Feb 24 2008
What’s Your Website Score?
Have you ever wondered how well optimised your website is? What I mean by that, is how easy your content is to find on search engines.
Website Grader is an online tool that gives your website a score out of 100 and prepares a pretty comprehensive report (ready within a couple of minutes).
The report looks at many different components, such as:
- metadata (title, description, keywords)
- headings
- image tags
- readability
- Google PageRank
- number of pages indexed
- Alexa rank (which it converts to a percentile – ie top xx% of all websites)
- number of inbound links
- Technorati ranking (which is also displayed as a percentile)
- number of del.icio.us bookmarks
- number of articles on Digg and total votes
Just to name a few. It’s well worth a couple of minutes of your time and can highlight any problem areas.
And don’t ask me what I got – I’m still getting over being the slowest blogger on the internet 😉
Hat-tip to Pearl’s SEO score for your website, where I saw this originally.
Related: A handy site for analysing incoming links.
25 Responses to “What’s Your Website Score?”
Ohh come on Meg, don’t be shy 😉
I haven come across that site a few times, never bothered to give it a go. But if were all showing off our numbers again…
I was a little surprised, said I got 97/100 for AFW and 91/100 for crazy meezer. I think it must be a little flawed, as it says my AFW pr is 4.
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Leigh
That’s odd about the AFW PR. I tried a couple of PR checkers thinking maybe the slap had been lifted, but naturally they’re down. I did see one return a PR7 for AFW 😮 – naturally I didn’t get a screen shot though, and I can’t replicate it… Maybe there’s something screwy in the datacentres.
Oh, I got a 98 since you asked 😉
I was going to say… I got 87 (which I was quite pleased with) and I’m nowhere near the blogger you are!!!
Well done.
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Hey CB
If you do redsultana.com without the www you actually get a 95 😀
It gave me 98! I’m glad I did it though as it told me I had no meta keywords… I’m sure I added them when I was redesigning but must have forgotten.
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I got 87 on my Scenic Adelaide 85 on my load of BS. it was an interesting experience, thanks for the link.
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It gave me a 98. Does this mean I can sell out for billions of dollars?? 😛
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Sigh… 82. Apparently, I have a lot of work to do…
Burgo’s last blog post..Mr. A to the Z… yes I’m excited.
Thanks for writing about and linking to Website Grader. We appreciate it!
Mike Volpe
VP Marketing
HubSpot
congratulations Meg
what are meta words ?
what in the title ?
thanks for the link – I got 91 /100 but I have a lot of work to do to tweak a few things – so much to learn.
You are not the slowest blogger … I am barely 32 words at best *hangs head in shame and shuffles off to take/find touch typing programs.
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without my www. I got 94/100 – hmmm it makes you feel good anyway and it is very useful in terms of what to fix on my website.
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Well it tells me I’m 96 which kind of surprises me.
After that it may as well have all been written in Greek for how much I comprehended of the report. LOL. No, not that bad (although I did learn Greek at school).
Anyway, I have a question for you. One thing it highlighted was my lack of presence in “directories”. Interesting in doing a post on that? (or point me in the right direction if you already have).
Oh and it kindly pointed out I have 0 Diggs and 0 entries in de.lici.ous. Yeah, thanks for pointing that out to me. LOL.
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Oh yeah, and apparently I have too many images!!!! Which is interesting given bloggers like Darren Rowse indicate that using images is important for blogs.
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John – Yes, it’s handy for picking up little things like that.
Sire – hope you got some tips
SP – Me first!
Burgo – sorry, hope you got some ideas?
Mike – no worries, I think a lot of people have found it useful. Thanks for providing the free resource.
Babyamore – sounds like questions for another post (or I’ll get back to you by email). Thanks for telling me how you went in the typing.
Lightening – my line is usually “it’s all geek to me”.
I think “big list” of blog directories have been done (I’m better with business directories) – I’ll see if I can hunt one down. But FWIW, I’m not listed on dmoz or yahoo either.
Hehe – my report told me I had 654 bloglines subscribers – if only (I think it’s like – 34)!
Yeah, I think most blogs have “too many images” (me included).
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Lightening
This list of directories might help
http://www.toprankblog.com/rss-blog-directories/
Babyamore – this is a very timely post (Sue just mentioned it on the forum).
http://www.bloggingtips.com/2008/02/25/search-engine-optimization-tips-for-blogger-templates-part-1/
Thanks Meg. Do you think it’s worth the time submitting my blog to directories or are they really more useful for “how to” type blogs?
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Well I am pretty chuffed. It tells me that my blog is 1 month 23 days old, and although I have no google page rank, I got 90.
Something totally OT but interesting. Have a look at Lightenings comments. The commentluv shows two different posts……. interesting.
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Lightening – that might be a good topic for the forum, in fact I just created one!
http://www.aussiebloggers.com.au/forum/index.php/topic,1384.0.html
Kelley – I thought I’d have a sticky at yours & it showed a 94 (with the www in). Interesting that it “found” a blog at your site – MINE! LMAO (Duncan points out – “looks for evidence of a blog (I think it’s looking for a page with the word ‘blog’ in it).”
Re the commentluv – Lightening’s posted in the meantime (since yesterday). Grabs the last post when the comment is left, rather than being dynamic.
Hi Meg,
This is a great free resource isn’t it. I think it’s fantastic.
I’m at 94 for my main blog – but most importantly, it reminded me that my domain names expires in a couple of months! I better get onto that…
My new blog is only 76 – to be expected because it’s new, but it did highlight a few issues I need to get on to.
I’d seen it before, but this was a timely reminder! Thanks.
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I got 81. Long way to go.
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This is really great stuff. One of my sites scores 71/100 and my blog scored 57. Good information on how to improve them too.
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Tried it again thinking I would have improved with time but only got 86 meaning I dropped 1 point.
Great tip. I’d never seen this site before. I think it will be very useful for me to see how well optimized my current sites are and to make my new sites stronger and more searchable.
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