Nibbler SEO audit for www.egerton.ac.ke
Summary
Overall8.8
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility8.9
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience8.9
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing9.0
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology8.0
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 12:23 on 19 Sep 2023 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Ensure that headings are defined in a semantically correct way, i.e. always start with a H1 tag. This is used to summarise the page content. Further tags (H2, H3, H4 etc) are meant to summarise and partition sections within the content. (read more)
- Enable GZIP compression on your web server or in your application. (read more)
- Provide all descriptive information about a link within the anchor itself as the title attribute is not used by screen readers. (read more)
Server behaviour5.4
404 page
Compression
- This website handles missing pages correctly by sending a 404 HTTP status code.
- This website was not served using GZIP encoding. GZIP compression is widely supported and reduces the load time of a web page.
- Enable GZIP compression on your web server or in your application.
- This website returns page content with or without a trailing slash on the URLs. Search engines might see these as separate pages with duplicate content which they could penalise for.
- Use a 301 redirect or a canonical meta tag to force search engines to see the correct version.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://egerton.ac.ke to http://www.egerton.ac.ke. This is ideal.
Headings6.0
- All pages were found to use defined headings. This is excellent as it allows visitors and search engines to summarise the content of webpages quickly. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimisation.
- Some pages did not define headings correctly. The H1 tag should be used for the most top-level heading, with H2 being used for sub-headings and H3 for further sub-headings and so-on. Not conforming to this convention may confuse visitors.
- Ensure that headings are defined in a semantically correct way, i.e. always start with a H1 tag. This is used to summarise the page content. Further tags (H2, H3, H4 etc) are meant to summarise and partition sections within the content.
Page headings detail
Amount of content7.5
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 370 words per page. The amount of content on a website has been shown to correlate with its search engine ranking.
- Consider the amount of text on this website and increase it if appropriate.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/ | 8741 | 1077 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../remind?Itemid=101 | 651 | 86 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/pass-reset | 906 | 122 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../undergraduate-admission | 3151 | 454 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/students-admissions/downloads | 903 | 109 |
Images8.3
16% of images have a clearly defined size
5 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (84.0%) don't have defined sizes using width and height attributes in the HTML. These attributes are optional, but strongly recommended as they help the browser arrange the page more quickly.
- Add width and height attributes to all image tags. The width and height you specify should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use CSS.
Non Explicitly Sized Images
- Add width and height attributes to all image tags. The width and height you specify should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use CSS.
- 5 images are being stretched in the browser.
- The width and height you specify in an image tag should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use the CSS width and height properties.
Stretched Images
- The width and height you specify in an image tag should be the same as the source image. If you want to resize an image in the browser, use the CSS width and height properties.
- 1 image on this website could not be downloaded. Broken images may cause the website to display incorrectly for visitors.
- Check any images which could not be downloaded and fix them if necessary.
Unavailable images
Image URL HTTP status code Page URL www.egerton.ac.ke/.../tb.php...&zc=1 403 www.egerton.ac.ke/.../tb.php...&zc=1 403 www.egerton.ac.ke/.../tb.php...&zc=1 403
- Check any images which could not be downloaded and fix them if necessary.
Internal links8.3
- Additional information has been provided for one link by using a title attribute. There is a common misconception that this benefits screen reader users. All useful text should be in the anchor itself.
- Provide all descriptive information about a link within the anchor itself as the title attribute is not used by screen readers.
Weak title text
Link URL Link text Page URL www.egerton.ac.ke/student-life-at-eu read more www.egerton.ac.ke/
- Provide all descriptive information about a link within the anchor itself as the title attribute is not used by screen readers.
- 5 links are weakly described. Common weak links include 'click here' and 'read more'. These links fail to describe the content the link points to.
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation.
Weak link text
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimisation.
- 60 links have no text describing their destination. Links on a page should describe their destination for the benefit of both screen readers and search engine spiders.
- Add meaningful anchor text that describes the link's destination. If the link contains an image, ensure you have provided alt text.
