Nibbler SEO audit for www.spiceolife.ie
Summary
Overall7.7
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility8.3
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience5.0
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing6.1
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 4:50 PM on Mar 17, 2023 (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 updating this website regularly with new content. (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
- 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 optimized pages
Page Print www.spiceolife.ie/ Not detected www.spiceolife.ie/about-us Not detected www.spiceolife.ie/news Not detected www.spiceolife.ie/brands Not detected www.spiceolife.ie/product-sectors 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
| Media | Min width | Max width | CSS file |
| only screen | - | - | www.spiceolife.ie/.../jquery.fancybox.css?v=2.1.5 |
Freshness1.2
Last updated April 11, 2020
- It looks like this website was last updated on Saturday, April 11, 2020. This is bad because visitors may dismiss this website as outdated.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 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
Page Mobile Tablet Viewport www.spiceolife.ie/ Not detected Not detected Not detected www.spiceolife.ie/about-us Not detected Not detected Not detected www.spiceolife.ie/news Not detected Not detected Not detected www.spiceolife.ie/brands Not detected Not detected Not detected www.spiceolife.ie/product-sectors 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.
Media specific CSS detected
| Media | Min width | Max width | CSS file |
| only screen | - | - | www.spiceolife.ie/.../jquery.fancybox.css?v=2.1.5 |
| screen | - | - | www.spiceolife.ie/?css=site/screen.v.1463003055 |
| screen | - | - | www.spiceolife.ie/.../jMenu.jquery.css |
| screen | - | - | www.spiceolife.ie/?css=site/coda-slider.v.1384257889 |
| screen | - | - | www.spiceolife.ie/.../jquery.fancybox.css?v=2.1.5 |
Popularity5.0
136Estimated monthly organic visitors
- This website appears to have a good number of monthly website visits each month
Source: Ahrefs
Amount of content7.6
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 338 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.spiceolife.ie/ | 888 | 138 |
| www.spiceolife.ie/about-us | 2381 | 398 |
| www.spiceolife.ie/news | 1230 | 201 |
| www.spiceolife.ie/brands | 5261 | 870 |
| www.spiceolife.ie/product-sectors | 577 | 83 |
Server behavior8.4
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.
- 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://spiceolife.ie to http://www.spiceolife.ie. This is ideal.
Meta tags8.4
- All pages include at least some metadata, but only 80.0% of pages have a description meta 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.spiceolife.ie/ | description | |
| www.spiceolife.ie/ | keywords | food,food product development,research and development,flavour,spice,heat,sauces,marinades,prepared consumer foods,new product development,flavour enhancement,food modification,convenience foods,frozen foods,dry food blends,organic foods,ethnic foods |
| www.spiceolife.ie/about-us | description | Founded in 2000, Spice O' Life Limited is 15 years young. |
| www.spiceolife.ie/about-us | keywords | food,food product development,research and development,flavour,spice,heat,sauces,marinades,prepared consumer foods,new product development,flavour enhancement,food modification,convenience foods,frozen foods,dry food blends,organic foods,ethnic foods |
| www.spiceolife.ie/news | description | 2015 was another successful year for our clients and the company with over 10 awards ranging from The Great Taste Awards, Irish Quality Food and Drink Awards and Blas na hEireann. |
| www.spiceolife.ie/news | keywords | food,food product development,research and development,flavour,spice,heat,sauces,marinades,prepared consumer foods,new product development,flavour enhancement,food modification,convenience foods,frozen foods,dry food blends,organic foods,ethnic foods |
| www.spiceolife.ie/brands | description | Spice O'Life Limited has a number of licensed brands. Insanely Good is our Retail Brand. Presto is our Food Service Brand and Spice O' Life is our Craft Butchers Brand. |
| www.spiceolife.ie/brands | keywords | food,food product development,research and development,flavour,spice,heat,sauces,marinades,prepared consumer foods,new product development,flavour enhancement,food modification,convenience foods,frozen foods,dry food blends,organic foods,ethnic foods |
| www.spiceolife.ie/product-sectors | description | Our product sector caters to the following areas of the food industry, Craft Butchers, Food Service, Industrial Food Processors and Fish Shops. Simply click on the sector you are interested in. |
| www.spiceolife.ie/product-sectors | keywords | food,food product development,research and development,flavour,spice,heat,sauces,marinades,prepared consumer foods,new product development,flavour enhancement,food modification,convenience foods,frozen foods,dry food blends,organic foods,ethnic foods |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.spiceolife.ie/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.spiceolife.ie/about-us | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.spiceolife.ie/news | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.spiceolife.ie/brands | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
| www.spiceolife.ie/product-sectors | Content-Type | text/html; charset=utf-8 |
Images9.2
40% of images have a clearly defined size
10 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (60.0%) 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 faster.
- 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.
- 10 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.
Internal links9.6
- 2 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 optimization.
Weak link text
Link URL Link text Page URL www.spiceolife.ie/about-us Read more www.spiceolife.ie/ www.spiceolife.ie/brands Read more www.spiceolife.ie/
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor tag to benefit search engine optimization.
Analytics10.0
100% of pages use analytics
Multiple Analytics Solutions
- Every page in this website is using some form of analytics software. This is excellent and should allow for a complete analysis of visitor behavior.
Analytics Software Found
| Software Name |
| Google Analytics |
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
- 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
Incoming links10.0
1,658,969 pages link to this website
22,472 domains link to this website
- There are 1,658,969 pages on 22,472 domains linking to this website. The volume and quality of incoming links is known to influence a website's search engine ranking.
- To appear higher in search engine results, consider link building activity as a way to build your search ranking. Be careful though, because incoming links which are obviously artificial are likely to be detected by search engines and could have an adverse effect.
- Many of the domains that link to this website are hosted on servers with similar IP addresses. Search engines may ignore these incoming links or penalize this website's ranking as this behavior can be an indicator of artificial link building.
Source: Ahrefs
URL format10.0
Every URL is well written
- This website uses appropriate web addresses (URLs) throughout. This is excellent and will help search engine placement, usability and the marketability of this website.
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