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83 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 #81,941 of 265,036Step 1 top 25%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
Add structured data
+7 points, to 90, and #25,970, 55,971 places up, and into the top 25%
Add valid JSON-LD that says what the page is.
97 pages
See the pages
- /
- /18-lessons-from-18-years-of-blogging
- /about
- /accessible-personal-websites-are-easier-than-you-think
- /ascii-art-is-an-art-born-from-limitations
- /author/aaron
- /author/alexandra
- /author/ben
- /author/charlotte
- /author/declan
- and 87 more in the copied plan
- 2
Fix description lengths
+4 points, to 94
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
93 pages
See the pages
- /18-lessons-from-18-years-of-blogging
- /about
- /accessible-personal-websites-are-easier-than-you-think
- /ascii-art-is-an-art-born-from-limitations
- /author/aaron
- /author/alexandra
- /author/ben
- /author/charlotte
- /author/declan
- /author/devonne
- and 83 more in the copied plan
- 3
Set a share image
+1 point, to 95
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
97 pages
See the pages
- /
- /18-lessons-from-18-years-of-blogging
- /about
- /accessible-personal-websites-are-easier-than-you-think
- /ascii-art-is-an-art-born-from-limitations
- /author/aaron
- /author/alexandra
- /author/ben
- /author/charlotte
- /author/declan
- and 87 more in the copied plan
- 4
Link straight to the final address
+3 points, to 98
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
96 pages
See the pages
- /18-lessons-from-18-years-of-blogging
- /about
- /accessible-personal-websites-are-easier-than-you-think
- /ascii-art-is-an-art-born-from-limitations
- /author/aaron
- /author/alexandra
- /author/ben
- /author/charlotte
- /author/declan
- /author/devonne
- and 86 more in the copied plan
- 5
Describe images
+1 point, to 99
Describe every content image in its alt text.
37 pages
See the pages
- /
- /accessible-personal-websites-are-easier-than-you-think
- /author/aaron
- /author/ben
- /author/charlotte
- /author/greg-sarjeant
- /author/jan-miksovsky
- /author/jay
- /author/liz-roboto
- /author/nim
- and 27 more in the copied plan
- 6
Fix title lengths
Under a point
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
11 pages
See the pages
- /
- /contact
- /homecoming-the-small-web-and-release-from-the-unitary-public-self
- /issues
- /mem
- /members-issues
- /signin
- /signup
- /subscribe
- /tags
- and 1 more in the copied plan
- 7
Let AI crawlers in
Under a point
Remove the robots.txt rules that shut out AI crawlers. On Cloudflare, also turn off "Block AI bots", which writes these rules for you.
Once, for the whole site
Steps for your host: Cloudflare, WordPress, Namecheap and more - 8
Link to orphaned pages
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
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
5 more, to tidy up after 100
- 9
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
- 10
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
- 11
Link to your profiles
Under a point
Link from the home page, in its header or footer, to each profile you keep: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, X, LinkedIn.
Once, for the whole site
- 12
Use one main heading
Under a point
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
7 pages
See the pages
- /
- /page/2
- /page/3
- /page/4
- /signin
- /signup
- /subscribe
- 13
Fix pages that fail to load
Under a point
Fix or remove the link. Every linked page should return 200.
1 page
See the pages
- /membership
Done since the first read
Set each page's canonical address
Done, seen on the read of October 24. It failed on 1 page before.
Add a way to get in touch
Done, seen on the read of October 24. It failed on 1 page before.
Add a tap-to-call link
Done, seen on the read of October 24. It failed on 98 pages before.
Bring deep pages closer to home
Done, seen on the read of October 22. It failed on 11 pages before.
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 157 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/tag/webweaving/page/2418 ms/page/4416 ms/the-web-we-lost414 ms/author/leilukin393 ms/webweaving-and-blogging-can-change-your-life391 ms
Fastest: /web-design-without-design-software, 23 ms. Heaviest: /oral-history-of-flash, 476 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
StripeCommerce
- pages with strong signs
- 3
- hidden characters
- 2
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 2
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 2.3
/ascii-art-is-an-art-born-from-limitationshidden characters a reader cannot see/intro-to-flexboxplaceholders never filled in/introducing-byline-the-good-internet-fontplaceholders never filled in
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, Use one main heading and Match structured data to the page1 page/membershippasses every rule1 page/issuesfails 6: Add structured data, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/signinfails 6: Add structured data, Use one main heading and Fix description lengths1 page/signupfails 6: Add structured data, Use one main heading and Fix description lengths1 page/subscribefails 6: Add structured data, Use one main heading and Fix description lengths1 page/accessible-personal-websites-are-easier-than-you-thinkfails 5: Add structured data, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/contactfails 5: Add structured data, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/homecoming-the-small-web-and-release-from-the-unitary-public-selffails 5: Add structured data, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/introducing-byline-the-good-internet-fontfails 5: Add structured data, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/members-issuesfails 5: Add structured data, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/my-website-is-ugly-because-i-made-itfails 5: Add structured data, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page
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