Content Audits

I did content audits for three websites with similar themes. The general theme that I went for was basketball charity games of some sort. All three sites had some things in common such as a top horizontal navigation and clear depiction of the navigation. At first glance the sites seem to be set up well and with minimal things wrong navigation wise, but once I completed the audit of the sites many incorrect things arose. Starting off with the helmets vs shields site, this site had issues such as each page of the website had a header before the body copy which was a clickable text link however the link was to the page that you were currently on already. After going through the other site (footballhoops.com) I noticed things that were wrong with this site as well. This site has clear navigation at the top but as you click the links to pages and that page loads the incorrect page would then highlight and became confusing as to which page you were on. The last site was hoopsforheros, this site had good navigation going throughout each page the only thing was there was the same exact links on most pages. Possibly this site could be cut down in the number of pages and consolidated into a couple pages instead. Though the sites had some things that could definitely be changed, there was a solid base to start with. If these sites would change some minor things that were only noticed really once auditing all the content then the sites could be quite successful. I think by doing the content audits of sites the navigation mistakes come to the surface quickly. I feel this is a good thing to do for a companies site to make sure everything makes sense. Though tedious the end results of what surfaces is very important.