Sitescore

Sitescore came back up recently (after what seemed an age) and since then I’ve been getting slightly obsessed with it. In fact, if the people at Sitescore send me a bill for the bandwidth I’ve used up — editing and retesting my site — I wouldn’t be surprised.

My key aim at the moment is to get listed in the top 10 (just for the sake of it). I did manage it briefly last night, but dropped again shortly afterwards. The only thing that seems to be holding me back is they keyword placement test — although I talk about my scripts, articles, even mention my name, PHP etc repeatedly, it doesn’t think it’s enough. If I wasn’t as morally sound as I am (haha) I’d bung in the ‘right’ words here and there for the sake of it, but that’s no better than advertising. (Self-blogstitution on my own site?)

Anyway, I just thought I’d share the link because less people know about the site than I’d assumed, and it’s fun to see what everyone’s scores are. Do comment with yours :)

46 comments so far

  1. Rachael said:
    On 09 Jun at 6:34 pm

    W00t first comment. Go me. I average 6.4. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I’m not sure it’s good, but then, it’s better than 5, so equally, it’s not cr*p… Interesting…

  2. Hillarie said:
    On 09 Jun at 6:45 pm

    I did the same thing! I was like: “MUST…HAVE…HIGHER…SCORE!” Once I got up to an 8.6 it got boring. Great, now I’m going to go see what my score is now! (Probably a 7 or something…I don’t use many images in my site, and Google Analytics was slowing my site down).

  3. Claire said:
    On 09 Jun at 6:51 pm

    My overall Sitescore is 7.9 [accessibility score: 9.1, quality score: 8.8, search score: 7.1] Interesting… I think I’m going to go play with it some more :)

  4. Daz said:
    On 09 Jun at 7:10 pm

    Oooh I’m rocking 6.4 too – my 3.4 search score pulled it down :(

  5. Sara said:
    On 09 Jun at 7:41 pm

    I don’t like sitescore personally. There isn’t a specific reason for my opinion, but I really don’t find it useful. I was totally obsessed with it for a month or two, but I only check my score once every month or so now.

  6. Camille said:
    On 09 Jun at 7:48 pm

    Accessibility: 5.7 Quality: 5.0 Search: 1.2 Sitescore: 4.6 Heheh…..well, I’m not too keen with keywords to describe my site :P I did fix up the keywords but all that changed was the quality to 4.6. Meh.

  7. Amelie said:
    On 09 Jun at 8:05 pm

    I’m 8.1 :D

  8. Rhys said:
    On 09 Jun at 9:24 pm

    7.1. I qualify for a searchscore icon, but it says I don’t!

  9. Nikki said:
    On 09 Jun at 9:27 pm

    Accessibility – 9.6 Quality – 9.7 Search – 6.5 Sitescore – 7.9 I have to admit that I don’t understand a few of the more technical mumbo-jumbo :P

  10. Stephanie said:
    On 09 Jun at 9:36 pm

    Accessibility: 6.3 Quality: 7.2 Search: 4.9 Overall: 5.7 Apparently, my score was low because I didn’t bother getting it listed in search engines and using meta tags. I think that I’ll change that now. Hmm… By the way, all you have to do to get more hits is to blog about something rather risque from time to time.

  11. Stephanie said:
    On 09 Jun at 9:44 pm

    Looking at my results again, it seems that they don’t like the fact that my layout is imageless. There is such thing has an imageless layout that is visually appealing! The fact that it’s judging is partly done with keywords and SEO stuff means that it’s not a true judge of pure quality.

  12. Alyssa said:
    On 09 Jun at 9:47 pm

    I’ve messed around with my site a bit and have managed to garner the following scores: Accessibility: 9.8 Quality: 9.8 Search: 5.8 —————— Total: 7.1 I can’t manage to get that search score up. I don’t mention things enough, I guess. I added the keywords they recommended, but really those aren’t very good either. I did have a 6.6, I think.

  13. Hev said:
    On 09 Jun at 10:22 pm

    6.6 Accessibility 7.0 Quality 4.5 Search 5.0 Sitescore Hmm…well, I don’t really care if search engines find me, I am a private web designer. Would like my accessibility to up a little, so I will work on that, my quality is not acceptable, that should be a 10 (did I mention I am a perfectionist on quality?). But here is mine.

