Free tool to test your website

[TimeGiver]

Hi All,

I just found this website where you type in your website address and it gives you a full report on what should be improved. And NO, I am not an affiliate, I just thought that it might be useful to all of you.
Unfortunately, it doesn't allow me to post the link but you can search NIBBLER on google.

"Enter the address of any website and Nibbler will give you a report scoring the website out of 10 for key areas, including accessibility, SEO, social media and technology."

My overall score is 5.8 I have so much work to do
What is your overall score?

 

[fisicx]

6.6.

But the score is meaningless. It gave me zero because I don't have facebook or twitter (it's not needed for my business). And zero because I don't have analytics (which I do).

It also said the code was poor. Apparently we shouldn't be using 'border'. And it said I'm not W3C compliant - something that is becoming increasingly irrelevant.

So thanks for the pointer - it's just not a very useful scoring system.

 

[TimeGiver]

facebook and twitter are good for SEO purpose (if you have social media linked to your website you have more chances to be found on Google.)

I actually find it very useful, maybe it's not highly accurate but it showed me what I need to improve on my website.

 

[fisicx]

Facebook and Twitter have virtually zero SEO value.

But to score me zero for not having any SM pages is daft. The same with zero for analytics just because I don't use google. It's things like this that devalue the tool.

 

[TimeGiver]

zero SEO value? I think you should do you your homework.
Either way, I am not here to contradict, I just offered a useful tip (in my opinion) so take it or leave.

 

[fisicx]

zero SEO value? I think you should do you your homework.

Homework has been done and marked. All links from FB and Twitter are no follow. Google might give a tiny nod to the number of likes but as you can now buy likes and follows and retweets and so on they aren't worth much if anything. There have been umpteen studies and reviews and threads on this topic and they all agree that social media might be great but it's not an important SEO signal.

Like I said, thank you for the pointer to the tool but it has some fundamental errors in it's scoring system.

 

[Alan]

facebook and twitter are good for SEO purpose

All links from FB and Twitter are no follow. Google might give a tiny nod to the number of likes but as you can now buy likes and follows and retweets and so on they aren't worth much if anything.

Facebook and Twitter are good for inbound marketing purposes, and as such are good for white hat SEO. (but not because of what Google thinks of it )

Why, because if you want natural real links to remarkable content on your website, you need to show that content to the word first, otherwise there is no chance of gaining a link.

Facebook and Twitter are a way of showing content to the world.

 

[fisicx]

I agree Alan, but a link from FB or Twitter counts for nothing. You could tweet a thousand times with links to your site and your ranking wouldn't budge an inch. It's what happens afterwards that matters.

 

[Alan]

I just tested nibbler on a few sites and it is well off in many of its calculations, such as working out if a site displays well on mobile etc and some coding aspects.

Its a tool, but I wouldn't advise a novice taking the results at face value.

 

[Alan]

It's what happens afterwards that matters.

Absolutely - my use of the words 'remarkable content' was deliberate. Tweet a link to an ordinary website ( like most of ours ) and there is no point. Tweet a link to a blog post containing a video of police shooting an innocent man, or kittens playing a piano and you might get some 3rd party links back.

 

[SEO Lady]

Where do I find the link to kittens playing a piano please?

 

[fisicx]

 

[SEO Lady]

I've already seen that one

 

[webgeek]

Would probably be more likely to rely on marketing.grader.com (if I had to pick an automated solution)...

Why not just get Hubspot to do a free inbound marketing assessment and use those insights? They won't test everything under the sun, but they'll help you get a handle on where your user path to converting is breaking down, which is half the battle (with getting traffic to the site being the other half).

 

[UKSBD]

When Google Authorship was all the rage I created a Google Author Rank Checker http://www.sim64.co.uk/checker/

People loved it.
Especially when I had the random number generator set to always return a score of 90+ ;-)

Basically, the more the tool flatters the website/person the better they like the tool.
http://www.sim64.co.uk/uk/sharing-good-news-author-rank-checker-a-social-study/

 

[tonymac84]

This is useful and something to bear in mind but I wouldn't rely on it alone

 

[fisicx]

This is useful and something to bear in mind but I wouldn't rely on it alone

What's useful and something to bear in mind? There's a whole load of suggestions in the thread, which one are you referring to?

 

[SEO Lady]

What's useful and something to bear in mind? There's a whole load of suggestions in the thread, which one are you referring to?

The cat video?

 

[tonymac84]

What's useful and something to bear in mind? There's a whole load of suggestions in the thread, which one are you referring to?

Apologies for any confusion but I thought it was clear that I was responding to the thread starter, as I didn't attribute a quote to anyone else.

 

[fisicx]

OK get it now, it's just that your post appears below everybody else's so it wasn't clear who you were referring to.

But if you read the whole thread you will realise it's not a very good tool. In fact none of them are that good. I used to use them but once they started telling me lies I didn't bother any more.

 

[tonymac84]

OK get it now, it's just that your post appears below everybody else's so it wasn't clear who you were referring to.

But if you read the whole thread you will realise it's not a very good tool. In fact none of them are that good. I used to use them but once they started telling me lies I didn't bother any more.

Saw it as more of a starting point to refer to before getting into the nitty gritty

 

[fisicx]

It's not even a very good starting point. It makes all sorts of assumptions that could lead a novice in totally the wrong direction.

 

[Edd Dutton]

Thanks for the tip. Like the others said, I probably wouldn't rely on it alone but as part of a portfolio of tools, it is useful.