November 22, 2014 | Business, Favourite things
Have you ever wondered how your website stacks up against competitors in terms of accessibility, SEO, social media and technology? Well, you can find out all this and more with a free online tool called Nibbler. Simply go the homepage, type in your URL and in a few minutes you’ll have a detailed website report showing your site’s scores on a 1 to 10 scale. Whether you’re a site owner or developer, you can use the report to gauge how well you’re doing in several key categories, including user experience and engagement.
How Nibbler works
Nibbler is an automated computer program (also called a “bot) that tries to find webpages by looking at the first one and following links from that to other pages. Note that Flash websites and sites that require you to fill in a form to enter it will not be testable. Also, some websites use special anti-bot technologies to stop spammers, and therefore they will block Nibbler as well.
Unhappy with the results?
The test results are quite detailed and usually explain the reasons behind the score. If you’re still confused, you can always click on the “Help” link at the top right of the test.
As you can see from our report, we have some room for improvement, but the great thing about Nibbler is that it provides suggestions for how to optimise your site. However, if you’re concerned about your scores, consider the following:
A multimedia and design professional with a healthy obsession for all things web. James’ passion for web design sees him stretching his creative imagination to eternal limits and forever sees him thinking outside the box, even if it is not work related. James’ ideas are original and innovative, and implementing them into the world of the web to create aesthetically enjoyable websites is what he does best.