  14. Renee said:
    On 09 Jun at 10:39 pm

    Accessibility: 6.7 Quality: 6.5 Search: 4.5 Overall: 5.2 The bad: Some images need alt text, poor search engine placement, “less than ideal” URLs, and Statcounter code makes site invalid. The good: Using Statcounter, flexible fonts, valid CSS, and readability.

  15. Jessica said:
    On 09 Jun at 10:53 pm

    I got a 5.3 which doesn’t suprise me.

  16. Katie said:
    On 09 Jun at 11:08 pm

    I don’t like how they use Alexa.com ratings in their rubric. I have a subdomain, so it only clocks in my host’s rating, and even then I don’t see how it matters in terms of accessibility. I have a small personal website – of course it’s not going to be crazy-popular! And with incoming links, I don’t want a lot of people linking to my site who don’t even visit it – i.e. link exchanges, button rotations, whatever. I’d rather have four sites linking to me than 100 sites linking to me that don’t even visit my site. Still, I’m at 7.3 – which is good enough for me right now.

  17. Josh said:
    On 10 Jun at 12:26 am

    There’s a difference between testing your site with www and without, right? When I tested my site with the www, it said I have no incoming links… which I know isn’t true. But, it won’t let me test it without www. For http://www.ink-spot.nu, I got a 3.2 average score.

  18. Jack said:
    On 10 Jun at 12:28 am

    It’s still giving me a score of 1 because it’s too stupid to tell I have links on my page. Arg.

  19. Nellie said:
    On 10 Jun at 2:04 am

    Before I killed Harlequin Girl off, my overall site score was 8.0. At the moment, with your lovely WordPress theme, I’m at 1.0. Yay for no effort.

  20. Dave said:
    On 10 Jun at 3:57 am

    9.5 Accessibility 9.4 Quality 6.4 Search 7.1 Sitescore It would have been alright if it weren’t for that pesky Search! Grrr. Who can much your SEO powers? :-/

  21. Jessica said:
    On 10 Jun at 4:07 am

    Accessibility: 8.5 Quality: 8.4 Search: 3.7 (Gah!) Sitescore: 5.8 The “search” score pulled my whole site score down.

  22. Julie said:
    On 10 Jun at 6:19 am

    You got quite the, erm, rivals for being on the top 10. You know, a bunch of sites nobody knows about like mozilla.org or wordpress.com I tried my website for the hell of it, knowing well that it would score very low because it’s on hiatus, and I got 1.0 for overall score.

  23. Melissa said:
    On 10 Jun at 6:32 am

    Oh cool site. I got an 8.1, yay! 9.7 Accessibility 9.6 Quality 7.0 Search 8.1 Overall Guess I need to do some search engine optimization… :P Hope your weekend is good so far, Jem! ^_^

  24. Jordan said:
    On 10 Jun at 9:11 am

    Yay, Sitescore finally picked up my website. I’ve got an 8.4 overall. 8.8/10 – Accessibility 9.3/10 – Quality 7.6/10 – Search I wonder how much of a difference adding a few more images will do me? I should go to sleep now… *passes out*

  25. Gabrielle said:
    On 10 Jun at 9:35 am

    It gave me .2 points for adding some images. 9.7/10 – Accessibility 9.8/10 – Quality 8.5/10 – Search 8.7/10 – Overall I was so happy to be able to raise it from 7.9. Now that I can’t possibility get any higher without more popularity I’m a bit sad.

  26. Amber said:
    On 10 Jun at 10:07 am

    My site score is generally 7.9. I’ve become quite obsessive with it so I’m going to give it a break. I’m not entirely sure quite how accurate it is especially by the amount if fluctuates even without me changing a thing.

  27. Mari said:
    On 10 Jun at 11:40 am

    Accessibility: 8.1 Quality: 8.4 Search: 6.4 Sitescore: 6.7 Sigh. I’m not very good at this yet.

  28. Nan said:
    On 10 Jun at 1:51 pm

    I like SiteScore as well and I think it’s great that you recommend it.

