andersonraces.com, read 2 days ago. Back to the report
89 to 100 in 11 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 #38,715 of 264,411Step 1 top 10%Step 11 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
+3 points, to 92, and #15,150, 23,565 places up, and into the top 10%
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
100 pages, 92 of them under /events-list/
See the pages
- /
- /about
- /careers
- /contact-us
- /events-list
- /events-list/2025-ravine-lake-triathlon
- /events-list/7mc-trail-run
- /events-list/als-superhero-5k%2F10k-dash
- /events-list/apta-mn-%22move-%26-groove%22-5k
- /events-list/ashby-appreciation-days
- and 90 more in the copied plan
- 2
Describe images
+4 points, to 96
Describe every content image in its alt text.
96 pages, 92 of them under /events-list/
See the pages
- /
- /contact-us
- /events-list
- /events-list/2025-ravine-lake-triathlon
- /events-list/7mc-trail-run
- /events-list/als-superhero-5k%2F10k-dash
- /events-list/apta-mn-%22move-%26-groove%22-5k
- /events-list/ashby-appreciation-days
- /events-list/avon-spunktacular
- /events-list/awake-the-grapes
- and 86 more in the copied plan
- 3
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 98
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
99 pages, 92 of them under /events-list/
See the pages
- /about
- /careers
- /contact-us
- /events-list
- /events-list/2025-ravine-lake-triathlon
- /events-list/7mc-trail-run
- /events-list/als-superhero-5k%2F10k-dash
- /events-list/apta-mn-%22move-%26-groove%22-5k
- /events-list/ashby-appreciation-days
- /events-list/avon-spunktacular
- and 89 more in the copied plan
- 4
Fix title lengths
+1 point, to 99
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
21 pages, 15 of them under /events-list/
See the pages
- /about
- /careers
- /contact-us
- /events-list/7mc-trail-run
- /events-list/gf10
- /events-list/grom-grinder
- /events-list/https%3A%2F%2Ftcpride.org%2Frainbow-run%2F
- /events-list/leading-ladies-marathon
- /events-list/mac-triathlon
- /events-list/run-baby-run
- and 11 more in the copied plan
- 5
Serve a robots.txt
Under a point
Serve a plain text /robots.txt.
Once, for the whole site
- 6
Publish a sitemap
Under a point
Publish /sitemap.xml listing every page that should rank, and name it in robots.txt.
Once, for the whole site
- 7
Settle on one address
Under a point
Redirect http, https, www, and the bare domain to one address, so the site is not indexed as several.
Once, for the whole site
- 8
Speed up the server
Under a point
Cache pages or speed up the server. Crawlers give a slow site fewer visits.
Once, for the whole site
- 9
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
- 10
Add structured data
Under a point
Add valid JSON-LD that says what the page is.
7 pages
See the pages
- /about
- /careers
- /contact-us
- /events-list
- /results
- /services
- /sponsors-partners
- 11
Set each page's canonical address
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
3 pages under /events-list/
See the pages
- /events-list/coco%27s-heart-almost-5k-fun-run
- /events-list/endurance-united-go-spring%21
- /events-list/lookin%27-for-a-cure-5k---minneapolis
3 more, to tidy up after 100
- 12
Use one main heading
Under a point
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
3 pages
See the pages
- /
- /contact-us
- /services
- 13
Allow pages to be indexed
Under a point
Remove noindex when the page is ready to be found.
1 page
Steps for your host: Cloudflare, WordPress, Namecheap and moreSee the pages
- /results
- 14
Replace unsupported sales claims
Under a point
Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.
1 page
See the pages
- /events-list/wine-run-5k---wild-mountain-
What else the read found
Half its pages take over 1,590 ms to start answering, past the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. Caching or a faster server helps every page at once. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/events-list/hopekids-5k%2F10k2.7 s/events-list/prior-lake-dental-dash2.5 s/events-list/gf102.5 s/events-list/hellbender2.3 s/events-list/ramsey-dash-and-dine-5k2.3 s
Fastest: /, 24 ms. Heaviest: /events-list, 295 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.
WixPlatform
ReactFramework
CloudflareHosting
- FFastlyHosting
- GGoogle AnalyticsAnalytics
- pages with strong signs
- 47
- hidden characters
- 170
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 1.7
/resultshidden characters a reader cannot see/events-listhidden characters a reader cannot see/events-list/mikes-meet-cross-countryhidden characters a reader cannot see/events-list/burnsville-cross-country-meethidden characters a reader cannot see/events-list/eagan-cross-country-meethidden characters a reader cannot see
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: Use one main heading, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/contact-usfails 6: Add structured data, Use one main heading and Fix description lengths1 page/resultsfails 6: Allow pages to be indexed, Add structured data and Fix description lengths1 page/servicesfails 5: Add structured data, Use one main heading and Fix description lengths1 page/aboutfails 4: Add structured data, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/careersfails 4: Add structured data, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/events-listfails 4: Add structured data, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/sponsors-partnersfails 4: Add structured data, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/events-list/92 fail a rule. Worst: /events-list/7mc-trail-run, 4 rules92 pages
The read stopped at its page limit, so pages no link leads to cannot be told from pages it did not reach, and neither is reported.
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