higherlogic.com, read 3 days ago. Back to the report
85 to 100 in 12 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 #62,401 of 263,590Step 1 top 10%Step 12 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
+6 points, to 91, and #20,086, 42,315 places up, and into the top 10%
Add a tap-to-call phone link.
100 pages
See the pages
- /
- /1-2
- /analytics-reporting
- /b2b-b2c-landing-page
- /basic-communications-implementation
- /basic-data-migration
- /basic-thrive-community-implementation
- /basic-thrive-marketing-implementation
- /become-a-partner
- /blog
- and 90 more in the copied plan
- 2
Fix description lengths
+3 points, to 94
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
76 pages
See the pages
- /b2b-b2c-landing-page
- /basic-communications-implementation
- /basic-data-migration
- /basic-thrive-community-implementation
- /basic-thrive-marketing-implementation
- /blog
- /communications-coaching
- /communications-platinum
- /communications-strategy-consultation
- /community-branding
- and 66 more in the copied plan
- 3
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 96
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
99 pages
See the pages
- /1-2
- /analytics-reporting
- /b2b-b2c-landing-page
- /basic-communications-implementation
- /basic-data-migration
- /basic-thrive-community-implementation
- /basic-thrive-marketing-implementation
- /become-a-partner
- /blog
- /careers/floyd
- and 89 more in the copied plan
- 4
Set a share image
+2 points, to 98
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
93 pages
See the pages
- /
- /1-2
- /analytics-reporting
- /b2b-b2c-landing-page
- /basic-communications-implementation
- /basic-data-migration
- /basic-thrive-community-implementation
- /basic-thrive-marketing-implementation
- /become-a-partner
- /blog
- and 83 more in the copied plan
- 5
Describe images
Under a point
Describe every content image in its alt text.
27 pages
See the pages
- /
- /1-2
- /analytics-reporting
- /b2b-b2c-landing-page
- /become-a-partner
- /blog
- /careers/floyd
- /community-for-product-teams
- /customer-success-community
- /customer-support-community
- and 17 more in the copied plan
- 6
Answer the first question right under it
Under a point
Answer the first question in the paragraph right under it, in 25 to 90 words. Whether the paragraph truly answers is for the judge or a person to say.
1 page
See the pages
- /the-odds-are-in-your-favor-with-a-purpose-built-community
- 7
Put figures in tables
Under a point
Where the guide compares options or gives figures, put them in a table.
1 page
See the pages
- /the-odds-are-in-your-favor-with-a-purpose-built-community
- 8
Add lists or tables
Under a point
Add a table, a list, or a definition list. Assistants quote these more readily than prose.
3 pages
See the pages
- /community-for-product-teams
- /customer-success-community
- /customer-support-community
- 9
Phrase headings as questions
+1 point, to 99
Phrase at least one heading as the question a person would ask.
1 page
See the pages
- /the-odds-are-in-your-favor-with-a-purpose-built-community
- 10
Add real images to content
Under a point
Add a photo, drawing, or chart as an img with alt text. A CSS background image has no alt text and is not read as part of the page.
1 page
See the pages
- /the-odds-are-in-your-favor-with-a-purpose-built-community
- 11
Fix title lengths
Under a point
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
15 pages
See the pages
- /blog
- /careers/floyd
- /careers/jobs
- /communications-coaching
- /communications-strategy-consultation
- /community-essentials-for-customers
- /coveo-search-platform-configuration-services-description
- /history
- /partnerships
- /podcasts
- and 5 more in the copied plan
- 12
Use one main heading
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
10 pages
See the pages
- /legal/dpa
- /sample-page
- /search
- /standard-thrive-marketing-implementation
- /thrive-jobs
- /thrive-marketing-plus
- /thrive-marketing-plus-2
- /vanilla-advanced-strategic-workshops
- /vanilla-content-strategy
- /vanilla-premium-implementation
2 more, to tidy up after 100
- 13
Replace unsupported sales claims
Under a point
Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.
4 pages
See the pages
- /podcasts
- /thrive
- /thrive/product-updates
- /why-community
- 14
Remove ratings with no visible reviews
Under a point
Remove rating schema unless the reviews it counts are shown on the page.
1 page
See the pages
- /solutions/member-retention
Done since the first read
Set each page's canonical address
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 44 pages before.
Put the text in the HTML
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 23 pages before.
Show when guides were updated
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 406 pages before.
Add depth to thin pages
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 84 pages before.
Allow pages to be indexed
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 9 pages before.
Fix pages that fail to load
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 180 pages before.
Name the publisher
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 406 pages before.
Add a way to get in touch
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 35 pages before.
Make near-copy pages distinct
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 1 page before.
Match structured data to the page
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 406 pages before.
Show sources on guides
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 118 pages before.
Add structured data
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 40 pages before.
Bring deep pages closer to home
Done, seen on the read of October 17. It failed on 47 pages before.
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 189 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/legal/dpa525 ms/higherlogiconlinecommunity211 ms/legal/ccpa210 ms/vanilla-launch-concierge208 ms/basic-data-migration205 ms
Fastest: /, 36 ms. Heaviest: /communityplatinum, 27 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
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Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
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jQueryLibrary
Font AwesomeFonts
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: an Organization named Higher Logic. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- Xhigherlogic
- Facebookhigherlogic
- LinkedInhigher-logic
- pages with strong signs
- 0
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 2.6
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: Add a tap-to-call link, Describe images and Set a share image1 page/podcastsfails 7: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/the-odds-are-in-your-favor-with-a-purpose-built-communityfails 7: Answer the first question right under it, Add a tap-to-call link and Phrase headings as questions1 page/thrive-jobsfails 7: Use one main heading, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/blogfails 6: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/partnershipsfails 6: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/sample-pagefails 6: Use one main heading, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/searchfails 6: Use one main heading, Add a tap-to-call link and Fix description lengths1 page/vanilla-b2cfails 6: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/b2b-b2c-landing-pagefails 5: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/communications-coachingfails 5: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/communications-strategy-consultationfails 5: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page
And 76 more parts of the site.
The read stopped at its page limit, so pages no link leads to cannot be told from pages it did not reach, and neither is reported.
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