Hi it's Dale here from Business Blueprint
and welcome to another video
This time we're going to be going through a business tech tool. This is one
that we have found recently. It's been very useful so we're going to go and
check it out right now. It's called Website Grader. You can go and you can do
a Google search on website grader or you can type in this particular URL so its
website.grader.com so there's two dots in there
website.grader.com
that's where you go. Now when you go to the actual website what you can do is
you can actually put in your URL. Your domain name. So for me I put in
businessblueprint.com.au
Now once you put in your website and if you want you can put
in your email address but that's optional then you actually click a
button which is basically grade my website and then what basically happens
is you wait about 10 seconds and basically a bunch of robots go and
look at your website and then basically send back information to this particular
service and within under 10 seconds then effectively generates a report saying
how good or not good your website is based on a number of different factors
so when I do this a little while back the score that I got was 84 out of a
hundred which was the score and it basically told me where I was doing well
and also where I needed to improve in terms of my website as well. So it
actually grades the website in a number of different areas. One is performance
Another one is how mobile friendly it actually is. One is that do you have some
of your SEO factors on the actual website and also what about the security
Do you have some good security in place to stop this website from being hacked
so I got full marks in terms of mobile performance in terms of SEO and also in
terms of security as well. The thing that was basically not where it needed to be
for me was in terms of the performance which is basically the speed and that's
because I've got quite a lot of information on the actual homepage of
the actual website so we're looking to kind of
simplify that a little bit and to make it even faster to actually load.
So what you do again you go to website.grader.com
You put in your URL. You click a button
to test your website. Wait about 10 seconds and then instantly your
report will be online. You can see what or how your website is performing
overall. You can see how it's performing in different areas and if you scroll
down it basically then tells you what you need to fix on your website in order
to improve the actual performance. So it basically breaks down those areas of
performance, security, also the SEO factors and also the other factor as
well which is how mobile friendly it is and basically tells you what you
need to do in those areas. So here's some suggestions that makes to me in terms of
improving the performance of the actual website. I've all got full marks already
in mobile so I'm fine there. Fine in terms of our SEO as well with page
titles, meta tags, heading sitemap all those things are good but if it's not
good for you it'll have an X there and tell you basically what you can fix and
then you can also print off your report if you like as well. Now the reason why I
think this is really good is it makes it really simple especially for a non
technical person to basically get a benchmark score of how their website is
performing right now and then if you're going to be getting a website developer
to do some work on your website rather than just saying can you improve my
website you can actually now tell them what specifically to improve and then
you've got a way of checking if they actually did the work or not so you can
set the tasks and then maybe log back in a week later or two weeks there do
another test and hopefully a lot of those reds have then turned to greens
and your score has gone up okay. So I've given you basically a screenshot demo of
what it is and how it works so now we're going to start to wrap up this video.
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So go ahead and I check out that website. You'll be glad you did.
Thanks so much for watching this video. I'm sure you'll find this tool very very useful
and this is just one of hundreds of tools that I teach so make sure you tune
in for another video coming up real soon.
Bye for now