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Website Audits and Accessibility

Internet technology and a client's expectations change rapidly. Considering the time and effort you have spent to create your site, if you are not getting the response you want from your site it is time you let us evaluate it. A website audit will help you to understand the strength and weaknesses of your site. The audit enables you to make improvements.

What is a website audit?

It is an analysis of your webpages to find out if your intention to communicate with the users will work. We evaluate the pages with help of a detailed web design guideline. The main ingredient in our audit is usability. Usability is about making the visit to your website as effective as possible for the users.

What does it cost?

Only 30 USD for a small site (max. 10 pages)

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What is the benefit of a website audit?

How does your webite compare to you peers and relevant benchmarks?
To make your site perform better than most of your competitors. To have your site in compliance with high standards and good webdesign practice impresses visitors. We might tell you about things you never thought about. Webpages in compliance with terms on this page are sometimes referred to as "friendly pages". That means the pages are friendly to: 1. The visitors 2. The browsers 3. The search engines and directories. Most visitors come to a website to obtain information and not to admire the fancy design.

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Accessibility and Usability

This means the site is easy to access and read and also easy to understand. Make it simple and use less code for form and structure and more for content. Background images, if used, should be small and be similar in color to the background.

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Navigability - Menus and Site Search

Navigational design is tricky because it is so subjective. It can be accomplished with a combination of menus, image maps, site map, arrows or a site search. Navigation in a website should be easy and the visitors should always know where they are. The navigation should work in both directions. With careful planning, the navigation will be right and you will feel it. Fancy graphics can not hide a confusing structure.

Speed

It is important to consider the bandwidth. By minimizing the size of download you will improve your site and make sure the net is not overloaded. In many European countries the surfers pay per minute for their time online.

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Viewable with Any Browser

Pages should not be dependent on any visual presentation technology. When your site complies with existing standards it is generally usable with any browser. It also means it will work when a new browser comes out on the market. However, do not overdo it. A web browser version 3 or lower is very rare these days. Sometimes a browser finds a page with tags it does not understand. If the page is well designed it can still be presented understandable. This is referred to as graceful degradation.

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What do we check for?

The Sweden Canada Link audits every aspect of your site. However, good web design is subjective. We use a comprehensive checklist during the website audit that includes items from the following categories:

General aspects

• How is the overall look and feel?

• Is the content selling and appealing and the messages clear?

• Are the pages written in a positive atmosphere?

• Are there broken links?

• Are there pages under construction?

• How is the page branding?

• Color schemes issues. Are safe web colors used?

• Locality issues (time currency)?

• Is the author or owner identified?

• Multilingual aspects?

• Appropriate e-mail names?

• Is there information about when the page was updated?

• Is there space between the objects in the page?

• If frames are used, are they appropriate for the site and do they fulfill a purpose?

• Do links open new windows?

• Are bright colors used instead of dark?

Navigation

• Consistent and easily learned navigation

• Alternative navigation

• Are shortcuts (preferably a site search) used instead of dropdown menus?

• Is the structure logical?

Text

• Fonts,color etc.

• Is there blinking text?

• Is color chosen to ensure a strong contrast between the text and the background?

• Are there spelling errors?

• Are emphasis tags used appropriately?

• Is heading 1 used exactly once per page?

• Do the paragraphs have good headings or subheadings?

• Are appropriate fonts used?

• Are less than 3-5 fonts used in the text?

• Are bold text used to emphasize words instead of underlined or italics?

Images

• Do images complement the text or replace it?

• Do all images have alt-text?

• Are images larger than they need to be?

• Are you warning the visitors for long downloads?

• Is the size of all images specified?

• Do animated images distract the visitors?

Code

• Are there scripting errors?

• Are there HTML coding errors?

• Forms

• Are style sheets used?

• Does the text at the top of the page contain all the relevant keywords?

• Is the HTML validated?

• Does it look OK in all browsers version 4 or newer?

Speed

• How is the performance - download time?

• Is the browser loading the text first?

• Is the homepage size limited to 30 K? It should display lightning fast!

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What does it cost?

Only 30 USD for a small site (max. 10 pages)

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