What is wrong with my site?



I ask myself this question once on a website month.My see any good for me, but the other people see? And what is Enginesseeing research? Here is a checklist of 10 potential performance optimizeyour website excellence:

1. Compatibility with browsers

The first, which is the view of your site by people other browsers. I do I’vesometimes regularly and was shocked by what I saw!

ANYBROWSERhttp: / / www.anybrowser.com

2. Broken links

About 5% of all the links on the website are broken. Asit, the Links is a bad impressionto visitors and is a frequent cause of loss of sales.Also, the major search engines and directories of your site is notlist if there is a link invalid or missing frames.

Some tests unrelated:

SCANhttp LINK: / / www.elsop.com / linkscan / quickcheck.html

NET MECHANIChttp: / / www.netmechanic.com / maintain.htm

GARAGE DeadLink CHECKhttp WEBSITE: / / websitegarage.netscape.com / O = WSG / tuneup_plus / index.html

3. Web-color

Are the colors of your site displays correctly browsers onother man? You may be a beautifulshade lilac on your index page, but it might be strange lookvery another person on the computer.

There are only 216 colors that you use dedicated Web danger. These colors display onany solid and coherent computer monitor or web browser, is able to todisplay at least 8-bit color.

The range of web-safe contains six groups of colors colorswith 36 per group. This Web-216 have a safe COLORSCAN any combination of RGB (red green blue): 0, 51, 102, 153, 204, 255 (eachRGB value must be divisible by 51).

Here is a good color range of Web security:

WEB-SOURCE-SAFE COLORShttp: / / www.web-source.net/216_color_chart.htm

4. Keywords ALT

ALT Keywords allow you peoplewho an alternative to the “images” off intheir browser. For example, the navigation system on yourwebsite is a series of buttons, a link to other pages on your site. If you do not have ALT tags, peoplewho, the “images” disabled willbe unable to navigate through your website - placeof in your button, they see only an empty space.

ALT But one day you can say that these people whatthat button works. For example, if the key is a connection to your “Site Map”, you can tag the ALT:

ALT tags, you can also improve your keyword density.For each image, which is not as hyperlink couldinsert your main keywords. For example:

5. Meta-Tag

Meta tags are so important, they deserve a wholearticle on its own. The main meta tags as Aretha days, the days of keywords and description tag.

The securities-day must not exceed 64 characters (more than that, and they are cut someSearch engines).

The days of keywords should be about 5 to 10 keywordsthat appear on your page. Not the words that donot appear on this page - in some search engines to your website wants to be punished for that. Do not repeat the same keyword - this is considered as “keywords filling” and sentencing is also bythe search engines.

Separate keywords with spaces (no comma). Thisallows search engines to combine keywords in your memories for those who “expression of research.”

The description does not date, more than 200 characters.Include so many of your keywords you can. Remember to thatyour description must be tempting day - it must peoplewant to visit your site.

Some Program, your meta tags for you:

GARAGEhttp WEBSITE: / / websitegarage.netscape.com / Turbocharge / Meta /

META MEDIChttp: / / www.northernwebs.com / set / setsimjr.html

MULTI-meta-MAKERhttp: / / www.multimeta.com / tools / multimetamaker.html

6. Last Time

A slow-loading index page is a major reasonsfor turnover lost. TimeFor the generally accepted maximum load a page, is about 15 seconds. Here AFRE service you, how long your website pagetakes-load:

NETMECHANIChttp: / / www.netmechanic.com / cobrand / Future Quest / load_check.htm

Your pages should not be more than approximately the size of 30Kb. To calculate the size of your Web page, select theHTML document and then click “File” and’Properties “and note the file size. So go with THESAME for all graphics you have on this page. Addthose While figures for your page size.

If your site is less than 30Kb and takes just 15 seconds to load, the problem is most yourweb with the host. The solution is for web hosting. Are2 services here to check the speed of your website host’sserver and compare them with other host sites:

COMPAREhttp HOST: / / www.hostcompare.com / testtools.htm

CNET WEBSERVICEShttp: / / webservices.cnet.com / ping /

7. (GIF or JPEG) Cruncher

The end of shrinking the size of your images is one of the Bestway for a faster loading of the web page. You can usuallyreduce a GIF or JPEG 40% to 50% of all withoutlosing definition or sharpness.

SPINWAVEhttp: / / www.spinwave.com / crunchers.html

8. HTML Optimizer

Another way of your page to load faster is tocompress (or optimizing) your HTML code. A HTMLOptimizer removes all spaces in your HTML codeand also eliminates some unnecessary tags.

On average, an optimizer is the HTML page size ofyour 15% to 20%. This percentage should not be seemmuch, but the savings on the charging time is much higher, asyour the visitor’s browser is much moreefficiently analyze your page.

A word of caution: in most HTML willfind optimizer to “Options” menu that tells the toignore parts of the code. Make sure to compress yourOptimizer script tags embedded - ifthey get compressed, the script is, in general, do not work.

Advanced HTML OPTIMIZERhttp: / / www.pcbit.com/htmlopt/

9. Width, height and BORDER Keywords

The width, height and BORDER essentialfor are attributes of each image you have on your site. If youhyperlink an image, always make sure the attribute BORDER “is zero (BORDER = 0). Doth If you can not, your image as hyperlink is an ugly blue border around it.

The attributes of width and height of your page toload allow faster, since the browser knows in advance howmuch room of the image requires. Widthand to discover the amount of each image, double-click on the file theImage. This is automatically open “Microsoft Photo Editor” - the image is displayed, with the widthand height of your image (in pixels) on thetool bar.

10. HTML Validator

Always check the validity of your HTML code. Some search engines give lower classification of the page, poorquality HTML (for example, the elements socket incorrect).

Here are some free online tests:

HELPhttp HTML: / / www.htmlhelp.org/tools/validator/

BOBBYhttp: / / www.cast.org/bobby/

WATSONhttp: / / watson.addy.com /