How to Tell if Your Website Sucks

How to tell if your website sucks! DESIGN USABILITY SEO How to tell if your DESIGN Sucks! Your design is your first impression, your chance to show in a glance who you are and what you do. Users can't tell what your company does instantly upon seeing the site and header The site has any kind of intro, welcome, or "splash" page - 25% of users leave a site immediately upon landing on an intro page. WELCOME! Enter Welcome Welcome The site uses any animation, auto-play video, scrolling or flashing text or marquee Click Me Click Me Click Me Use of pop-up windows Music or any other audio automatically playing Mystery Meat Navigation -- navigation elements designed for aesthetics rather than usability -- any navigation element or icon that does not have explicit and user-friendly text (text that appears only on rollover is still Mystery Meat Navigation) Clashing colors or excessive number of colors The site requires you to scroll horizontally on a Content 1024 screen to see it all How to tell if your USABILITY sucks! Jakob's Law of Web Usability: "Users spend most of their time on other websites." Users expect your site to work the way other sites work. z? Z Slow site load time Loading WELCOME! Over use of capitalization, including First Letter Caps in addition to ALL CAPS WELCOME! SOT Spelling errors -- no one wants a Pubic Accountant (well, almost no one) WHEN WHERE Difficult to find the contact info from any given page on the site Lack of a contact form (not everyone has an email account set up on the computer they use to find your site) Wall of test Loris Ipum lots ipsum Lors ipsum Consecuter Loris alore alas Wall of test Loris Ipum Lots Ipsum Wall of text peum Consecutor Loris alore alas Lors Ipsum Consecutor Leris alere alos peum Consecutor Loris alore alas alass Lots ipeum Censecutor Loris alore alas pum Conseculor Lorts alere dos PDF files for online reading or critical overview information. PDFS are for technical details, not for selling and most users will never read them. How to tell if your SEO sucks! If no one ever finds your site, the rest of it doesn't really matter. z?Z Slow site load time Loading Title Tag Poor or no use of the Title tag -- your homepage is called "Home" or titles that start with "The" or Home "Welcome" or using the same title on every page of the site Poor use of SEO URLS, www.site.com/ID?=1337 vs. www.site.com/cool-toys.html URL vs URL Lack of landing pages to target important keyword phrases SEO 9 WORDS Keyword stuffing titles, meta tags, and site content Any content copied from another site Content duplicated within the site Insufficient amount of relevant indexable content. Buy Our Product Nowl" Description: It's cool. Created by Ecreative Internet Marketing www.ecreativeim.com