Nibbler SEO audit for www.bcit.ca

Overall8.0

The overall score for this website.

Accessibility8.3

How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.

Experience5.6

How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.

Marketing5.8

How well marketed and popular the website is.

Technology8.1

How well designed and built the website is.

Nibbler tested a sample of 1 pages from this website at 5:09 AM on Mar 10, 2024 (GMT).

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 the amount of text on this website and increase it if appropriate. (read more)
  • Sign up for a Twitter account and make sure it is linked to from your site. (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.

Printability0.0

0% of pages are optimized for printing

  • One page of this website does 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 optimized pages

      PagePrint
      www.bcit.ca/Not detected

Mobile3.0

Mobile screenshot of www.bcit.caTablet screenshot of www.bcit.ca
  • None of this website appears to be optimized for viewing on a mobile or tablet (using CSS media queries). It is important to make sure your content is optimized 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 a tablet. Consider adding mobile-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile visitors which we cannot currently detect.

      Device optimized pages

      PageMobileTabletViewport
      www.bcit.ca/Not detectedNot detectedNot detected

Amount of content4.1

Rendering Chart...

  • This website has an average of 37 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

PageCharactersWords
www.bcit.ca/23537

Server behavior8.0

No404 page

YesCompression

  • 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.
  • This website was served with GZIP encoding. This is very good because it reduces the loading time of a web page.
  • This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://bcit.ca to http://www.bcit.ca. This is ideal.

Analytics10.0

100% of pages use analytics

Google Tag Manager

  • Every page in this website is using Google Tag Manager. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behavior.

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 optimization.

Headings10.0

bcit

  • All pages were found to use defined headings. This is excellent as it allows visitors and search engines to summarize the content of webpages quickly. Correctly defined headings aid accessibility and are particularly important for search engine optimization.

Page headings detail

URLHeadingLevel
www.bcit.ca/BCITH1

Images10.0

100% of images have a clearly defined size

No images are being resized by the browser

  • All images 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 faster.

Meta tags10.0

This is how this website will look in Google search listings:

BCIT – British Columbia Institute of Technology

www.bcit.ca/

British Columbia Institute of technology is BC's largest post-secondary institution. BCIT offers part-time and full-time courses and programs in technology, trades ...

  • 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 URLNameContent
www.bcit.ca/robotsnoindex,nofollow
www.bcit.ca/viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1
www.bcit.ca/fulltitleBCIT – British Columbia Institute of Technology
www.bcit.ca/classificationEducation
www.bcit.ca/keywordsbcit, british columbia institute of technology, post secondary education, technology education, trades education, business education, health education
www.bcit.ca/descriptionBritish Columbia Institute of technology is BC's largest post-secondary institution. BCIT offers part-time and full-time courses and programs in technology, trades, engineering, business, and health.
www.bcit.ca/viewportwidth=device-width, initial-scale=1

Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)

Page URLNameContent
www.bcit.ca/Pragmano-cache
www.bcit.ca/Expires-1
www.bcit.ca/CacheControlno-cache
www.bcit.ca/Content-Typetext/html; charset=utf-8
www.bcit.ca/X-UA-CompatibleIE=edge,chrome=1
www.bcit.ca/Pragmano-cache
www.bcit.ca/Expires-1
www.bcit.ca/CacheControlno-cache
www.bcit.ca/Content-Typetext/html; charset=utf-8

URL format10.0

Popularity10.0

92871Estimated monthly organic visitors

  • This website appears to have a high number of monthly website visits each month

Source: Ahrefs

Domain agei

  • Sorry, we cannot check the domain age of .ca websites.

Freshnessi

  • Sorry, we couldn't determine when this website was last updated. This is usually because its web server isn't reporting this information and we couldn't find enough other dates in the content of pages.

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