Website Report Card Explained

Bumblebee Analytics Explained

We try not to tell you what paramaters to shoot for. Since the search engines all have different tastes, none of us can be sure exatly what is going to work. The website report card is a tool to show you how your website is viewed and point out what ratios, speeds and limits your website may have.

Estimated Download Time Analysis - Download times are critical. People often make the mistake of dumping everything on the home page. Those newbies have broadband connections with subper duper speed accelerator and turb boost. They forget that some of us are still on dial up. Broadband is not accesible in all locations and dial up is still king. If your site takes 2 minutes to load on one page, the visior is already 3 clicks away before the page is 25% loaded. People wont wait. And why should they? If you make the site too big, then you are the ultimate big loser.

Page Size & Content Analysis - Content size is the actual size of the page. This is used to determine download times. It is also a good indicator of how large the page is and how it will load on older computers with less RAM. May people build pages, add pics and pics and have no idea how much that ads up to. The report will tell you exactly how much all the parts of the page add up to. A good page should be under 100K in total size.

Keywords - People tend to think there is some magick to announce keywords to the search engines. "Oh, Mr Google, please list me under >blah blah<" To that we say "Ha HA!". The keywords google looks at are the works in the page, for example the words in this page. If I type "Hello Mr Google", in time this website will appear in the google results when searching for "Hellow Mr Google". So our keyword analyzer shows you the words used in the page and the ferquency they are used. Frequency is very important, because if used too much, they see it as spam, if too little, they don't see it at all. What is the right frequency? Your guess is as good as anyone's.

Accessibility Report & Bandwidth Limits - If you server is bandwidth limited, then the system administrator is preventing full use of accessible bandwidth. This generally means you will be subject to slow downloads, unresponsive requests and often denied requests for conectivity. We should point out that without limits, you are still constrained by paramaters in an upline, such as a router. If a server only has 1 meg of available bandwidth then bandwidth limiting can help each website share the bandwidth rather than letting one website use all of it.

The best configuration is open bandwidth access and busrtable data transfer. If your server uses limiting, there is likely not enough bandwidth to go around if every website on the server needs it at the same time. This can result is very poor performance and often the inability for seach engines to index a website.

Text Ranking & SEO Weight - Search engines read a page from top to bottom. Regardless of how the page is actually displayed by a browser. The most relavet text is the text that appears first on the page. This section breaks the text into sections to show you which text is most relavent.

Internal Sitemap - The sitemap wil show you which pages were directly accessible from the main page. This will show you if pages can be accessed by the search engine spiders. If you have pages that are not linked or the links are buried in deep directories often called "Deep Linking" the spiders may never get to those pages.

Additionaly, content ratios are shown. If a site is unballanced, where some pages are huge and and others are short, this can influence search engine listings. Having a ballanced ratio is important.

External Links - Here we list the extrenal sites you have linked to. It is important that if you link to outside websites from your homepage, that the links are to similar content. Linking off topic with result in poor page rank. Linkimg to a site that is banned or considered to be spam will likely exclude your page from the index completely. Google refers to this as linking to "Bad Neghiborhoods". One bad link can kill your website.