Nibbler SEO audit for blog.cardboardcities.co.uk
Summary
Overall7.7
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.1
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Experience6.9
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
The following tests contribute to this score:
Marketing6.2
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 21:44 on 23 Apr 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider updating this website regularly with new content. (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)
- Consider the amount of text on this website and increase it if appropriate. (read more)
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 blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ Not detected blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/blog/ Not detected blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ Not detected blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ Not detected blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ 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 | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ |
Freshness0.3
Last updated August 17, 2018
- It looks like this website was last updated on Friday, 17 August 2018. 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
| Date | File | Source |
| 20/03/2017 | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/.../about-me.png | Last modified header |
| 17/08/2018 | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/.../icons8-cut-100-e1534540907589.png | Last modified header |
| 20/03/2017 | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/.../cardboardcities-collage-header.png | Last modified header |
Meta tags5.2
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Collages, creativity and colour - Cardboardcities - by Laura Redburn
blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/
I'm Laura. I live in Cardiff and make colourful, minimal collages. I also blog about my illustration work, photography, books, and day to day life...
- All pages include at least some metadata, but only 40.0% 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.
Pages with no meta description
- 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 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ | robots | index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ | description | I'm Laura. I live in Cardiff and make colourful, minimal collages. I also blog about my illustration work, photography, books, and day to day life... |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ | twitter:site | @cardboardcities |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/blog/ | viewport | width=device-width |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/blog/ | robots | max-image-preview:large, noindex, follow |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ | robots | index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ | description | UK based creative lifestyle blog about illustration, colour and photography as well as other themed posts. get in touch for reviews and sponsored posts. |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ | twitter:site | @cardboardcities |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ | twitter:label1 | Estimated reading time |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ | twitter:data1 | 2 minutes |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ | robots | index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ | twitter:site | @cardboardcities |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ | robots | index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ | twitter:card | summary_large_image |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ | twitter:site | @cardboardcities |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/blog/ | Content-Type | text/html; charset=UTF-8 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge |
Amount of content6.3
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 275 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.
- One page of this website has very little content (20 words or less).
- Ensure all pages have a sufficient amount of content.
Amount of content discovered
| Page | Characters | Words |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ | 598 | 96 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/blog/ | 94 | 15 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ | 3056 | 492 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ | 2302 | 381 |
| blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ | 2287 | 389 |
Headings6.9
- A significant amount (20.0%) 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 headings (2.0%) were found to be empty, or incorrectly defined. Empty or invalid headings are of no value to search engines and make a website less accessible.
- Make sure all headings have content which is relevant to the page of content.
Page headings detail
Server behaviour7.6
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.
- One page of this website returns page content with or without a trailing slash on its URL. 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.
- 3 of the pages of this website return page content with or without a trailing slash on their URLs, but they use a canonical tag to denote the correct version. This is ideal, as search engines will know which version to index.
- This test is not applicable as this website appears to be on a subdomain.
Analytics8.0
80% of pages use analytics
Multiple Analytics Solutions
- 80.0% of this website is using some form of analytics software but 1 pages have no analytics. It is still possible to gather a great deal of information for the other 1 of pages from webserver logs, however complete visitor analysis requires client-side Javascript or an image not found here.
- Consider adding your analytics solution to the pages which aren't currently monitored.
- 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.
Analytics Software Found
| Software Name |
| Google Analytics |
Mobile8.6
- Most pages (80.0%) 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 blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ Detected Detected Detected blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/blog/ Not detected Not detected Detected blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ Detected Detected Detected blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ Detected Detected Detected blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ Detected Detected 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
| Media | Min width | Max width | CSS file |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/sponsor/ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ |
| only screen | - | 960px | blog.cardboardcities.co.uk/category/.../ |
Images8.8
31% of images have a clearly defined size
4 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (69.0%) 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.
- 4 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 links9.8
- One link has no text describing its 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.
Empty link text
- 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.
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.
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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