Nibbler SEO audit for www.youtube.com
Summary
Overall6.5
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility7.8
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience6.0
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing3.9
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology7.3
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 11:40 on 18 Apr 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (read more)
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and consider adding mobile and tablet styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect. (read more)
- 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. (read more)
Twitter0.0
This website does not appear to be associated with a Twitter account.
- This website did not contain a link to Twitter.
- Sign up for a Twitter account and make sure it is linked to from your site.
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.youtube.com/supported_browsers?next_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F Not detected www.youtube.com/t/terms Not detected www.youtube.com/t/contact_us Not detected www.youtube.com/t/terms_paidservice Not detected www.youtube.com/t/usage_paycontent 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.
Media specific CSS detected
Meta tags0.4
- 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 |
| www.youtube.com/supported_browsers?next_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no |
Mobile4.4
- Some pages (20.0%) of this website appear to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or tablet (using CSS media queries). It is important to make sure your content is optimised for a wide range of devices as a growing percentage of web browsing is done on phones and tablets.
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and consider adding mobile and tablet 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.youtube.com/supported_browsers?next_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F Detected Detected Detected www.youtube.com/t/terms Not detected Not detected Not detected www.youtube.com/t/contact_us Not detected Not detected Not detected www.youtube.com/t/terms_paidservice Not detected Not detected Not detected www.youtube.com/t/usage_paycontent Not detected Not detected Not detected
- Check how the website looks using a mobile and consider adding mobile and tablet styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Media specific CSS detected
URL format4.8
4 URLs are less than ideal
- 4 URLs are particularly hard to type or remember.
- Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs. URLs using unusual characters (such as semi-colons or underscores), long numerals or complex phrasing are very difficult for real people to use or exchange. They also tend to be less favoured by search engines. Wherever possible ensure web addresses are 'human readable' - i.e. they should be easy to read, remember and type. In particular, avoid the use of obscure characters (including the underscore, which is not widely understood by non-technical users, or particularly memorable) and long numerals, e.g. example.com/23857984325.
- 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.
Page titles8.0
80% of pages have defined titles
0% of page titles are weak
- One page does not specify a title. 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.
- Make sure that all pages have a title in the head of the document.
Page titles
| Page title | Notes |
| No Title | Missing |
| Terms of Service | OK |
| Contact Us | OK |
| YouTube Paid Service Terms of Service | OK |
| YouTube Paid Service Usage Rules | OK |
Amount of content8.1
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 3,128 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.youtube.com/supported_browsers?next_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2F | 188 | 31 |
| www.youtube.com/t/terms | 23583 | 3826 |
| www.youtube.com/t/contact_us | 2083 | 335 |
| www.youtube.com/t/terms_paidservice | 68179 | 10851 |
| www.youtube.com/t/usage_paycontent | 3491 | 596 |
Server behaviour8.3
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.
- 4 of the pages of this website return page content with or without a trailing slash on their 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.
- Adding or removing a trailing slash to one of the URLs of this site returns an error page (404). This is OK as no content is being duplicated, but visitors might try browsing to the pages of this website with or without a trailing slash. Ideally, the alternate URL should redirect to the correct page.
- Add a 301 redirect from the other version to the canonical URL.
Unhandled alternate URLs
- Add a 301 redirect from the other version to the canonical URL.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://youtube.com to http://www.youtube.com. This is ideal.
Images9.0
50% of images have a clearly defined size
5 images are being resized by the browser
- Some images (50.0%) 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.
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
Internal links10.0
- Every link tested appears to be well defined. This is good because well defined links help SEO and aid accessibility.
Freshness10.0
Last updated February 1, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Thursday, 1 February 2024. 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
| Date | File | Source |
| 15/12/2023 | www.youtube.com/t/terms | Body text |
| 18/11/2020 | www.youtube.com/t/terms | Body text |
| 01/02/2024 | www.youtube.com/t/terms_paidservice | Body text |
| 16/10/2019 | www.youtube.com/img/.../opera.png | Last modified header |
| 25/06/2023 | www.youtube.com/img/.../chrome.png | Last modified header |
| 12/02/2020 | www.youtube.com/img/.../edgium.png | Last modified header |
| 25/06/2023 | www.youtube.com/img/.../firefox.png | Last modified header |
| 16/10/2019 | www.youtube.com/img/.../dinosaur.png | Last modified header |
| 16/10/2019 | www.youtube.com/.../yt_logo_rgb_light.png | Last modified header |
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