Nibbler SEO audit for www.ulaval.ca
Summary
Overall9.4
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility9.7
How accessible the website is to mobile and disabled users.
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Experience9.3
How satisfying the website is likely to be for users.
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Marketing9.5
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology9.0
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 00:14 on 6 Apr 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider shortening long anchor text. (read more)
- Enable GZIP compression on your web server or in your application. (read more)
- 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. (read more)
Server behaviour7.0
404 page
Compression
- This website handles missing pages correctly by sending a 404 HTTP status code.
- This website was not served using GZIP encoding. GZIP compression is widely supported and reduces the load time of a web page.
- Enable GZIP compression on your web server or in your application.
- 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://ulaval.ca to http://www.ulaval.ca. This is ideal.
Internal links8.2
- 12 links use text that is too long. Links should describe what they link to briefly. Linking a long block of text usually indicates an attempt to trick search engines into ranking those keywords highly (a strategy which does not work). Long linked blocks of text are also harder for people to scan.
- Consider shortening long anchor text.
Overly long link text
Link URL Link text Page URL www.ulaval.ca/.../visite-a-la-carte-37?return_node=31& 5 avril 2024 Visite à la carte Visites à la carte Rencontrez ULaval Futurs étudiants Québec www.ulaval.ca/ www.ulaval.ca/.../debut-de-la-periode-dinscription-a-la-session-dautomne-2024?return_node=31& 8 avril 2024 Début de la période d'inscription à la session d’automne 2024 Dates importantes Calendrier universitaire www.ulaval.ca/ www.ulaval.ca/.../comprendre-et-mieux-vivre-avec-le-stress?return_node=31& 8 avril 2024 Comprendre et mieux vivre avec le stress Gestion du stress Webinaire www.ulaval.ca/ www.ulaval.ca/.../conseil-universitaire-seance-ordinaire-5?return_node=31& 9 avril 2024 Conseil universitaire – Séance ordinaire Administration et direction Calendrier universitaire www.ulaval.ca/ www.ulaval.ca/.../debut-de-la-periode-dinscription-a-la-session-dautomne-2024?return_node=25804& 8 avril 2024 Début de la période d'inscription à la session d’automne 2024 Dates importantes Calendrier universitaire www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels www.ulaval.ca/.../conseil-universitaire-seance-ordinaire-5?return_node=25804& 9 avril 2024 Conseil universitaire – Séance ordinaire Administration et direction Calendrier universitaire www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels www.ulaval.ca/.../conseil-dadministration-seance-ordinaire-2?return_node=25804& 17 avril 2024 Conseil d'administration – Séance ordinaire Administration et direction Calendrier universitaire www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels www.ulaval.ca/.../fin-de-la-session-dhiver-2024?return_node=25804& 26 avril 2024 Fin de la session d’hiver 2024 Dates importantes Calendrier universitaire www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels www.ulaval.ca/.../visite-a-la-carte-37?return_node=6& 5 avril 2024 Visite à la carte Visites à la carte Rencontrez ULaval Futurs étudiants Québec www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants www.ulaval.ca/.../visite-a-la-carte-39?return_node=6& 19 avril 2024 Visite à la carte Visites à la carte Rencontrez ULaval Futurs étudiants Québec www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants www.ulaval.ca/.../visite-a-la-carte-41?return_node=6& 3 mai 2024 Visite à la carte Visites à la carte Rencontrez ULaval Futurs étudiants Québec www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants www.ulaval.ca/.../visite-a-la-carte-43?return_node=6& 17 mai 2024 Visite à la carte Visites à la carte Rencontrez ULaval Futurs étudiants Québec www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants
- Consider shortening long anchor text.
- 12 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.
Amount of content9.1
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 1,135 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.ulaval.ca/ | 4110 | 514 |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | 17412 | 2211 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | 16058 | 2124 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | 2799 | 355 |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | 3727 | 471 |
Images9.4
29% of images have a clearly defined size
9 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (71.0%) 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.
- 9 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.
Headings9.8
- 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 headings (4.0%) 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
Mobile10.0
- All of this website appears to be optimised for viewing on a mobile phone or a tablet.
Media specific CSS detected
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 behaviour.
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.
Meta tags10.0
This is how this website will look in Google search listings:
Université Laval
www.ulaval.ca/
L'Université Laval, située dans la ville de Québec au Canada, est reconnue à l'international pour l'excellence de sa formation aux 3 cycles et de sa recherche ...
- 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 |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | theme-color | #e30513 |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | description | L'Université Laval, située dans la ville de Québec au Canada, est reconnue à l'international pour l'excellence de sa formation aux 3 cycles et de sa recherche scientifique |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | geo.placename | Ville de Québec |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | geo.region | CA-QC |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | robots | noodp |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | facebook-domain-verification | lg9t43woe134l4gfmrtmooz2at0awl |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | generator | Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org) |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | mobileoptimized | width |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | handheldfriendly | true |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | theme-color | #e30513 |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | description | Consultez les coordonnées pour joindre l’Université Laval et accédez aux heures d’ouverture des bureaux, facultés et services sur le campus. |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | geo.placename | Ville de Québec |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | geo.region | CA-QC |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | robots | noodp |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | facebook-domain-verification | lg9t43woe134l4gfmrtmooz2at0awl |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | generator | Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org) |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | mobileoptimized | width |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | handheldfriendly | true |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | theme-color | #e30513 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | description | Trouvez les ressources pour vous soutenir dans votre parcours à l’UL et découvrez tout ce qu’offre la vie étudiante pour maintenir un juste équilibre. |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | geo.placename | Ville de Québec |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | geo.region | CA-QC |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | robots | noodp |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | facebook-domain-verification | lg9t43woe134l4gfmrtmooz2at0awl |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | generator | Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org) |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | mobileoptimized | width |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | handheldfriendly | true |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | theme-color | #e30513 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | description | Études 234 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | geo.placename | Ville de Québec |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | geo.region | CA-QC |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | robots | noodp |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | facebook-domain-verification | lg9t43woe134l4gfmrtmooz2at0awl |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | generator | Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org) |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | mobileoptimized | width |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | handheldfriendly | true |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | theme-color | #e30513 |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | description | Choisissez l'Université Laval pour ses professeurs de renommée mondiale, ses programmes de qualité aux 3 cycles d'études et son milieu de recherche dynamique. |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | geo.placename | Ville de Québec |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | geo.region | CA-QC |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | robots | noodp |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | facebook-domain-verification | lg9t43woe134l4gfmrtmooz2at0awl |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | generator | Drupal 10 (https://www.drupal.org) |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | mobileoptimized | width |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | handheldfriendly | true |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | viewport | width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0 |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/nous-joindre | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudiants-actuels | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/etudes | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.ulaval.ca/futurs-etudiants | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
Printability10.0
100% of pages are optimised for printing
- All of this website appears to be optimised for printing (using CSS).
Media specific CSS detected
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.
Freshness10.0
Last updated April 4, 2024
- It looks like this website was last updated on Thursday, 4 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
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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