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Obsessing About Your Website? Take a Look at Nibbler

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Real Estate Broker/Owner with Home Jane Realty BRE# 01439865

There are numerous free sites where you can check out anything and everything to do with your website: load time, popularity, SEO compatibility, etc. but most of these will give you an overview of a few things, and to dig down deeper you are going to have to upgrade to a paid version.

Nibbler is no excception. For the nitty gritty you will have to upgrade, but it gives you a great overview of your status in the internet world and, best of all, you can pull up all your frenemies and compare stats in an an eassy-to-understand version.

Before I started messing with my site I think I was in the low two-millionth most popular website on the planet, but when you fiddle, something burns. And when I switched from http to https, which I hope most of you have done or are considering doing - Google likes those sites more, and if you require registration it certainly helps - I dropped to the mid eight millionth most (un)popular website in the world.

I have worked my way back up to the mid four million level, as I think Google realized my https site is the same as http, but that is still a huge drop.

Nibbler looks at your linking strategy and social media interaction and quite a few other factors, again superficially, but it does give you an idea and you can pull up your competitors' sites alongsite to see how you are faring against them. Each section is grade out of 10.

If I understood all the lingo and how to correct things myself I would consider buying a subscription, but I can imagine the glazed look in my eyes when I see the detailed analysis. I don't even really undestand Google Analytics and am looking forward to the enhanced Search Console coming soon, as I think that my be easier to work with.

I ramble. The reason I like Nibbler is because you can see how you are doing in your market area of how someone you are curious about it doing. But beware what you ask for. When you have an 8.3 in something and your competitor has a 10 obsessing could start.

Nibble away.

Comments (59)

Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

Matthew Klinowski, PA Well that's good news. I wish I could jump on the fixes that quickly.

May 08, 2018 12:24 PM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

Jeff Dowler, CRS Yep, that is my prooblem too. Plus you really do need to pay for the full analysis and I would be even more lost.

May 08, 2018 12:28 PM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

Bipin Chandriani Sorry to stir the pot. Keeping our websites up to date is a never ending project.

May 08, 2018 12:29 PM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

John Wiley Yep, what can bring us a good deal of business is certainly a challenge to get right. 

May 08, 2018 12:30 PM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

Bob Brown You are absolutely right. It is difficult to keep up, and it hurts when you see your traffic start to subside.

May 08, 2018 12:31 PM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

Laura Allen, Lake Tahoe - Truckee Real Estate for Sale www.TahoeLauraLuxuryHomes.com I will have to check out which IDX you switched to. That is a major chore also. I hope you got some good tips from Nibbler.

May 08, 2018 12:33 PM
Melissa Spittel
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage - Westminster, MD
"Achieving Results Together "

Never heard of Nibbler before, but just ran the test of my website. Thanks so much for sharing this valuable resource!

May 09, 2018 10:31 AM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

Melissa Spittel I hope it was good news. In any event, it is just an overview, but something to think about.

May 09, 2018 01:47 PM
John Henry, Florida Architect
John Henry Masterworks Design International, Inc. - Orlando, FL
Residential Architect, Luxury Custom Home Design

Something I never heard of before that has great use to help optimize any website.  Thanks very much!

May 10, 2018 03:53 PM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

John Henry I hope it helps and doesn't drive you too nuts.

May 11, 2018 11:59 AM
PeterMark SEO
PeterMarkSEO - Holiday, FL
Real Estate Technology, SEO Web Development

Hi Jane, thank you for this great find. I am using it daily in my SEO business now.  Frenemies LOL

May 15, 2018 04:34 PM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

Peter Mark Hmmm. Do I get commission?  

May 16, 2018 03:43 PM
Debe Maxwell, CRS
Savvy + Company (704) 491-3310 - Charlotte, NC
The RIGHT CHARLOTTE REALTOR!

WOW! I can't keep up with you, Janie! GEEZ! I'm checking out the site now - although I'm sure you've already checked mine! 

As for the link you texted me, I revised my contact forms and realized that I wasn't even receiving contacts when they sent questions on my site! OY VEY!

Have a great weekend!

May 26, 2018 01:16 PM
Georgie Hunter R(S) 58089
Hawai'i Life Real Estate Brokers - Haiku, HI
Maui Real Estate sales and lifestyle info

I might take a peek but hope I don't end up down the rabbit hole.  Sometimes I think we were better off before all this nonsense.  Time spent studying numbers and graphs doesn't necessarily put food on the table.

May 27, 2018 07:14 PM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

Debe Maxwell, CRS Don't you just love that with contact forms. You need to check regularly because you never know when the plugin is going to break. Glad you found it.

May 29, 2018 03:32 PM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

Georgie Hunter R(S) 58089 In my case it has been my main source of leads for the pasty few years. Hence the obsession. 

May 29, 2018 03:33 PM
Jane Chaulklin-Schott
TEAMCONNECT REALTY - (407) 394-9766 - Orlando, FL
TeamConnect Luxury Homes - Orlando, Florida, 32836

Thank you so much for sharing.  Never heard of Nibbler before and will definitely check out.

Jul 03, 2018 03:30 PM
Dorte Engel
RE/MAX Leading Edge - Bowie, MD
ABC - Annapolis, Bowie, Crofton & rest of Maryland

Dear Jane,

Always something new, no? 

Aug 06, 2018 11:23 AM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

Dörte Engel Indeed there is.

Aug 08, 2018 11:53 AM
Jane Peters
Home Jane Realty - Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles real estate concierge services

Jane Chaulklin-Schott That will give you something else to obsess about if uou are like me with your website.

Aug 08, 2018 11:54 AM