Plaintext Emails Test
What is it?
Check your webpage for plaintext email addresses. Any e-mail address posted in public is likely to be automatically collected by computer software used by bulk emailers (a process known as e-mail address harvesting). A spam harvester can read through the pages in your site and extract plaintext email addresses which are then added to bulk marketing databases (resulting in more inbox spam). There are several methods for email obfuscation.
Pass rate:
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Top 100 websites: 97%This value indicates the percent of top 100 most visited websites in the US that pass this test (in the past 12 months).
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All websites: 62%This value indicates the percent of all websites analyzed in SEO Site Checkup (500,000+) in the past 12 months.
| 2021 | 93% |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 99% |
| 2023 | 100% |
| 2024 | 97% |
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How do I fix it?
In order to pass this test you must make your email addresses invisible to email spiders. Note that the best option is to replace your entire contact mechanism with a contact form and using the POST method while submitting the form.
Other solutions are listed below:
- replace the at (@) and dot (.) characters
- replace text with images
- use email obfuscators
- hide email addresses using JavaScript or CSS trick
