devonbank.com, read 1 day ago. Back to the report
94 to 100 in 8 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 #10,075 of 263,586Step 1 #3,189Step 2 top 1%Step 8 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 description lengths
+2 points, to 96, and #3,189, 6,886 places up
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
40 pages
See the pages
- /advisor-directed-trusts
- /bill-payment
- /careers
- /community-giving
- /contact-form
- /cookie-policy
- /corporate-social-responsibility
- /cra-public-file
- /customertestimonials
- /cyber-security-awareness
- and 30 more in the copied plan
- 2
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 98, and into the top 1%
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
76 pages
See the pages
- /advisor-directed-trusts
- /bank-at-work-program
- /bill-payment
- /business-credit-card
- /careers
- /checking-accounts
- /commercial-loans
- /community-giving
- /compare-our-accounts
- /contact-form
- and 66 more in the copied plan
- 3
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
All 6 sites Gemini cites beside it pass this one.
- 4
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
All 6 sites Gemini cites beside it pass this one.
- 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
Fix pages that fail to load
+1 point, to 99
Fix or remove the link. Every linked page should return 200.
4 pages
All 6 sites Gemini cites beside it pass this one.
See the pages
- /commercial-financing
- /investment-management
- /loan-types
- /quickbooks-quicken-mint
- 7
Use one main heading
Under a point
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
5 pages
See the pages
- /
- /external-transfers
- /locations
- /merchant-services
- /minority-depository-institution
- 8
Allow pages to be indexed
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Remove noindex when the page is ready to be found.
1 page
Steps for your host: Cloudflare, WordPress, Namecheap and moreSee the pages
- /customer-survey-official-rules
4 more, to tidy up after 100
- 9
Set each page's canonical address
Under a point
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
1 page
See the pages
- /customer-survey-official-rules
- 10
Set a share image
Under a point
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
12 pages
See the pages
- /commercial-loans
- /contact-form
- /cookie-policy
- /customer-survey-official-rules
- /customertestimonials
- /devon-connect
- /financing
- /forms
- /loans
- /sitemap
- and 2 more in the copied plan
- 11
Describe images
Under a point
Describe every content image in its alt text.
2 pages
See the pages
- /
- /login
- 12
Fix title lengths
Under a point
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
The home page
What else the read found
Half its pages take over 1,443 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.
/shariah-board-approval2.4 s/heter-iska2.4 s/fraud-protection2.3 s/fresh-start2.2 s/customer-survey-official-rules2.2 s
Fastest: /news, 47 ms. Heaviest: the home page, 56 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
- GGoogle AnalyticsAnalytics
jQueryLibrary
Google FontsFonts
Font AwesomeFonts
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: an Organization named Devon Bank. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- FacebookTheDevonBank
- Instagramdevonbank1945
- LinkedInadmin
- pages with strong signs
- 3
- hidden characters
- 3
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 1.2
/advisor-directed-trustshidden characters a reader cannot see/electronic-paymentshidden characters a reader cannot see/treasury-management-teamhidden 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: Use one main heading, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/commercial-financingpasses every rule1 page/investment-managementpasses every rule1 page/loan-typespasses every rule1 page/quickbooks-quicken-mintpasses every rule1 page/customer-survey-official-rulesfails 4: Allow pages to be indexed, Set each page's canonical address and Link straight to the final address1 page/contact-formfails 3: Fix description lengths, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/cookie-policyfails 3: Fix description lengths, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/customertestimonialsfails 3: Fix description lengths, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/devon-connectfails 3: Fix description lengths, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/external-transfersfails 3: Use one main heading, Fix description lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/financingfails 3: Fix description lengths, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page
And 69 more parts of the site.
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