halfshellseattle.com, read 20 hours ago. Back to the report
93 to 100 in 11 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 #12,654 of 263,586Step 1 #4,955Step 3 top 1%Step 11 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
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 95, and #4,955, 7,699 places up
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
12 pages
See the pages
- /about
- /accessibility-statement
- /careers
- /contact
- /event/happy-hour
- /event/seattle-restaurant-week-copy
- /events
- /group-dining
- /location/half-shell-
- /menus
- and 2 more in the copied plan
- 2
Add depth to thin pages
Under a point
Add true, specific detail until the page covers its subject.
2 pages
See the pages
- /
- /location/half-shell-
- 3
Use one main heading
+2 points, to 97, and into the top 1%
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
3 pages
See the pages
- /
- /accessibility-statement
- /events
- 4
Describe images
+1 point, to 98
Describe every content image in its alt text.
4 pages
See the pages
- /events
- /group-dining
- /location/half-shell-
- /menus
- 5
Phrase headings as questions
Under a point
Phrase at least one heading as the question a person would ask.
1 page
See the pages
- /location/half-shell-
- 6
Put the text in the HTML
+1 point, to 99
Put the page text in the HTML the server sends. Most AI crawlers do not run scripts.
The home page
3 of the 4 sites Gemini cites beside it pass this one.
- 7
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
3 of the 4 sites Gemini cites beside it pass this one.
See the pages
- /location/half-shell-
- 8
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.
1 page
See the pages
- /location/half-shell-
- 9
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
- 10
Add breadcrumb data
Under a point
Add BreadcrumbList schema so the page has a place in the site.
1 page
See the pages
- /location/half-shell-
- 11
Fix title lengths
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
2 pages
See the pages
- /accessibility-statement
- /team-member/team-gretchen-geisness
1 more, to tidy up after 100
- 12
Fix description lengths
Under a point
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
1 page
See the pages
- /event/seattle-restaurant-week-copy
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 11 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/menus99 ms/62 ms/events59 ms/about34 ms/team-member/team-chris-schwarz32 ms
Fastest: /location/half-shell-, 9 ms. Heaviest: /menus, 21 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.
- FFastlyHosting
Google reCAPTCHALibrary
BootstrapLibrary
Google FontsFonts
Font AwesomeFonts
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: an Organization named Half Shell. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- Instagramhalfshellseattle
- pages with strong signs
- 0
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 0
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: Put the text in the HTML, Add depth to thin pages and Use one main heading1 page/accessibility-statementfails 3: Use one main heading, Fix title lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/eventsfails 3: Use one main heading, Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/group-diningfails 2: Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/menusfails 2: Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/aboutfails 1: Link straight to the final address1 page/careersfails 1: Link straight to the final address1 page/contactfails 1: Link straight to the final address1 page/event/2 fail a rule. Worst: /event/seattle-restaurant-week-copy, 2 rules2 pages/team-member/2 fail a rule. Worst: /team-member/team-gretchen-geisness, 2 rules2 pages/location/1 fail a rule. Worst: /location/half-shell-, 7 rules1 page
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