Website Code Quality

[-Rob-]

I have a Zenfolio based website www.BlackBullPhotography.com which I’ve tweeked recently and I’ve got it to the point where I’m fairly happy with it. It’s not exactly as I want it but I’m working within my own limitations of web design and what Zenfolio allows you to do and still be mobile compatible.

During my recent development of the site I’ve been running tests on Nibbler to make sure the site scores as highly as possible. First question is, has anyone used Nibbler before. Are the results to be trusted? Are there any similar websites out there that run better tests?

The one thing I would like to be able to improve is the code quality which is given as a score of 1 out of 10. Some of the code is created by Zenfolio for the page templates so that’s totally out of my control but a lot of the site is based on custom code that I have put in. Does anyone have any recommendations of what kind of code to use for it to be classed as ‘good code’?

 

[dejongj]

I've just run nibbler on my site and it gives you all the recommendations on what to fix. Can you be more specific on what downgraded elements you want to get fixed?

Also you know what personal code you've added and what was already there. The majority seems to be around obsolete tags that just don't exist, and using html instead of css on your pages to format it.

Without know what a vanilla pages looks like it will be hard to make any specific recommendations. You can always run then yourself through the w3c validator to compare and remove what you've done wrong.

The key question is whether any of that actually really makes a difference?