312masonry.com, read 2 days ago. Back to the report
96 to 100 in 13 steps
Do them in this order. Each step says what to change, on which pages, and what it adds. Hand the whole plan to your agent, or work through it yourself.
Now #4,504 of 263,585Step 1 top 1%Step 13 full marks
Worked out from this read, with every step before it done. A score says pages are well formed. It does not say an assistant cites the site.
The steps
Each is one change across the pages named. When one is live, read the site again and mttr marks it done.
- 1
Fix description lengths
+1 point, to 97, and #2,058, 2,446 places up, and into the top 1%
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
50 pages, 31 of them under /reviews/
See the pages
- /
- /areas
- /areas/lakeview
- /areas/lincoln-square
- /areas/old-town
- /areas/wicker-park
- /author/hikit
- /author/masonry_admin
- /category/uncategorized
- /contact
- and 40 more in the copied plan
- 2
Make near-copy pages distinct
+1 point, to 98
Rewrite or merge pages that share most of their text. A page that only swaps a city or product name is what search engines treat as doorway or scaled content.
Once, for the whole site
- 3
Show sources on guides
Under a point
Link the sources for the guide's facts where a reader can see them. Official and primary sources carry the most weight.
4 pages under /guides/
See the pages
- /guides/glossary
- /guides/lintels
- /guides/signs-your-brick-needs-repair
- /guides/tuckpointing-vs-repointing
- 4
Answer the first question right under it
Under a point
Answer the first question in the paragraph right under it, in 25 to 90 words. Whether the paragraph truly answers is for the judge or a person to say.
3 pages under /guides/
See the pages
- /guides/glossary
- /guides/lintels
- /guides/tuckpointing-vs-repointing
- 5
Link to orphaned pages
Under a point
Link to each of these from a related page. A page only the sitemap knows about is treated as unimportant.
Once, for the whole site
- 6
Add an llms.txt
Under a point
Add /llms.txt: a short plain text map of the site for assistants. Its effect is unproven, so treat it as cheap insurance.
Once, for the whole site
- 7
Add real images to content
Under a point
Add a photo, drawing, or chart as an img with alt text. A CSS background image has no alt text and is not read as part of the page.
3 pages under /guides/
See the pages
- /guides/glossary
- /guides/signs-your-brick-needs-repair
- /guides/tuckpointing-vs-repointing
- 8
Put figures in tables
Under a point
Where the guide compares options or gives figures, put them in a table.
1 page
See the pages
- /guides/glossary
- 9
Phrase headings as questions
+1 point, to 99
Phrase at least one heading as the question a person would ask.
1 page
See the pages
- /services/lintel-works
- 10
Describe images
Under a point
Describe every content image in its alt text.
12 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about
- /areas
- /contact
- /cost
- /guides
- /privacy
- /projects
- /projects/page/2
- /reviews
- and 2 more in the copied plan
- 11
Add lists or tables
Under a point
Add a table, a list, or a definition list. Assistants quote these more readily than prose.
1 page
See the pages
- /services/lintel-works
- 12
Fix title lengths
Under a point
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
7 pages
See the pages
- /
- /guides/lintels
- /projects/masonry-fence-column-reconstruction-of-historic-temple-in-glenview
- /projects/new-office-masonry-construction-womens-health-group
- /reviews
- /services/brickrepair
- /services/masonry-restoration
- 13
Set each page's canonical address
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
4 pages
See the pages
- /author/hikit
- /author/masonry_admin
- /category/uncategorized
- /projects/page/2
2 more, to tidy up after 100
- 14
Allow pages to be indexed
Under a point
Remove noindex when the page is ready to be found.
2 pages
Steps for your host: Cloudflare, WordPress, Namecheap and moreSee the pages
- /privacy
- /terms
- 15
Link straight to the final address
Under a point
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
3 pages
See the pages
- /privacy
- /projects/page/2
- /terms
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 157 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/guides/signs-your-brick-needs-repair646 ms/services554 ms/527 ms/guides/glossary523 ms/guides/tuckpointing-vs-repointing504 ms
Fastest: /author/masonry_admin, 109 ms. Heaviest: /reviews, 18 KB.
Read from its home page’s code and the headers its server sent. A tool that loads later, or only on other pages, is not seen here.
WordPressPlatform
nginxServer
Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
- GGoogle AnalyticsAnalytics
Google FontsFonts
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: a General contractor named 312 Masonry. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- Facebook312Masonry
- Instagram312masonry
- pages with strong signs
- 0
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 15.5
A sign is not proof. Hidden characters can carry a watermark or instructions meant for an AI, and they come off with a clean copy of the text.
/fails 3: Fix description lengths, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/privacyfails 3: Allow pages to be indexed, Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/reviewsfails 3: Fix description lengths, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/termsfails 3: Allow pages to be indexed, Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/areasfails 2: Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/contactfails 2: Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/aboutfails 1: Describe images1 page/costfails 1: Describe images1 page/guidesfails 1: Describe images1 page/projectsfails 1: Describe images1 page/servicesfails 1: Describe images1 page/reviews/31 fail a rule. Worst: /reviews/alex-m, 1 rule31 pages
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