RWT scored a 8.2 with SiteScore
Silktide provides a nifty little tool called SiteScore that assesses websites according to a variety of standards. While in the end, it is just a score with a nice little button, the service does provide a quick way to assess the health and viability of a website.
There are five main categories of scoring:
- Marketing
- Design
- Accessibility
- Experience
- Visitor Rating
The marketing category assesses link popularity and alexa rating. It also assesses a small number of keywords to see if the site can be found.
Design covers more ground and looks at images, speed, size of files, forms, fonts, frame, tables or CSS, page titles, text, etc.
Accessibility assesses how compliant a web site is with WC3 standards and the British Disability Discrimination Act. I have some work to do here. If only WordPress would stop hanging out the odd paragraph tag after certain kinds of line breaks!
Experience seeks to evaluate the satisfaction of users to the website. This seems very subjective. SiteScore seeks to find the number of features available to determine a score. This category seems the most vague and thus the most difficult to change.
Visitor Rating uses the score given to the website by other SiteScore users. Since, I have none, this affects my score. Though this kind of system is ripe for abuse.
All in all it provides a few minutes of fun and always a quick “check-up” on website health. Run it for your own web site to find areas where you need to improve.
The button below updates as my score changes:
[tags]usability, sitescore[/tags]
Posted by Paul Flyer on Thursday, June 15th, 2006 in Usability
