Nibbler SEO audit for www.christianbook.com
Summary
Overall8.8
The overall score for this website.
Accessibility8.6
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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Marketing9.4
How well marketed, and popular the website is.
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Technology8.3
How well designed and built the website is.
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Nibbler tested a sample of 5 pages from this website at 10:12 on 5 May 2024 (BST).
Top priorities for website improvement
- Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs. URLs using unusual characters (such as semi-colons or underscores), long numerals or complex phrasing are very difficult for real people to use or exchange. They also tend to be less favoured by search engines. Wherever possible ensure web addresses are 'human readable' - i.e. they should be easy to read, remember and type. In particular, avoid the use of obscure characters (including the underscore, which is not widely understood by non-technical users, or particularly memorable) and long numerals, e.g. example.com/23857984325. (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)
- Having mobile optimised HTML is good, but the best way of adapting a website for different screen sizes is to use CSS media queries. (read more)
Printability2.0
20% of pages are optimised for printing
- 4 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 www.christianbook.com/ Not detected www.christianbook.com/?navcat=toplogo_b Not detected www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=topaccount_b Not detected www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=accmenu_account Not detected www.christianbook.com/.../wishlist?event=accmenu_wishlist Optimised
- 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
URL format3.6
4 URLs are less than ideal
- 4 URLs are particularly hard to type or remember.
- Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs. URLs using unusual characters (such as semi-colons or underscores), long numerals or complex phrasing are very difficult for real people to use or exchange. They also tend to be less favoured by search engines. Wherever possible ensure web addresses are 'human readable' - i.e. they should be easy to read, remember and type. In particular, avoid the use of obscure characters (including the underscore, which is not widely understood by non-technical users, or particularly memorable) and long numerals, e.g. example.com/23857984325.
- 4 URLs are 'dirty'. 'Dirty' URLs include one or more parameters after a question mark (e.g. www.example.com/?pagename=news), instead of a clean URL (e.g. www.example.com/news). Dirty URLs should generally be avoided wherever possible - they are almost impossible for human beings to remember, may expose the technology of the website to hackers and can confuse search engines among other problems. Their use is sometimes necessary for specific applications, and acceptable in small amounts.
- Remove or reduce the number of query parameters in URLs. Consider URL rewriting as an effective and transparent means of creating appropriate URLs.
Mobile8.6
- This website delivers a mobile optimised version of the HTML when accessed on a phone. This is good because visitors on a mobile device will be able to access this website easily.
- Having mobile optimised HTML is good, but the best way of adapting a website for different screen sizes is to use CSS media queries.
Media specific CSS detected
Internal links8.7
- 40 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.
Server behaviour8.8
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://christianbook.com to http://www.christianbook.com. This is ideal.
Amount of content8.9
Rendering Chart...
- This website has an average of 669 words per page. The amount of content on a website has been shown to correlate with its search engine ranking.
Amount of content discovered
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
Images9.6
13% of images have a clearly defined size
18 images are being resized by the browser
- Most images (87.0%) 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.
- One image is not in a web-friendly format.
- Make sure all images on this website are JPEG, PNG, SVG or GIF format.
- 18 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.
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 behaviour.
Analytics Software Found
| Software Name |
| Google Analytics |
| Google Tag Manager |
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:
Christian Books, Bibles, Gifts & more. - Christianbook.com
www.christianbook.com/
Leading seller of Christian books, Bibles, gifts, homeschool products, church supplies, DVDs, toys and more. Everything Christian for Less for over 40 years.
- 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.christianbook.com/ | description | Leading seller of Christian books, Bibles, gifts, homeschool products, church supplies, DVDs, toys and more. Everything Christian for Less for over 40 years. |
| www.christianbook.com/ | keywords | Christian Books Homeschool Christian Gifts Bibles Church Supplies Christian Movies Christian Music Music for Church Bible Studies Journaling Bibles |
| www.christianbook.com/ | format-detection | telephone=no |
| www.christianbook.com/?navcat=toplogo_b | description | Leading seller of Christian books, Bibles, gifts, homeschool products, church supplies, DVDs, toys and more. Everything Christian for Less for over 40 years. |
| www.christianbook.com/?navcat=toplogo_b | keywords | Christian Books Homeschool Christian Gifts Bibles Church Supplies Christian Movies Christian Music Music for Church Bible Studies Journaling Bibles |
| www.christianbook.com/?navcat=toplogo_b | format-detection | telephone=no |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=topaccount_b | description | Find Everything Christian for Less at Christianbook.com...Bibles, books, DVDs, kids1 & homeschool items, gifts, music and more at low prices, with unbeatable service. |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=topaccount_b | keywords | christian book distributors,christian book,christian books, christian book store |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=topaccount_b | format-detection | telephone=no |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=accmenu_account | description | Find Everything Christian for Less at Christianbook.com...Bibles, books, DVDs, kids1 & homeschool items, gifts, music and more at low prices, with unbeatable service. |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=accmenu_account | keywords | christian book distributors,christian book,christian books, christian book store |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=accmenu_account | format-detection | telephone=no |
| www.christianbook.com/.../wishlist?event=accmenu_wishlist | description | Find Everything Christian for Less at Christianbook.com...Bibles, books, DVDs, kids1 & homeschool items, gifts, music and more at low prices, with unbeatable service. |
| www.christianbook.com/.../wishlist?event=accmenu_wishlist | keywords | christian book distributors,christian book,christian books, christian book store |
| www.christianbook.com/.../wishlist?event=accmenu_wishlist | format-detection | telephone=no |
Meta Tags (http-equiv attribute)
| Page URL | Name | Content |
| www.christianbook.com/ | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.christianbook.com/?navcat=toplogo_b | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=topaccount_b | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=topaccount_b | Expires | 0 |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=topaccount_b | Cache-Control | no-cache |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=topaccount_b | Pragma | no-cache |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=accmenu_account | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=accmenu_account | Expires | 0 |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=accmenu_account | Cache-Control | no-cache |
| www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=accmenu_account | Pragma | no-cache |
| www.christianbook.com/.../wishlist?event=accmenu_wishlist | X-UA-Compatible | IE=edge,chrome=1 |
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.
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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Nibbler tested the following pages
- https://www.christianbook.com/
- https://www.christianbook.com/?navcat=toplogo_b
- https://www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=topaccount_b
- https://www.christianbook.com/apps/account?event=accmenu_account
- https://www.christianbook.com/Christian/Books/wishlist?event=accmenu_wishlist