  29. Li said:
    On 10 Jun at 3:09 pm

    9.7 – Accessibility Score 9.7 – Quality Score 7.5 – Search Score 8.1 – Sitescore That’s a LOT better than I thought it’d be, heh. :)

  30. Carly said:
    On 10 Jun at 3:11 pm

    Oooh mines not so good at all. Wow I will work on those now… wow! Thanks for the link!

  31. Josh(ua/y) said:
    On 10 Jun at 4:28 pm

    That website is addictive. I’m not giving my score away yet, you’ll have to be bothered for now, because it needs work.

  32. Paul Bidwell said:
    On 10 Jun at 8:25 pm

    Striving for perfection – Just need to get my link around now!! Accessibility Score 10 Quality Score 10 Search Score 7.6 Overall 8.2 Currently Ranked: 190

  33. Mike Haddad said:
    On 10 Jun at 10:27 pm

    Does Mint not count as analytic software?

  34. Josh said:
    On 11 Jun at 12:18 am

    It’s testing my site without the www now. Here are the results: Accessibility: 6.8 Quality: 7.9 Search: 6.4 Sitescore: 7.1 And now I have a powerful desire to change some things, in order to increase my score a bit…

  35. *chanel. said:
    On 11 Jun at 2:08 am

    LOL. My sitescore is ass. I got a 1.7. Oh well.

  36. Skye said:
    On 11 Jun at 3:17 am

    *clears throat* lookie what I just saw (at 11:16PM June 10th EST) 10. http://www.jemjabella.co.uk Report | Vote | View website 8.9 As for me (For Skyefairy; Ealain’s isn’t that good)…. Accessibility: 8.2 Quality: 8.1 Search: 6.6 Overall: 7.6

  37. Jordan said:
    On 11 Jun at 6:57 am

    @ Mike, Sitescore apparently doesn’t count Mint, but I’m sure if people requested/gave them feedback about it, they might put it into consideration. I know I just added GA to up my score because I’m a dirty bastard.

  38. Emily said:
    On 11 Jun at 9:18 am

    5.8 o.O My Incoming links, W3C compliance (damn free hosts…), Search engine placement and Keywords are between 1 and 2 o.o They keyword thing is hard to get right. You were top 10 a while ago, now you’re 11th

  39. Anne said:
    On 11 Jun at 10:21 am

    9.6 – Accessibility 9.6 – Quality 7.6 – Search 8.3 – Total Must improve my score. Heh. :D

  40. Skye said:
    On 11 Jun at 5:03 pm

    7.5 – Accessibility score 6.6 – Quality score 1.5 – Search score 5.0 – overall crap, search pulled me down. gotta go and make changes. but then the report states that “If the website is less than a month old, this information may be inaccurate”. my site’s just two weeks old. I think that’ll count as part of the inaccurate results lol sitescore is kinda addicting!

  41. Sam said:
    On 11 Jun at 7:13 pm

    i’ve never heard of it, but i suppose i have to try, right? i think you’ve sent them too much traffic, jem, because i’ve been queued ;)

  42. Erin said:
    On 11 Jun at 8:58 pm

    Man, these people are very harsh. 2.1/10 – Accessibility Score 2.6/10 – Quality Score 1.0/10 – Search Score 2.6/10 – Sitescore Ah well. You win some, you lose some, can’t please them all! Good luck reaching the top, Jem! I know you’ll get there.

  43. Chanel said:
    On 12 Jun at 12:47 am

    According to sitescore, one would need approx. 18 yrs of formal education to read my site content. I’m not sure what they based this on (are they insulting my writing skills or complimenting me on being able to write content above my level of formal education?) but that amused me and I just had to share. :P

  44. Sam said:
    On 12 Jun at 12:55 am

    My report won’t complete “for an unknown reason”. boooo. that’s the second time i’ve tried, too. :(

  45. Yoru said:
    On 12 Jun at 1:59 pm

    8.5/10 Accessibility Score 9.2/10 Quality Score 7.5/10 Search Score 8.6/10 Overall Although I’m pretty much satisfied with the scores, I’m quite bothered and confused why the report says “No English pages were found” while I’m sure that more than 90% of my site is in English.

  46. Sam said:
    On 12 Jun at 11:50 pm

    ah! it went through! :D 7.8 accessibility 7.1 quality 3.2 SEO 5.3 overall. hmm… i’ve got to work on my search engine op. then… a nice summer project i suppose!