At Websites for Wineries - We design Winery Websites that are stylish, effective, affordable and user friendly for winery tourism promotion and wine marketing via the internet. 'Vine to Wine Online'

Website Evaluation

At Websites for Wineries we recommend and conduct evaluations for all our websites.

There are a number of good online evaluations you can use to optimize yout site's performance:

Website Optimization - This free web site tests the speed of your site to improve website performance. Enter a URL to calculate page size, composition, and download time. The script calculates the size of individual elements and sums up each type of web page component. Based on these page characteristics the script then offers advice on how to improve page load time.

Site Report Card - Site Report Card provides free website analysis, optimization and promotion reports. Their tools offer valuable information to help improve your web pages and increase your search engine ranking. They provide detailed reports on various aspects of your web pages including:
Broken Links; Misspelled Words; HTML Validation; Load Time Analysis; Meta Tag Optimization; Image Optimization; Search Engine Inclusion; Site Popularity; Keyword Analysis

These tools provide good information on loading speeds, word counts and also evaluate how well your site will go in getting litsed by the major browsers such as Google and Yahoo.

Decanter.com provded a summary of the assessment of California wineries 2,200 winery websites surveyed.

The company involved Winery Website Report offers to The Winery Web Site Report helps you understand how to improve your Web site to increase its visitor effectiveness, leading to improved sales of your wine (both online and offline).

At Websites for Wineries we are developing a similar tool for Australian Wineries and we will be publishing our evaluation of Australian Winery Websites shortly.

We will perform these checks to evalauate and optimize the performance of your site as part of the final testing processes.

Contact Us for further information. We can also evaluate your existing site for you and we will send you a detailed report.

Website Evaluation - Test for Efficiency, Speed and Search Engine Optimization

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Building Your Client-Orientated Website

>> Identify Primary User
      Groups


>> Choose a Client       Orientated Style


>> Ensure Navigation
      is Clear


>> Customise for
      Client's Needs


>> Make sure Information
      is Adequate


>> Get Feedback from Users


>> Finalise, Test & Upload

Resources & Information

>> Why have a Website?

>> The Target Audience

>> What to Expect?

>> How far to go with the
         design?

>> How many Wineries
        have Websites?

>> The Good, The Bad
        and The Ugly?

>> Website Statistics

>> Website Evaluation

>> Order Forms

>> E-commerce

>> FLASH sites

>> Web Standards

>> Marketing your Site

>> Getting listed

>> Local, Regional Listings

>> Online Tourism

>> Advertising

>> Multimedia & The Web

>> Newsletters, Wine Club

>> Keeping a Site Fresh

>> News & Updates

>> Content Management
        Systems

Websites for Wineries