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Source Code of Webpage
What is Source Code?
The code in the computer program is converted into the machine language, this machine language is read by the machine and compiled in the images and function. This code is known as Source Code. Source Code is an important part of SEO, the reason behind this is it determines the correct execution of the webpage and provides information about the possible optimization potential. Therefore the optimization of the Source Code is part of technical SEO.
Source code for Web Pages:
For programmers source code is the backbone of the computer program. For online marketers, source code is an essential part that is not visible to regular users and visitors. In the source code errors related to the SEO can be detected and fixed in the source code. The source code also contains important essential information about the site. You can easily find the hidden links by analyzing the source code. Information in the source code about the CMS being used, markup, or metadata such as meta description or meta title in the Dublin Core. Contents of the site and canonical tags are visible in the source code. For marketing purposes tracking codes can also be found in the source code.
Usually, source code is distributed over several lines. To read the source code of the website, special web analysis programs, compilers and browsers can be used. Browsers like Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or Mozilla Firefox have the simple function by which the source code of the page can be displayed.
Relevance to SEO
Correct execution of the source code of a web page can be taken into account of ranking factors of the search engines like Google and others. A defective source code can result in the reduced functionality of the site and eventually the ranking will start declining. A text-to-code ratio is useful for on-page optimization.
The optimization of the source code is essential to reduce the loading time for a site. Since one of the ranking factors is the loading time, source code optimization is necessary for this reason. A lean source code enables the crawlers to index and finds the content more quickly. To crawl on a single page, require less time, and crawl in depth can be increased.
In simple and short, the simpler the source code of the site, the faster bots will crawl on the page.
Importance of viewing a website’s source code:
There are many cases and requirements to view the source code of the site. The most common are mentioned down below:
Best SEO practice indicates that the page has only one tag of H1. If in this case, you want to check, then you can navigate to one of your posts by using any of the methods which we described further in this article to view the HTML source code of the page. Then you can search for <h1> tags and verify that only one H1 tag is present on the page.
To find out that if a link has the tag of nofollow (which decreases the importance of that link for the SEO rankings), you have to view the HTML code of the page. Then check for the presence of the word “unfollow” within the elements <a></a>. You can do this to check the links on your site or of any other website.
A good and strong reason to analyze the site’s source code is to optimize the speed of the site or webpage. You can view the HTML of that page or site and can identify the elements (including the CSS and JS files), which can be removed to make the size of the page smaller and faster to download. Then with the assistance of other tools like Google’s PageSpeed Insights, you can continue to optimize the code further.
Methods to view the HTML source code of a website
How to view the HTML source code of a website on a Mac?
To view the source code of a site using Safari on Mac, first, navigate to the page of which you want to view the source code. Use the following keyboard shortcuts to view the code of the site: Option+Command+U
The alternative of this shortcut is to right-click on the page anywhere, select the “Show Page Source” from the menu.
To view the source of the site using Google Chrome on a Mac, navigate to the page, then use the keyboard shortcut to view the HTML of the site: Option+Command+U.
You can also right-click on the page anywhere, and then select the option “View Page Source” from the dropdown list.
When using Mozilla Firefox on the Mac, to view the source code of the site, use the shortcut: Command+U
How to view the HTML code on a PC?
When using Google Chrome on a PC, to view the source code of the site, use the keyboard shortcut: CTRL+U.
To view the source code using a Mozilla Firefox on a PC, use the keyboard shortcut to view the source code: CTRL+U.
When using Opera on a PC, to view the source code of a page, use the shortcut key: CTRL+U.
To view the source code of the site or page using the Microsoft Edge on a PC, use this keyboard shortcut: CTRL+SHIFT+I and F12.
Viewing the HTML code of a particular page element:
You can view particular page elements instead of viewing the HTML code of the whole page. To view, the particular page elements use the option of INSPECT ELEMENT which is available in all popular browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
The process of Inspect Element is straightforward.
This will open the developer tools and will display you the HTML code which is associated with the particular elements or section of the page.
How to download an entire website source code?
To download the HTML source code of the site, first, navigate to the page using the browser. Then select the option of “Save As” from the menu. You will be then prompted to select whether you want to download the whole page( which includes the images) or just the source code.
The option of download in all browsers are the same:
CONCLUSION:
Viewing your site’s source code can be a great and helping way to increase its SEO performance and verify that everything on the site is okay. The best part is that you don’t need to be a web developer or you need to have a lot of in-depth knowledge about the technical working of the site to pick your site’s source code.
To view the source code of the site is very easy and simple. The process is the same for all browsers. You can optionally download the code in a text file.
