cityofroywa.us, read 6 hours ago. Back to the report
74 to 100 in 13 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 #159,098 of 263,590Step 1 top 50%Step 13 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 structured data
+7 points, to 81, and #97,257, 61,841 places up, and into the top 50%
Add valid JSON-LD that says what the page is.
27 pages
See the pages
- /
- /business
- /city-code
- /city-government
- /city-map
- /comprehensive-plan
- /contact-us
- /council-agendas
- /forms-documents
- /history
- and 17 more in the copied plan
- 2
Add a tap-to-call link
+6 points, to 87
Add a tap-to-call phone link.
27 pages
See the pages
- /
- /business
- /city-code
- /city-government
- /city-map
- /comprehensive-plan
- /contact-us
- /council-agendas
- /forms-documents
- /history
- and 17 more in the copied plan
- 3
Describe images
+4 points, to 91
Describe every content image in its alt text.
25 pages
See the pages
- /
- /business
- /city-code
- /city-government
- /city-map
- /comprehensive-plan
- /contact-us
- /council-agendas
- /forms-documents
- /history
- and 15 more in the copied plan
- 4
Fix description lengths
+2 points, to 93
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
22 pages
See the pages
- /
- /business
- /city-map
- /council-agendas
- /forms-documents
- /history
- /information
- /interlocal-agreements
- /jobs-projects
- /mission-vision
- and 12 more in the copied plan
- 5
Fix title lengths
+3 points, to 96
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
15 pages
See the pages
- /city-code
- /city-map
- /contact-us
- /history
- /information
- /make-a-payment
- /mission-vision
- /participate
- /public-works
- /resourcelinks
- and 5 more in the copied plan
- 6
Set a share image
+1 point, to 97
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
27 pages
See the pages
- /
- /business
- /city-code
- /city-government
- /city-map
- /comprehensive-plan
- /contact-us
- /council-agendas
- /forms-documents
- /history
- and 17 more in the copied plan
- 7
Fix pages that fail to load
+1 point, to 98
Fix or remove the link. Every linked page should return 200.
3 pages
See the pages
- /citizens-are-asking
- /council-minutes
- /surplus
- 8
Use one main heading
+1 point, to 99
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
3 pages
See the pages
- /council-agendas
- /municipal-court
- /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
- 9
Link to orphaned pages
Under a point
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
- 10
Match structured data to the page
Under a point
Use the schema type that matches the page: Article for guides, Service or Product for offers, Organization or WebSite for the home page.
The home page
- 11
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
- 12
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
- 13
Add a way to get in touch
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Give the page a form or a clear link to request a quote or get in touch.
1 page
See the pages
- /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
1 more, to tidy up after 100
- 14
Set each page's canonical address
Under a point
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
1 page
See the pages
- /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
What else the read found
Half its pages take over 1,300 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.
/3.9 s/council-agendas3.1 s/municipal-court2.8 s/make-a-payment2.8 s/jobs-projects2.7 s
Fastest: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php, 54 ms. Heaviest: the home page, 36 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
PHPServer
LiteSpeedServer
jQueryLibrary
Google FontsFonts
- pages with strong signs
- 5
- hidden characters
- 6
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 1
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 9.7
/businesshidden characters a reader cannot see/city-governmenthidden characters a reader cannot see/contact-ushidden characters a reader cannot see/municipal-courthidden characters a reader cannot see/police-departmentmarkdown 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 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Match structured data to the page1 page/citizens-are-askingpasses every rule1 page/council-minutespasses every rule1 page/surpluspasses every rule1 page/city-mapfails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/council-agendasfails 6: Add structured data, Use one main heading and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/historyfails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/informationfails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/mission-visionfails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/municipal-courtfails 6: Add structured data, Use one main heading and Add a tap-to-call link1 page/participatefails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/public-worksfails 6: Add structured data, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page
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