How does your site look/act with JavaScript turned off?
Such a simple question yet most people I speak with don’t know the answer. Have you ever tried it? It’s a good thing to do every now and then, fire up your favoriate browser(it better be FireFox!) and go into the options(preferences) section to turn of JavaScript. Now, visit your page. Here are some things to check while you have JavaScript turnned off.
- Does your site look good?
Does anything happen with JavaScript off? Do menu’s not work, do images not load? - Can you get to all of your pages?
Make sure your links work. Sometimes without knowing it we install a plugin or script that requires JavaScript and this can hurt you site not only because your users can’t follow along but either can spiders. - Do your ads show?
This is probably a No for most people…and there is a problem with that. With some quick Google searches I found that around 6% of Internet users don’t have JavaScript enabled. Doesn’t sound like a huge number but when you take that there are over 1.2 Billion Internet users that translates to around 75 Million users who can’t see your ads!
This is such a simple task and it can be done in under ten minutes. I suggest you do this every few months just to make sure everything is still looking and acting the way it should. The ad issues it hard to solve because most ad companies only release JavaScript code, I plan on writing an article soon on how to avoid this problem.
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