homebridge.com, read 1 day ago. Back to the report
91 to 100 in 9 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 #25,375 of 263,586Step 1 top 5%Step 9 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
Match structured data to the page
+2 points, to 93, and #10,783, 14,592 places up, and into the top 5%
Use the schema type that matches the page: Article for guides, Service or Product for offers, Organization or WebSite for the home page.
25 pages, 15 of them under /products/
Both sites Gemini cites beside it pass this one.
See the pages
- /products/heloc
- /products/heloc/debt-consolidation-calculator
- /products/heloc/heloc-calculator
- /products/heloc/heloc-calculators
- /products/heloc/heloc-faqs
- /products/heloc/homebridge-heloc-terms-of-use
- /products/heloc/licenses
- /products/heloc/resources
- /products/heloc/resources/heloc-requirements
- /products/heloc/resources/heloc-vs-cash-out-refinance
- and 15 more in the copied plan
- 2
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 95
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
41 pages
See the pages
- /accessibility
- /careers
- /careers/corporate
- /ccpa-vcr-form
- /contact-us
- /disclosure
- /home-mortgage-disclosure-act-notice
- /joel-katz
- /licensing
- /privacy-policy
- and 31 more in the copied plan
- 3
Fix description lengths
+1 point, to 96
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
12 pages
See the pages
- /accessibility
- /careers/corporate
- /ccpa-vcr-form
- /disclosure
- /home-mortgage-disclosure-act-notice
- /licensing
- /privacy-policy
- /privacychoices
- /products/heloc/homebridge-heloc-terms-of-use
- /products/heloc/licenses
- and 2 more in the copied plan
- 4
Make near-copy pages distinct
+1 point, to 97
Rewrite or merge pages that share most of their text. A page that only swaps a city or product name is what search engines treat as doorway or scaled content.
Once, for the whole site
- 5
Add depth to thin pages
Under a point
Add true, specific detail until the page covers its subject.
10 pages
See the pages
- /
- /products/heloc
- /products/heloc/heloc-calculators
- /products/heloc/licenses
- /products/heloc/resources
- /products/heloc/resources/heloc-vs-cash-out-refinance
- and 4 more in the copied plan
- 6
Phrase headings as questions
+1 point, to 98
Phrase at least one heading as the question a person would ask.
9 pages, 6 of them under /products/
See the pages
- /products/heloc
- /products/heloc/debt-consolidation-calculator
- /products/heloc/heloc-calculator
- /products/heloc/heloc-calculators
- /products/heloc/homebridge-heloc-terms-of-use
- /products/heloc/licenses
- and 3 more in the copied plan
- 7
Describe images
+1 point, to 99
Describe every content image in its alt text.
18 pages
See the pages
- /
- /careers
- /joel-katz
- /products/heloc/resources/heloc-requirements
- /products/heloc/resources/heloc-vs-cash-out-refinance
- /products/heloc/resources/how-to-get-a-heloc
- /products/heloc/resources/how-to-use-home-equity
- /products/heloc/resources/is-a-heloc-a-good-idea
- /products/heloc/resources/what-is-a-heloc
- /products/heloc/resources/what-is-home-equity
- and 8 more in the copied plan
- 8
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.
2 pages
Both sites Gemini cites beside it pass this one.
See the pages
- /
- /products/heloc/resources
- 9
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.
5 pages, 3 of them under /products/heloc/
See the pages
- /careers/corporate
- /disclosure
- /products/heloc/heloc-faqs
- /products/heloc/licenses
- /products/heloc/resources
7 more, to tidy up after 100
- 10
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 under /products/heloc/
See the pages
- /products/heloc/debt-consolidation-calculator
- /products/heloc/homebridge-heloc-terms-of-use
- /products/heloc/resources
- 11
Use one main heading
Under a point
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
3 pages
Both sites Gemini cites beside it pass this one.
See the pages
- /
- /careers
- and 1 more in the copied plan
- 12
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.
2 pages
See the pages
- /products/heloc/homebridge-heloc-terms-of-use
- /products/heloc/licenses
- 13
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.
2 pages
See the pages
- /products/heloc/homebridge-heloc-terms-of-use
- /products/heloc/licenses
- 14
Replace unsupported sales claims
Under a point
Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.
1 page
See the pages
- /careers/corporate
- 15
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
- 16
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
What else the read found
Half its pages take over 968 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.
/licensing1.3 s/products/heloc1.2 s/products/heloc/resources/heloc-requirements1.2 s/products/heloc/resources/how-to-get-a-heloc1.1 s/ccpa-vcr-form1.1 s
Fastest: /who-we-are, 91 ms. Heaviest: /products/heloc, 83 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
- FFastlyHosting
nginxServer
Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
jQueryLibrary
BootstrapLibrary
Google FontsFonts
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: a Corporation named Homebridge Financial Services, Inc.. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- WikipediaHomeBridge_Financial_Services
- Facebookmyhomebridge
- LinkedInmycompany
- Xmyhomebridge
- YouTubehomebridgeincmortgage
- page with strong signs
- 1
- hidden characters
- 1
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 1.9
/careershidden 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 4: Put the text in the HTML, Add depth to thin pages and Use one main heading1 page/careersfails 3: Use one main heading, Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/disclosurefails 3: Fix description lengths, Fix title lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/accessibilityfails 2: Fix description lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/ccpa-vcr-formfails 2: Fix description lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/home-mortgage-disclosure-act-noticefails 2: Fix description lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/joel-katzfails 2: Describe images and Link straight to the final address1 page/licensingfails 2: Fix description lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/privacy-policyfails 2: Fix description lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/privacychoicesfails 2: Fix description lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/search-the-homebridge-websitefails 2: Fix description lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page/texas-mortgage-banker-noticefails 2: Fix description lengths and Link straight to the final address1 page
And 4 more parts of the site.
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