How Do You Test A Website?

Most website testing tools focus on analyzing one dimension of your website. Website Grader looks at web performance, mobile usability, seo-friendliness and security to determine a score out of 100 possible points. We believe easy-to-understand, transparent grades help motivate website owners improve the web experience for everyone.

Web Performance

Web performance tests, or website page speed tests, are done to benchmark the experiences visitors have when they come to your website. Optimizing your website's performance is crucial to increasing traffic, improving conversion rates, generating more leads, and increasing revenue. Your overall web performance score is broken down by analyzing page size, page requests, page speed, browser caching, compression, and images.

Large Page Size

The heavier the site page, the slower the load. For optimal performance, try to keep page size below 3MB.

Small Page Size

The smaller the site page, the faster it loads. Your website’s page size is below 3MB, which makes it faster and more affordable for your visitors to your site.

Too Many Page Requests

The more HTTP requests your website makes, the slower it becomes. Combine files to minimize the number of requests made.

Page Requests Kept Low

Minimizing the number of requests made on your website makes your website load faster.

Slow Page Speed

Best-in-class webpages let users interact with the page within 3 seconds. Any slower and visitors will abandon your site, reducing conversions and sales.

Fast Page Speed

Your website lets users interact with the page within 3 seconds, leading to higher conversion rates and lower bounce rates than the average website.

Poor Caching Policy

Good browser caching will speed up your website by storing frequently used content in local memory.

Efficient Browser Caching

You’re storing frequently used site content to your visitor’s browser. This speeds up their website experience as they click through the various pages of your website.

Too Many Page Redirects

Each additional page redirects adds an additional loading cycle, increasing the time to display the page, hurting user experience. Having too many page redirects is also a sub-optimal experience for search engine bots.

Minimal Page Redirects

By keeping page redirects to a minimum, users don’t have to wait as long for content to display on their devices.

Uncompressed Code

Sending users JavaScript and CSS uncompressed increases your web page file size increase, making your website run slower.

Compression Enabled

When your JavaScript and CSS are properly compressed, it decreases the total web page file size sent to your site visitors. This can make your website run much faster.

Oversized Images

Large image files are often the biggest culprits of slow page speed. By making sure images are properly sized for your visitor’s device type, you can improve your visitor’s browsing experience.

Properly Sized Images

Visitors should download images in the size that works for their device. Images that are larger than what they need increases page size and slows down page speed.

 

Mobile-Friendly

Traffic from mobile devices is growing fast. Optimize your website for mobile or you'll miss out on valuable traffic, leads, and revenue.

Responsive Experience for Users

Is your content sized correctly for the device that’s viewing it? Responsive design gives you a bump in search rankings for searches on mobile devices. 

Fixed Experience for Users

Oops! We’ve noticed that your content treats all website visitors in the same dimensions. This makes your website hard to navigate for a lot of users, which will also make it harder for your website to convey helpful information to site visitors, convert them to customers, and potentially hurt your website’s ability to.

Readability

Small screens shouldn’t mean small unreadable text. Legible font sizes makes your content accessible to everyone.

Navigation

People with bigger fingers or limited mobility are customers, too. Make sure every tappable experience on your website is sized and spaced appropriately.

SEO

Make sure your website is easy for users to discover—and easy for search bots to understand—with better page titles, headings, and meta descriptions.

Findability

Making sure search engine bots can find and index your website in a search result is one of the first steps of SEO. There’s nothing to optimize for if it’s not showing up online.

Meta Description

Don’t leave your digital storefront up to search engines to decide. Write an enticing meta description that shows searchers what they’ll get from your website.

Hidden Content

Your website uses a plugin that renders content in a way search engines can’t index. If you create content that search engines can’t find, it doesn’t count for your website rankings!

Website Security

A secure website is a good website. Would you willingly visit a hacked website?

Secure Website

Your website loads on https with an up to date SSL certificate. This prevents hackers from

Vulnerable Javascript

When your website uses compromised or vulnerable code it puts both visitors and your business at risk.