choosewashingtonstate.com, read 3 days ago. Back to the report
83 to 100 in 6 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 #85,325 of 263,587Step 1 top 25%Step 6 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
Add a tap-to-call link
+6 points, to 89, and #32,224, 53,101 places up, and into the top 25%
Add a tap-to-call phone link.
100 pages
See the pages
- /
- /15538-2
- /7-billion-counting
- /a-safer-way-to-play
- /advanced-manufacturing-meets-life-sciences-research
- /air-bnb-takes-residence-washington
- /amazon-one-company-job-creator
- /and-you-thought-your-plasma-was-cool
- /apple-grows-washington-state
- /apple-tackles-ai-seattle
- and 90 more in the copied plan
- 2
Answer the first question right under it
+3 points, to 92
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.
99 pages
See the pages
- /15538-2
- /7-billion-counting
- /a-safer-way-to-play
- /advanced-manufacturing-meets-life-sciences-research
- /air-bnb-takes-residence-washington
- /amazon-one-company-job-creator
- /and-you-thought-your-plasma-was-cool
- /apple-grows-washington-state
- /apple-tackles-ai-seattle
- /artificial-intelligence-changing-lives-economy
- and 89 more in the copied plan
- 3
Phrase headings as questions
+3 points, to 95
Phrase at least one heading as the question a person would ask.
99 pages
See the pages
- /15538-2
- /7-billion-counting
- /a-safer-way-to-play
- /advanced-manufacturing-meets-life-sciences-research
- /air-bnb-takes-residence-washington
- /amazon-one-company-job-creator
- /and-you-thought-your-plasma-was-cool
- /apple-grows-washington-state
- /apple-tackles-ai-seattle
- /artificial-intelligence-changing-lives-economy
- and 89 more in the copied plan
- 4
Add depth to thin pages
+2 points, to 97
Add true, specific detail until the page covers its subject.
99 pages
See the pages
- /15538-2
- /7-billion-counting
- /a-safer-way-to-play
- /advanced-manufacturing-meets-life-sciences-research
- /air-bnb-takes-residence-washington
- /amazon-one-company-job-creator
- /and-you-thought-your-plasma-was-cool
- /apple-grows-washington-state
- /apple-tackles-ai-seattle
- /artificial-intelligence-changing-lives-economy
- and 89 more in the copied plan
- 5
Put figures in tables
+1 point, to 98
Where the guide compares options or gives figures, put them in a table.
99 pages
See the pages
- /15538-2
- /7-billion-counting
- /a-safer-way-to-play
- /advanced-manufacturing-meets-life-sciences-research
- /air-bnb-takes-residence-washington
- /amazon-one-company-job-creator
- /and-you-thought-your-plasma-was-cool
- /apple-grows-washington-state
- /apple-tackles-ai-seattle
- /artificial-intelligence-changing-lives-economy
- and 89 more in the copied plan
- 6
Fix description lengths
+2 points, to 100, and full marks
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
90 pages
See the pages
- /15538-2
- /7-billion-counting
- /a-safer-way-to-play
- /advanced-manufacturing-meets-life-sciences-research
- /air-bnb-takes-residence-washington
- /amazon-one-company-job-creator
- /and-you-thought-your-plasma-was-cool
- /apple-tackles-ai-seattle
- /artificial-intelligence-changing-lives-economy
- /artisan-aircraft-builder-takes-flight-commercial-production
- and 80 more in the copied plan
6 more, to tidy up after 100
- 7
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
- 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
Under a point
Describe every content image in its alt text.
10 pages
See the pages
- /
- /a-safer-way-to-play
- /apple-grows-washington-state
- /battlefield-medicine-gets-new-ally
- /brewing-capital-u-s
- /google-breaks-ground-new-digs
- /life-science-innovation-collaboration
- /seattle-recognized-top-5-innovative-centers
- /site-selector-guild
- /wemco-expansion-pays-off-big
- 10
Fix title lengths
Under a point
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
8 pages
See the pages
- /a-safer-way-to-play
- /battlefield-medicine-gets-new-ally
- /cleaner-quieter-faster-air-travel-coming-airport-near
- /cloud-expertise-washington-expands
- /collaboration-innovation-hallmarks-washington-business
- /vigor-add-new-dry-dock-capacity
- /want-fries-meal-likely-came-washington-state
- /washingtons-century-know-featured-farnborough-air-show
- 11
Use one main heading
Under a point
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
The home page
- 12
Set a share image
Under a point
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
The home page
Done since the first read
Show when guides were updated
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 65 pages before.
Make near-copy pages distinct
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 1 page before.
Replace unsupported sales claims
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 11 pages before.
What else the read found
Half its pages take over 1,707 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.
/artificial-intelligence-changing-lives-economy2.0 s/collaboration-innovation-hallmarks-washington-business2.0 s/future-aircraft-design-manufacturing1.9 s/students-launch-rocket1.9 s/apple-tackles-ai-seattle1.9 s
Fastest: /washington-state-3rd-innovation-1st-stem, 1,433 ms. Heaviest: the home page, 48 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
- GGoogle AnalyticsAnalytics
jQueryLibrary
Google FontsFonts
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: an Organization named Washington State Department of Commerce. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- Facebookchoosewashington
- Xchoosewa
- PinterestchooseWAstate
- YouTubeDepartmentOfCommerce
- pages with strong signs
- 0
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 2.5
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 4: Use one main heading, Add a tap-to-call link and Describe images1 page/a-safer-way-to-playfails 8: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/battlefield-medicine-gets-new-allyfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/brewing-capital-u-sfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/cleaner-quieter-faster-air-travel-coming-airport-nearfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/collaboration-innovation-hallmarks-washington-businessfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/google-breaks-ground-new-digsfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/life-science-innovation-collaborationfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/seattle-recognized-top-5-innovative-centersfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/site-selector-guildfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/want-fries-meal-likely-came-washington-statefails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/washingtons-century-know-featured-farnborough-air-showfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Add depth to thin pages and Add a tap-to-call link1 page
And 88 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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