bartlettlake.com, read 3 days ago. Back to the report
96 to 100 in 7 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 #4,670 of 263,590Step 1 top 1%Step 7 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
Phrase headings as questions
+1 point, to 97, and #2,055, 2,615 places up, and into the top 1%
Phrase at least one heading as the question a person would ask.
3 pages
See the pages
- /boat-club
- /boat-rentals
- /jet-ski
- 2
Link straight to the final address
+1 point, to 98
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
9 pages
See the pages
- /about
- /boat-club
- /boat-rentals
- /boat-slip-storage
- /contact
- /jet-ski
- /paddle-board
- /party-yacht-reservations
- /privacy-policy
- 3
Speed up the server
+1 point, to 99
Cache pages or speed up the server. Crawlers give a slow site fewer visits.
Once, for the whole site
- 4
Add lists or tables
Under a point
Add a table, a list, or a definition list. Assistants quote these more readily than prose.
2 pages
See the pages
- /boat-club
- /boat-rentals
- 5
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
- 6
Set a share image
Under a point
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
2 pages
See the pages
- /contact
- /privacy-policy
- 7
Fix description lengths
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
1 page
See the pages
- /privacy-policy
1 more, to tidy up after 100
- 8
Describe images
Under a point
Describe every content image in its alt text.
The home page
Done since the first read
Make near-copy pages distinct
Done, seen on the read of October 22. It failed on 1 page before.
What else the read found
Half its pages take over 2,678 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.
/boat-club4.4 s/contact4.3 s/privacy-policy4.2 s/4.1 s/jet-ski3.6 s
Fastest: /boat-rentals, 737 ms. Heaviest: /about, 20 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
ApacheServer
Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
Google reCAPTCHALibrary
jQueryLibrary
Adobe FontsFonts
- page with strong signs
- 1
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 1
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 3.7
/boat-clubmarkdown never turned into formatting
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 1: Describe images1 page/boat-clubfails 3: Phrase headings as questions, Add lists or tables and Link straight to the final address1 page/boat-rentalsfails 3: Phrase headings as questions, Add lists or tables and Link straight to the final address1 page/privacy-policyfails 3: Fix description lengths, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/contactfails 2: Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/jet-skifails 2: Phrase headings as questions and Link straight to the final address1 page/aboutfails 1: Link straight to the final address1 page/boat-slip-storagefails 1: Link straight to the final address1 page/paddle-boardfails 1: Link straight to the final address1 page/party-yacht-reservationsfails 1: Link straight to the final address1 page
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