Grade your website with WooRank
WooRank offers a free website grader that will give you a report on how your website can improve on search engine optimization and marketing effectiveness. If you are a website designer, consider this as another tool in your website designer toolbox. If you aren’t a website designer and you don’t like your site’s WooRank score, show the report to your webmaster and start asking questions.
The WooRank Grader appears to be similar to the Hubspot Website Grader.
I found the WooRank report card of my website more detailed than the Hubspot report card… and as a result, I felt it was more informative. While both companies advertise that their grader program uses at least 50 variables in compiling the final score of a website, the WooRank report provided information on 47 variables and the Hubspot report only provided information on 21 variables.
Here is a list of red flag items that WooRank found on my website and what I intend to do about them:
- My site does not use gzip – I won’t do anything on this… gzip is a data compression program that helps deliver web pages faster… a nice thing to have, but my site is on shared-hosting and most shared-hosting platforms don’t offer gzip.
- W3C Validity – WooRank processed the html of my home page through the W3C Validator program and found a couple of errors… which I corrected.
- My site does not use Microformats, Dublin Core and Geo Meta Tags – I had no idea what this meant… I will do more research and may or may not take action on this.
- My site doesn’t use Google Analytics – well… Google Analytics adds javascript to your web pages… and javascript makes webs pages load slower… and Google rewards fast loading web pages… see where I’m going here?
- My website is not listed or referenced in Wikipedia – I will contribute an article to Wikipedia about my website.
- My website is not listed in DMOZ – I have found it a big waste of time to try and get listed with this corrupt and elitist organization.
- My website is not listed in the Yahoo Directory – WooRank informed me that there is a free submission to Yahoo… I thought a person had to pay for a Yahoo listing… so I will investigate this.
- Couldn’t find the last Google Crawl date – I’m not sure about this… Google’s Webmaster Tools tells me that my site was crawled last week.
The important thing here is to effectively utilize the information that is provided by both of these services… review the reports and take action if you determine that action is warranted.
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