cabrachicago.com, read 1 day ago. Back to the report
88 to 100 in 9 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 #40,636 of 263,585Step 1 top 10%Step 9 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 title lengths
+2 points, to 90, and #25,824, 14,812 places up, and into the top 10%
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
14 pages
See the pages
- /about
- /brunch
- /brunch-menu
- /contact
- /dinner-menu
- /drink-menu
- /gallery-3
- /grazing-hour-menu
- /join-our-team
- /lunch-menu
- and 4 more in the copied plan
- 2
Fix description lengths
+2 points, to 92
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
11 pages
See the pages
- /brunch
- /dinner-menu
- /drink-menu
- /gallery-3
- /grazing-hour-menu
- /join-our-team
- /menu
- /press
- /private-dining
- /site-map
- and 1 more in the copied plan
- 3
Use one main heading
+2 points, to 94
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
6 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about
- /home
- /private-dining
- /site-map
- /website-accessibility-statement
- 4
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 96
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
17 pages
See the pages
- /about
- /brunch
- /brunch-menu
- /contact
- /dinner-menu
- /drink-menu
- /gallery-3
- /grazing-hour-menu
- /home
- /join-our-team
- and 7 more in the copied plan
- 5
Set a share image
+1 point, to 97
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
16 pages
See the pages
- /about
- /brunch
- /brunch-menu
- /contact
- /dinner-menu
- /drink-menu
- /gallery-3
- /grazing-hour-menu
- /join-our-team
- /lunch-menu
- and 6 more in the copied plan
- 6
Fix pages that fail to load
+1 point, to 98
Fix or remove the link. Every linked page should return 200.
2 pages
See the pages
- /dinner-menu-1
- /gallery
- 7
Link to orphaned pages
+1 point, to 99
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
- 8
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
- 9
Describe images
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Describe every content image in its alt text.
5 pages
See the pages
- /
- /about
- /gallery-3
- /home
- /private-dining
1 more, to tidy up after 100
- 10
Set each page's canonical address
Under a point
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
1 page
See the pages
- /home
Done since the first read
Add a tap-to-call link
Done, seen on the read of October 24. It failed on 16 pages before.
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 148 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/menu302 ms/brunch293 ms/home276 ms/website-accessibility-statement253 ms/site-map230 ms
Fastest: /drink-menu, 28 ms. Heaviest: the home page, 29 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.
SquarespacePlatform
- GGoogle AnalyticsAnalytics
Meta PixelMarketing
Adobe FontsFonts
- pages with strong signs
- 0
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 5.8
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 2: Use one main heading and Describe images1 page/dinner-menu-1passes every rule1 page/gallerypasses every rule1 page/private-diningfails 6: Use one main heading, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/aboutfails 5: Use one main heading, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/gallery-3fails 5: Fix description lengths, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/site-mapfails 5: Use one main heading, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/brunchfails 4: Fix description lengths, Fix title lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/dinner-menufails 4: Fix description lengths, Fix title lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/drink-menufails 4: Fix description lengths, Fix title lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/grazing-hour-menufails 4: Fix description lengths, Fix title lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/homefails 4: Set each page's canonical address, Use one main heading and Describe images1 page
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