Nibbler SEO audit for geology.com
Summary
Overall8.3
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.4
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience7.8
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing5.5
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology9.2
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 13:40 on 23 Apr 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider a leading website analytics solution, such as WebTrends or Google Analytics. (read more)
- Sign up for a Twitter account and make sure it is linked to from your site. (read more)
- 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. (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 geology.com/ Not detected geology.com/news.shtml Not detected geology.com/gemstones/ Not detected geology.com/minerals/ Not detected geology.com/rocks/ 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.
Mobile8.6
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone (using CSS media queries) but it is not optimised for tablet viewing. 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 tablet and consider adding tablet-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile and tablet visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Device optimised pages
Page Mobile Tablet Viewport geology.com/ Detected Not detected Detected geology.com/news.shtml Detected Not detected Detected geology.com/gemstones/ Detected Not detected Detected geology.com/minerals/ Detected Not detected Detected geology.com/rocks/ Detected Not detected Detected
- Check how the website looks using a tablet and consider adding tablet-only styling using media queries. Some websites employ other techniques for mobile and tablet visitors which we cannot currently detect.
Headings9.0
- 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.
- 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
| URL | Heading | Level |
| geology.com/ | Geology and Earth Science News and Information | H1 |
| geology.com/news.shtml | Geology and Earth Science News | H1 |
| geology.com/gemstones/ | Gemstones | H1 |
| geology.com/gemstones/ | Gemstone Menu | H2 |
| geology.com/gemstones/ | Author: Hobart M. King, PhD, GIA Graduate Gemologist | H4 |
| geology.com/minerals/ | What Are Minerals? | H1 |
| geology.com/minerals/ | Mineral Menu | H2 |
| geology.com/minerals/ | Minerals are materials that meet five requirements. They are: 1) naturally occurring, 2) inorganic, 3) solids, 4) with a definite chemical composition, and, 5) an ordered internal structure. | H5 |
| geology.com/rocks/ | Rocks: Igneous, Metamorphic and Sedimentary | H2 |
| geology.com/rocks/ | Rocks hold the history of the earth and the materials that will be used to build its future. | H5 |
Internal links9.6
- 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.nps.gov/orgs/.../submit-a-tip.htm click here geology.com/news.shtml
- Consider using descriptive words or phrases (e.g. 'News', 'September 2012 financial results') in your anchor text to benefit search engine optimisation.
- 21 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.
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.
Images9.8
10% of images have a clearly defined size
49 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (90.0%) 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.
- 49 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.
Server behaviour10.0
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 follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect between URLs with/without trailing slashes. This is ideal.
- This website follows the best practice of using a permanent (HTTP 301) redirect from http://www.geology.com to http://geology.com. This is ideal.
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
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Geology and Earth Science News, Articles, Photos, Maps and More
geology.com/
Geology.com is one of the world's leading portals to geology and Earth science news and information for rocks, minerals, gemstones, energy, volcanoes, earthquakes ...
- 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 URL | Name | Content |
| geology.com/ | description | Geology.com is one of the world's leading portals to geology and Earth science news and information for rocks, minerals, gemstones, energy, volcanoes, earthquakes, careers, geologic hazards, and more. |
| geology.com/ | google-site-verification | TL1y5uzatFugirp4NXyZhMnA63aYB7ig2hr2ELwK8rA |
| geology.com/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| geology.com/news.shtml | description | News about geology and earth science from around the world! |
| geology.com/news.shtml | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| geology.com/gemstones/ | description | Articles about gemstones written by a GIA Graduate Gemologist. Each article includes photos and information about the gem's physical properties and geologic origin. |
| geology.com/gemstones/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| geology.com/minerals/ | description | Photos and information about 80 common rock-forming, ore and gemstone minerals from around the world. |
| geology.com/minerals/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| geology.com/rocks/ | description | Photographs and information for a large collection of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks. Geology.com |
| geology.com/rocks/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| geology.com/ | Content-Language | en-US |
| geology.com/news.shtml | Content-Language | en-US |
| geology.com/gemstones/ | Content-Language | en-US |
| geology.com/minerals/ | Content-Language | en-US |
| geology.com/rocks/ | Content-Language | en-US |
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.
Amount of content10.0
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 2,311 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 |
| geology.com/ | 17432 | 2779 |
| geology.com/news.shtml | 21108 | 3378 |
| geology.com/gemstones/ | 16312 | 2601 |
| geology.com/minerals/ | 10155 | 1607 |
| geology.com/rocks/ | 7832 | 1192 |
Freshness10.0
Last updated April 22, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Monday, 22 April 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
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Nibbler tested the following pages
- https://geology.com/
- https://geology.com/news.shtml
- https://geology.com/gemstones/
- https://geology.com/minerals/
- https://geology.com/rocks/