brightworks.net, read 2 days ago. Back to the report
91 to 100 in 10 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 #23,112 of 264,359Step 1 top 5%Step 10 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
Describe images
+2 points, to 93, and #10,823, 12,289 places up, and into the top 5%
Describe every content image in its alt text.
77 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about
- /contact-us
- /our-team/alan-cabral
- /our-team/alexandra-ramsden
- /our-team/alivia-green
- /our-team/ana-ruiz
- /our-team/angela-wisely
- /our-team/anisur-rahman
- /our-team/bernardo-ruiz
- and 67 more in the copied plan
- 2
Fix description lengths
+3 points, to 96
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
74 pages
See the pages
- /
- /672-2
- /758-2
- /765-2
- /about
- /careers
- /contact-us
- /cookie-policy-au
- /cookie-policy-br
- /cookie-policy-ca
- and 64 more in the copied plan
- 3
Fix title lengths
+1 point, to 97
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
37 pages, 24 of them under /our-team/
See the pages
- /
- /about
- /careers
- /contact-us
- /disclaimer
- /our-team
- /our-team/alan-cabral
- /our-team/alivia-green
- /our-team/ana-ruiz
- /our-team/angela-wisely
- and 27 more in the copied plan
- 4
Use one main heading
+1 point, to 98
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
18 pages
See the pages
- /672-2
- /765-2
- /cookie-policy-au
- /cookie-policy-br
- /cookie-policy-ca
- /cookie-policy-eu
- /cookie-policy-uk
- /cookie-policy-za
- /disclaimer
- /opt-out-preferences
- and 8 more in the copied plan
- 5
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.
4 pages
See the pages
- /672-2
- /758-2
- /765-2
- /test-team-page
- 6
Show sources on guides
+1 point, to 99
Link the sources for the guide's facts where a reader can see them. Official and primary sources carry the most weight.
4 pages
See the pages
- /672-2
- /758-2
- /765-2
- /test-team-page
- 7
Put the text in the HTML
Under a point
Put the page text in the HTML the server sends. Most AI crawlers do not run scripts.
4 pages
See the pages
- /672-2
- /758-2
- /765-2
- /test-team-page
- 8
Phrase headings as questions
Under a point
Phrase at least one heading as the question a person would ask.
4 pages
See the pages
- /672-2
- /758-2
- /765-2
- /test-team-page
- 9
Add depth to thin pages
Under a point
Add true, specific detail until the page covers its subject.
4 pages
See the pages
- /672-2
- /758-2
- /765-2
- /test-team-page
- 10
Add lists or tables
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Add a table, a list, or a definition list. Assistants quote these more readily than prose.
4 pages
See the pages
- /672-2
- /758-2
- /765-2
- /test-team-page
6 more, to tidy up after 100
- 11
Put figures in tables
Under a point
Where the guide compares options or gives figures, put them in a table.
4 pages
See the pages
- /672-2
- /758-2
- /765-2
- /test-team-page
- 12
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.
4 pages
See the pages
- /672-2
- /758-2
- /765-2
- /test-team-page
- 13
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
- 14
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
- 15
Add breadcrumb data
Under a point
Add BreadcrumbList schema so the page has a place in the site.
3 pages
See the pages
- /672-2
- /758-2
- /765-2
- 16
Replace unsupported sales claims
Under a point
Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.
1 page
See the pages
- /our-work
Done since the first read
Link to pages from related content
Done, seen on the read of October 19. It failed on 4 pages before.
Fix pages that fail to load
Done, seen on the read of October 19. It failed on 159 pages before.
Link to orphaned pages
Done, seen on the read of October 19. It failed on 1 page before.
Settle on one address
Done, seen on the read of October 19. It failed on 1 page before.
What else the read found
Half its pages take over 802 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.
/our-work5.2 s/our-team/karin-miller2.6 s/our-team/dejana-ricca2.5 s/our-team/alivia-green2.1 s/practice-area/energy-analysis-modeling1.9 s
Fastest: /, 83 ms. Heaviest: /our-work, 53 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
CloudflareHosting
WP EngineHosting
Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
- GGoogle AnalyticsAnalytics
jQueryLibrary
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: an Organization named Brightworks. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- LinkedInbrightworks-sustainability
- pages with strong signs
- 8
- hidden characters
- 19
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 0.5
/practice-areashidden characters a reader cannot see/our-team/jack-dinninghidden characters a reader cannot see/practice-area/achieving-net-zero-carbonhidden characters a reader cannot see/practice-area/commissioninghidden characters a reader cannot see/practice-area/energy-analysis-modelinghidden 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: Fix description lengths, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/672-2fails 11: Answer the first question right under it, Put the text in the HTML and Show sources on guides1 page/765-2fails 11: Answer the first question right under it, Put the text in the HTML and Show sources on guides1 page/758-2fails 10: Answer the first question right under it, Put the text in the HTML and Show sources on guides1 page/test-team-pagefails 10: Answer the first question right under it, Put the text in the HTML and Show sources on guides1 page/aboutfails 3: Fix description lengths, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/contact-usfails 3: Fix description lengths, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/disclaimerfails 3: Use one main heading, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/our-workfails 3: Describe images, Replace unsupported sales claims and Fix title lengths1 page/practice-areasfails 3: Fix description lengths, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/who-we-servefails 3: Fix description lengths, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/careersfails 2: Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page
And 19 more parts of the site.
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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