Website Review Please

[Plumb Spares Direct]

We have an offshoot of www.plumbsparesdirect.com called www.toiletsparesdirect.com which hopefully provides a more user friendly experience for people looking solely for toilet spares. They are very similar in style but your thoughts would be much appreciated.

Just to be clear, I'm more interested in www.toiletsparesdirect.com in this instance.

Thanks in advance

 

[ContentInspector]

I think there's a few immediate improvements you can look at:

1) Most important - the site responds to BOTH www AND root but there is no canonical tag on the homepage. This may cause "content duplication" issues for SEO.
2) Inconsistent fonts - there's a mix of serif and sans-serif.
3) Consider site-wide SSL.
4) Quite a few 404s
5) Missing descriptions
6) IMHO the mix of plain and image tiles is hard to read.

Hope that's helpful

 

[Plumb Spares Direct]

I think there's a few immediate improvements you can look at:

1) Most important - the site responds to BOTH www AND root but there is no canonical tag on the homepage. This may cause "content duplication" issues for SEO.
2) Inconsistent fonts - there's a mix of serif and sans-serif.
3) Consider site-wide SSL.
4) Quite a few 404s
5) Missing descriptions
6) IMHO the mix of plain and image tiles is hard to read.

Hope that's helpful

Thanks for the feedback. The WWW and root thing is something I'm aware of but can get no sense from my web developer about it. I think it's the same for www.plumbsparesdirect.com as well. Is that something I can do myself? Again, I left the SSL to my web developer and didn't realise it wasn't site wide . Do you have an example of a 404 or advise how I find them? That's something I can sort out myself. Missing descriptions is down to me, I'll have a look at that. Palin and image titles?

 

[ContentInspector]

www/root and SSL - there are a few ways of skinning this cat, but I would use a .htaccess file in the root of your website to redirect http to httpS, and www to non-www (assuming you want the root not www). Something like this below (remove the spaces in URLs and be sure to test first!):

# 301 Redirect http to naked https
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ h t t p s://toiletsparesdirect . com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NC]
# 301 Redirect www to naked
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\. [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ h t t p s://toiletsparesdirect. com%{REQUEST_URI} [L,R=301,NC]

You can check for 404s using a range of different tools including (ahem) contentinspector.com

The tiles I was referring to are the home page tile icons of different categories - some are pix and some are plain colour. I felt that this combination is a little hard to read quickly...

 

[sipexa]

Hello,

Header are is too long additionally footer is too long. May be reducing them can be good.

When I enter to site with www fonts are not loading truely, instead of using full path for fonts, changing them as virtual paths can be good. I mean instead of using w w w....../fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.4.0, using only like /.../.../fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.4.0

 

[Deleted member 281732]

plumbsparedirect didn't load for me at all. Slow server?

toiletsparesdirect loaded and works well enough, but I'd advise against using the Times font for pretty much anything online.

 

[UniHost2u]

need to update your design. i think you use old design.