districtwinery.com, read 3 days ago. Back to the report
88 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 #39,464 of 263,586Step 1 top 10%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 a tap-to-call link
+7 points, to 95, and #4,954, 34,510 places up, and into the top 10%
Add a tap-to-call phone link.
64 pages
See the pages
- /
- /accessibility
- /best-corporate-meeting-locations
- /black-tie-event
- /book-now
- /chefs-call-large-reservations
- /corporate-christmas-activities
- /custom-wine-labels
- /date-night
- /dc-private-events-celebrations
- and 54 more in the copied plan
- 2
Link straight to the final address
+1 point, to 96
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
65 pages
See the pages
- /accessibility
- /best-corporate-meeting-locations
- /black-tie-event
- /book-now
- /chefs-call-large-reservations
- /contact-us
- /corporate-christmas-activities
- /custom-wine-labels
- /date-night
- /dc-private-events-celebrations
- and 55 more in the copied plan
- 3
Fix description lengths
+2 points, to 98
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
20 pages
See the pages
- /best-corporate-meeting-locations
- /black-tie-event
- /contact-us
- /corporate-christmas-activities
- /date-night
- /dc-winery-menus
- /donation-requests
- /expertise-in-private-event-planning
- /fully-customizable-culinary-menus
- /gift-cards
- and 10 more in the copied plan
- 4
Phrase headings as questions
Under a point
Phrase at least one heading as the question a person would ask.
2 pages
See the pages
- /location/district-winery
- /store/gift-cards
- 5
Fix title lengths
Under a point
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
10 pages
See the pages
- /best-corporate-meeting-locations
- /corporate-christmas-activities
- /district-winery-private-events-information
- /district-winery-private-events-packages
- /district-winery-wedding-information
- /district-winery-wedding-packages-and-menus
- /our-values
- /top-5-benefits-of-offsite-meetings
- /washington-dc-wedding-venue
- /waterfront-wedding-venue
- 6
Fix pages that fail to load
+1 point, to 99
Fix or remove the link. Every linked page should return 200.
3 pages
See the pages
- /button%20class%3D
- /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection
- /dc-winery-tasting-bar
- 7
Describe images
Under a point
Describe every content image in its alt text.
5 pages
See the pages
- /
- /custom-wine-labels
- /dc-winery-tasting-room
- /store/gift-cards
- /top-5-benefits-of-offsite-meetings
- 8
Replace unsupported sales claims
Under a point
Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.
3 pages
See the pages
- /dc-winery
- /washington-dc-wedding-venue
- /waterfront-wedding-venue
- 9
Use one main heading
Under a point
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
2 pages
See the pages
- /donation-requests
- /privacy-policy
- 10
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
- 11
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.
1 page
See the pages
- /store/gift-cards
- 12
Add breadcrumb data
Under a point
Add BreadcrumbList schema so the page has a place in the site.
2 pages
See the pages
- /location/district-winery
- /store/gift-cards
- 13
Add an llms.txt
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
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
5 more, to tidy up after 100
- 14
Link to pages from related content
Under a point
Link to this page from the text of a related page. Navigation links say a page exists; links in content say what it is related to.
1 page
See the pages
- /location/district-winery
- 15
Add lists or tables
Under a point
Add a table, a list, or a definition list. Assistants quote these more readily than prose.
1 page
See the pages
- /store/gift-cards
- 16
Add depth to thin pages
Under a point
Add true, specific detail until the page covers its subject.
1 page
See the pages
- /store/gift-cards
- 17
Set each page's canonical address
Under a point
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
1 page
See the pages
- /privacy-policy
- 18
Bring deep pages closer to home
Under a point
Link to the page from a hub or a related page so it sits within three clicks of the home page.
1 page
See the pages
- /store
Done since the first read
Make near-copy pages distinct
Done, seen on the read of October 22. It failed on 1 page before.
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 49 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/corporate-christmas-activities782 ms/store/cart294 ms/store279 ms/large-dinner-party-venue277 ms/store/gift-cards264 ms
Fastest: /chefs-call-large-reservations, 27 ms. Heaviest: /privacy-policy, 18 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.
CloudflareHosting
- FFastlyHosting
Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
- GGoogle AnalyticsAnalytics
Google reCAPTCHALibrary
BootstrapLibrary
Google FontsFonts
Font AwesomeFonts
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: an Organization named District Winery. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- Facebookdistrictwinery
- Instagramdistrictwinery
- pages with strong signs
- 0
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 0.5
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 2: Add a tap-to-call link and Describe images1 page/button%20class%3Dpasses every rule1 page/dc-winery-tasting-barpasses every rule1 page/top-5-benefits-of-offsite-meetingsfails 5: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/washington-dc-wedding-venuefails 5: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Replace unsupported sales claims1 page/waterfront-wedding-venuefails 5: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Replace unsupported sales claims1 page/best-corporate-meeting-locationsfails 4: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/corporate-christmas-activitiesfails 4: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/donation-requestsfails 4: Use one main heading, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/our-valuesfails 4: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/black-tie-eventfails 3: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/custom-wine-labelsfails 3: Add a tap-to-call link, Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page
And 54 more parts of the site.
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