Nibbler SEO audit for www.revenue.state.mn.us
Summary
Overall8.7
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility10.0
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience9.4
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing8.6
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology9.0
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 1 pages from this website at 16:55 on 20 Nov 2023 (GMT).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (read more)
- 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. (read more)
- Ensure your web server returns a 404 HTTP status code for error pages. (read more)
Analytics0.0
0% of pages use analytics
No Analytics Solution
- None of this website is using any recognised analytics software. It is still possible to gather a great deal of information from webserver logs, however complete visitor analysis requires client-side Javascript or an image not found here.
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics.
- Note that this test can only detect recognised analytics solutions. If an analytics solution is new, obscure or used in a non-standard way (e.g. it has been customised) it may not be detected.
Images7.2
80% of images have a clearly defined size
3 images are being resized by the browser
- Some images (20.0%) 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
Image URL Format Page URL www.revenue.state.mn.us/.../logo.svg unknown www.revenue.state.mn.us/ www.revenue.state.mn.us/.../logo-print.jpg jpg www.revenue.state.mn.us/
- 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.
- One image is not in a web-friendly format.
- Make sure all images on this website are JPEG, PNG, SVG or GIF format.
- 3 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.
Server behaviour7.4
404 page
Compression
- This website does not return a 404 error HTTP status code for missing pages. This is bad because search engines like Google might mistake this for a real page of content.
- Ensure your web server returns a 404 HTTP status code for error pages.
- This website was served with GZIP encoding. This is very good because it reduces the loading time of a web page.
- This website uses a temporary (HTTP 302) redirect from http://revenue.state.mn.us to http://www.revenue.state.mn.us. This is OK, but a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect is considered best practice.
- If possible, change the temporary redirect to a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect.
Amount of content9.2
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 672 words per page. The amount of content on a website has been shown to correlate with its search engine ranking.
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
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.
Headings10.0
- 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.
Page headings detail
| URL | Heading | Level |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | Minnesota Department of Revenue | H1 |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | Working together to fund the future for all of Minnesota | H2 |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | Become a volunteer! | H2 |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | Direct Income Tax Rebates - Update | H2 |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | Come Work With Us | H2 |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | Top Tasks | H2 |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | Featured Video | H2 |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | Subscribe to email updates | H2 |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | News | H2 |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | Email UsClose | H2 |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | Email Us | H2 |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | Connect With Us | H2 |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | Get Email Updates | H2 |
Internal links10.0
- Every link tested appears to be well defined. This is good because well defined links help SEO and aid accessibility.
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Minnesota Department of Revenue | Minnesota Department of Revenue
www.revenue.state.mn.us:443/
The Minnesota Department of Revenue website provides a range of information for taxpayers, tax professionals, local governments, and other customers.
- 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.revenue.state.mn.us/ | description | The Minnesota Department of Revenue website provides a range of information for taxpayers, tax professionals, local governments, and other customers. |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | generator | Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org) |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | mobileoptimized | width |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | handheldfriendly | true |
| www.revenue.state.mn.us/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
Printability10.0
100% of pages are optimised for printing
- All of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).