Empty link text
- Add meaningful anchor text that describes the link's destination. If the link contains an image, ensure you have provided alt text.
URL format8.8
1 URLs are less than ideal
- 1 URLs are 'dirty'. 'Dirty' URLs include one or more parameters after a question mark (e.g. www.example.com/?pagename=news), instead of a clean URL (e.g. www.example.com/news). Dirty URLs should generally be avoided wherever possible - they are almost impossible for human beings to remember, may expose the technology of the website to hackers and can confuse search engines among other problems. Their use is sometimes necessary for specific applications, and acceptable in small amounts.
- Remove or reduce the number of query parameters in URLs. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
- 20.0% of URLs include an ID query parameter (e.g. www.example.com?sessionid=1234).
- Avoid use of any query parameter ending in id, e.g. 'sessionid;' Google explicitly states that it will not include pages with this format in their index. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
Analytics10.0
100% of pages use analytics
Google Analytics
- Every page in this website is using Google Analytics. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behaviour.
Page titles10.0
100% of pages have defined titles
0% of page titles are weak
- All pages were found to use page titles appropriately. Page titles appear in search results and at the top of the browser's window when visiting the site. Appropriate page titles are particularly important for search engine optimisation.
Page titles
| Page title | Notes |
| Egerton University | OK |
| Egerton University | OK |
| User Password Reset | OK |
| Undergraduate Admission | OK |
| Downloads | OK |
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Egerton University
www.egerton.ac.ke/
Transforming Lives through Quality Education.
- All pages were found to include a meta description. This is good because search engines (like Google) show this text in search result pages.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/ | google-site-verification | G_ytdMUIiAsF00bbg8tbuA06RTlBhU17qeNbhuqrSws |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/ | keywords | Egerton University, Kenya, Education, Degree Programmes, Kenya Universities, Njoro, Diploma, Masters Programmes, PhD, Agriculture, Lord Egerton Castle, Nakuru, Nakuru Universities, Rift Valley, Nakuru County, CUE, KUCCPS, HELB, Ministry of Education, NTCC, NCC, Nakuru Town Campus, Nairobi City Campus, Kenya, Nairobi, Education, Higher Learning |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/ | robots | max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/ | description | Transforming Lives through Quality Education. |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/ | twitter:card | summary |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/ | twitter:site | Egerton University |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../remind?Itemid=101 | google-site-verification | G_ytdMUIiAsF00bbg8tbuA06RTlBhU17qeNbhuqrSws |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../remind?Itemid=101 | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../remind?Itemid=101 | keywords | Egerton University, Kenya, Education, Degree Programmes, Kenya Universities, Njoro, Diploma, Masters Programmes, PhD, Agriculture, Lord Egerton Castle, Nakuru, Nakuru Universities, Rift Valley, Nakuru County, CUE, KUCCPS, HELB, Ministry of Education, NTCC, NCC, Nakuru Town Campus, Nairobi City Campus, Kenya, Nairobi, Education, Higher Learning, Staff Profile, eProfile,egerton student portal,student portal,portal,Peter Inziano, 19495, Vice-Chancellor, Chancellor |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../remind?Itemid=101 | robots | index,follow |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../remind?Itemid=101 | description | Egerton University is the premier Agricultural public University in Kenya. It has however, broadened to other areas of research and teaching such as Natural resources, Applied sciences, Education, Computer science, Medical sciences, Education, Engineering & Technology, Law and Business studies |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/pass-reset | google-site-verification | G_ytdMUIiAsF00bbg8tbuA06RTlBhU17qeNbhuqrSws |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/pass-reset | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/pass-reset | keywords | Egerton University, Kenya, Education, Degree Programmes, Kenya Universities, Njoro, Diploma, Masters Programmes, PhD, Agriculture, Lord Egerton Castle, Nakuru, Nakuru Universities, Rift Valley, Nakuru County, CUE, KUCCPS, HELB, Ministry of Education, NTCC, NCC, Nakuru Town Campus, Nairobi City Campus, Kenya, Nairobi, Education, Higher Learning, Staff Profile, eProfile,egerton student portal,student portal,portal,Peter Inziano, 19495, Vice-Chancellor, Chancellor |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/pass-reset | robots | index,follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/pass-reset | description | Egerton University is the premier Agricultural public University in Kenya. It has however, broadened to other areas of research and teaching such as Natural resources, Applied sciences, Education, Computer science, Medical sciences, Education, Engineering & Technology, Law and Business studies |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../undergraduate-admission | google-site-verification | G_ytdMUIiAsF00bbg8tbuA06RTlBhU17qeNbhuqrSws |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../undergraduate-admission | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../undergraduate-admission | keywords | Egerton University, Kenya, Education, Degree Programmes, Kenya Universities, Njoro, Diploma, Masters Programmes, PhD, Agriculture, Lord Egerton Castle, Nakuru, Nakuru Universities, Rift Valley, Nakuru County, CUE, KUCCPS, HELB, Ministry of Education, NTCC, NCC, Nakuru Town Campus, Nairobi City Campus, Kenya, Nairobi, Education, Higher Learning, Staff Profile, eProfile,egerton student portal,student portal,portal,Peter Inziano, 19495, Vice-Chancellor, Chancellor |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../undergraduate-admission | robots | max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../undergraduate-admission | description | Egerton University is the premier Agricultural public University in Kenya. It has however, broadened to other areas of research and teaching such as Natural resources, Applied sciences, Education, Computer science, Medical sciences, Education, Engineering & Technology, Law and Business studies |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../undergraduate-admission | twitter:card | summary |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../undergraduate-admission | twitter:site | Egerton University |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/students-admissions/downloads | google-site-verification | G_ytdMUIiAsF00bbg8tbuA06RTlBhU17qeNbhuqrSws |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/students-admissions/downloads | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/students-admissions/downloads | keywords | Egerton University, Kenya, Education, Degree Programmes, Kenya Universities, Njoro, Diploma, Masters Programmes, PhD, Agriculture, Lord Egerton Castle, Nakuru, Nakuru Universities, Rift Valley, Nakuru County, CUE, KUCCPS, HELB, Ministry of Education, NTCC, NCC, Nakuru Town Campus, Nairobi City Campus, Kenya, Nairobi, Education, Higher Learning, Staff Profile, eProfile,egerton student portal,student portal,portal,Peter Inziano, 19495, Vice-Chancellor, Chancellor |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/students-admissions/downloads | robots | max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/students-admissions/downloads | description | Egerton University is the premier Agricultural public University in Kenya. It has however, broadened to other areas of research and teaching such as Natural resources, Applied sciences, Education, Computer science, Medical sciences, Education, Engineering & Technology, Law and Business studies |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/students-admissions/downloads | twitter:card | summary |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/students-admissions/downloads | twitter:site | Egerton University |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/ | content-type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../remind?Itemid=101 | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../remind?Itemid=101 | content-type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/pass-reset | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/pass-reset | content-type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../undergraduate-admission | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/.../undergraduate-admission | content-type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/students-admissions/downloads | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| www.egerton.ac.ke/students-admissions/downloads | content-type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
Printability10.0
100% of pages are optimised for printing
- All of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).
Media specific CSS detected
Popularity10.0
15353Estimated monthly organic visitors
- This website appears to have a high number of monthly website visits each month
Source: Ahrefs
Freshness10.0
Last updated September 19, 2023
- It looks like this website was last updated on Tuesday, 19 September 2023. This is good because visitors perceive up-to-date websites as more credible. Websites that are updated regularly are also spidered by search engines more often.
- To find this information we used the last modified dates reported by this website's server in addition to looking for dates written on each page.
All dates found
Twitteri
This website does not appear to be associated with a Twitter account.
- There was a problem checking the Twitter accounts associated with this website.
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