Websites can be challenging to create, and there's no greater challenge in webdev than keeping your website up to date, meeting standards, and accessible to everyone who'd like to take a peek at it. It's a necessary task though, and while it's grueling, every developer should take the time to learn how to do these things and do them every once in a while to all the websites they own. If they don't, their website may become inaccessible to people who need accommodations or drop in SEO rankings, keeping their website from remaining relevant.
Now, let's talk about people who tell you to do something and then don't do it themselves, because I'm that exact person here. I've never analyzed my website's accessibility, nor optimized its SEO. I've never kept it up to date with standards, instead just keeping it presentable as best I can. But today it's time to change that! I'm going to walk you guys through how to run two different website audits and analyze the results as they pertain to my own website.
- Web.dev
- Lighthouse
Each of these audits provide me with a different look at three things about my website: the accessibility, how well it meets web standards, and how well it ranks in SEO. Using these audits, I can effectively keep my website modern, up to date, and accessible to all who wish to learn more about me and maybe hire me.
From both audits, I ended up realizing that I should definitely focus on optimizing my images, making my text contrast more, and including alt tags in all the images I embed. I should also probably stop using a template for my website and try to learn more Vue.js to make a new website from scratch, but that's a project for another time, isn't it?
Check out my video on this topic here: https://youtu.be/ate7upT980I
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