Nibbler SEO audit for www.usgwarchives.net
Summary
Overall6.0
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility6.3
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience5.8
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing6.5
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology6.3
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 22:38 on 19 Sep 2023 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect. (read more)
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (read more)
- Define meaningful headings for all webpages. This is likely to help this website's search engine placement and assist visitors in navigating content. (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.
Printability0.0
0% of pages are optimised for printing
- 5 pages of this website do not appear to be optimised for printing (using CSS).
- Add printable stylesheets for all pages, wherever possible. In most cases, websites can share printable stylesheets over many or all pages, as with screen-based stylesheets.
Print optimised pages
Page Print www.usgwarchives.net/ Not detected usgwarchives.net/search/searcharchives.html Not detected usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm Not detected usgwarchives.net/ak/akfiles.htm Not detected usgwarchives.net/az/azfiles.htm Not detected
- Add printable stylesheets for all pages, wherever possible. In most cases, websites can share printable stylesheets over many or all pages, as with screen-based stylesheets.
Headings1.0
- A large number (40.0%) of pages do not use defined headings. This means that users and search engines may find it harder to determine the content of this website's pages. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimisation.
- Define meaningful headings for all webpages. This is likely to help this website's search engine placement and assist visitors in navigating content.
- 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
Meta tags1.2
- No pages were found to use the description tag. The description meta data is important as it appears on Google's search result pages.
- Make sure that all the pages of this website include a meta description. If you don't include one, Google will choose a sample of text from the page to appear in the search engine result. By including a meta description, you can control how your search engine result will appear.
Meta Tags (name attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm | author | Carolyn Golowka |
| usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm | keywords | Alabama Genealogy, Alabama Bibles, Alabama Churches, Alabama Cemeteries, Alabama Maps, Alabama Military, Alabama Tax Records, Alabama Land Records, Alabama Deeds, Alabama Census, Alabama Counties, Alabama Biographies, Alabama Newspapers, Alabama Tombstones, Alabama Vital Records, Alabama Marriage Records, Alabama Birth Records, Alabama Death Records, Alabama Social Security, Alabama Archives, Alabama Pictures, Alabama Photos, Alabama Obituaries, Alabama Court Records, Alabama History |
| usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm | generator | Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0 |
| usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm | generator | Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0 |
| usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm | generator | Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0 |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.usgwarchives.net/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm | Content-Type | text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 |
| usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm | Content-Type | text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 |
| usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm | Content-Type | text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 |
| usgwarchives.net/ak/akfiles.htm | Content-Type | text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 |
Freshness2.3
Last updated May 11, 2022
- It looks like this website was last updated on Wednesday, 11 May 2022. This is bad because visitors may dismiss this website as outdated. Websites that are not updated regularly are also spidered by search engines less often.
- Consider updating this website regularly with new content.
- 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
Mobile3.0
- None of this website appears to be fully optimised for viewing on a mobile or tablet (using CSS media queries). It is important to make sure your content can be viewed easily across a wide range of devices as a growing percentage of web browsing is now done on phones and tablets.
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Device optimised pages
Page Mobile Tablet Viewport www.usgwarchives.net/ Not detected Not detected Not detected usgwarchives.net/search/searcharchives.html Not detected Not detected Not detected usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm Not detected Not detected Not detected usgwarchives.net/ak/akfiles.htm Not detected Not detected Not detected usgwarchives.net/az/azfiles.htm Not detected Not detected Not detected
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.
URL format5.2
4 URLs are less than ideal
- 4 URLs include a file extension.
- Avoid use of file extensions wherever possible. File extensions appear at the end of web addresses, and have several negative effects. They make the address harder to remember or type (particularly for non-technical users), and can reveal the underlying technology of the website making it very slightly more vulnerable to hackers. They also tie the implementation of the website to a specific technology, which can make subsequent migration of URLs difficult. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
Page extensions
- Avoid use of file extensions wherever possible. File extensions appear at the end of web addresses, and have several negative effects. They make the address harder to remember or type (particularly for non-technical users), and can reveal the underlying technology of the website making it very slightly more vulnerable to hackers. They also tie the implementation of the website to a specific technology, which can make subsequent migration of URLs difficult. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
Server behaviour8.2
404 page
Compression
- This website handles missing pages correctly by sending a 404 HTTP status code.
- This website was served with GZIP encoding. This is very good because it reduces the loading time of a web page.
- There is duplicate content on http://usgwarchives.net and http://www.usgwarchives.net. This is bad, as technically they are classed as two different websites. Search engines may lower a website's rank if they find the same content on two different URLs.
- Choose one domain that you would like to use and then set a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect to forward users who visit the other.
Amount of content8.3
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 1,459 words per page. The amount of content on a website has been shown to correlate with its search engine ranking.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| www.usgwarchives.net/ | 4922 | 718 |
| usgwarchives.net/search/searcharchives.html | 662 | 89 |
| usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm | 3914 | 570 |
| usgwarchives.net/ak/akfiles.htm | 33700 | 5707 |
| usgwarchives.net/az/azfiles.htm | 1350 | 209 |
Images9.6
3% of images have a clearly defined size
13 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (97.0%) 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.
- 13 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 images 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.
Internal links9.9
- One link is 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 text to benefit search engine optimisation.
Weak link text
Link URL Link text Page URL www.usgwarchives.net/al/contacts.htm Click here usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor text to benefit search engine optimisation.
- 3 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.
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
Popularity10.0
10816Estimated monthly organic visitors
- This website appears to have a high number of monthly website visits each month
Source: Ahrefs
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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