Wednesday 16 March 2016

LO4 - User Testing

Navigation 

Judging by my user test plans my navigation works fine, the navigation bar works correctly and can lead the user to each page that has been named on it. This includes the Home, Store, Hydraulics Range, Royal Armouries Range, YouTube, Blog, About pages, all lead to the correctly titled page with the necessary content on it. All of my links at the bottom right of of the website that lead to social media work fine, these include Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Google Plus each ones leads to the small machines social media page for the specific site. On the YouTube page my user test plans indicate that YouTube videos play on the site as they have been embedded correctly.  

Internal and External Hyperlinks

     Each page opens on my navigation bar in a correct manner, and leads to the labeled page. Also the social media links open up other websites, to the correct social media page. Also the subscribe button at the top left of the YouTube page works in a correct manner and will either come up with a google log in to fulfil the action or it will just subscribe the user to the YouTube feed if they are already logged in. 

     Page Load Times

     My page load time doesn't seem to vary between the devices that my users tested it on. Which varied between Apple Macs and Windows Computers. All the content loads up on each of the pages. The image gallery on the About page takes the longest amount of time to load up, but they load up in a fair amount pif time that isn't time consuming in the slightest.   

     Performance of Website when using Different Browsers
      
     My website works fine on the three browsers that it was tested on including, Chrome, Safari and Firefox. There is no noticeable difference on each of the browsers which is an ideal result as Chrome and Firefox have the most users on them. 

    Consistency of House Style

    The House Style of my website is consistent between each page, with a grey and white theme throughout each page to try and give the website an appearance that looks professional and not tacky. Also the logo is consistent at the top left hand side of the page, this also links the user to the home page which is a convention of most websites. I have also used the same fonts throughout the website as well as the same style purple line that helps separate information. 
    Improvements

    Even though my feedback was all positive looking back retrospectively there are quite a few things I would do differently or change. For example I would have made the blog fit more into the house design by giving it grey or blue arrows as opposed to green. The green works fine but is just a little inconsistent compared to the other pages.

      External links, I need to remove fancy as it seems unprofessional as no other real companies use fancy.