politicalresearch.org, read 20 hours ago. Back to the report

93 to 100 in 6 steps

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9393 nownow961#3,185982top 1%9939949951006full marks

Now #10,792 of 263,590Step 1 #3,185Step 2 top 1%Step 6 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. 1

    Fix description lengths

    +3 points, to 96, and #3,185, 7,607 places up

    Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.

    85 pages, 68 of them under /people/

    See the pages
    • /
    • /about-pra/careers-internships
    • /about-pra/contact
    • /about-pra/in-the-news
    • /about-pra/mission-history
    • /about-pra/submission-guidelines
    • /about-pra/support-our-work
    • /node/128
    • /page-not-found
    • /people/abby-scher
    • and 75 more in the copied plan
  2. 2

    Fix title lengths

    +2 points, to 98, and into the top 1%

    Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.

    64 pages, 52 of them under /people/

    See the pages
    • /
    • /about-pra
    • /about-pra/contact
    • /about-pra/in-the-news
    • /node/128
    • /page-not-found
    • /people/abby-scher
    • /people/akiba
    • /people/alex-dibranco
    • /people/alex-zadel
    • and 54 more in the copied plan
  3. 3

    Set a share image

    +1 point, to 99

    Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.

    66 pages under /people/

    See the pages
    • /people/abby-scher
    • /people/akiba
    • /people/alex-dibranco
    • /people/alex-zadel
    • /people/amy-stone
    • /people/andrew-padgett
    • /people/beena-ahmad
    • /people/brian-tashman
    • /people/britt-moorman
    • /people/carl-williams
    • and 56 more in the copied plan
  4. 4

    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

  5. 5

    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

  6. 6

    Describe images

    +1 point, to 100, and full marks

    Describe every content image in its alt text.

    18 pages under /people/

    See the pages
    • /people/abby-scher
    • /people/alex-dibranco
    • /people/carol-mason
    • /people/david-dodge
    • /people/gabriel-joffe
    • /people/greeley-oconnor
    • /people/heron-greenesmith
    • /people/jandira-queiroz
    • /people/jay-michaelson
    • /people/jessica-quiason
    • and 8 more in the copied plan
2 more, to tidy up after 100
  1. 7

    Use one main heading

    Under a point

    Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.

    The home page

  2. 8

    Replace unsupported sales claims

    Under a point

    Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.

    1 page

    See the pages
    • /about-pra/submission-guidelines

Done since the first read

  1. Add a tap-to-call link

    Done, seen on the read of October 24. It failed on 100 pages before.

What else the read found

Half its pages start answering within 67 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.

  • /subscribe740 ms
  • /site-credits516 ms
  • /about-pra/mission-history216 ms
  • /about-pra/submission-guidelines211 ms
  • /about-pra/contact211 ms

Fastest: /people/jean-hardisty, 31 ms. Heaviest: /research/glossary, 46 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.

  • DrupalPlatform
  • CloudflareHosting
  • FastlyHosting
  • Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
  • Cloudflare Web AnalyticsAnalytics
  • Adobe FontsFonts
pages with strong signs
2
hidden characters
2
chat, markdown or placeholders left in
0
dashes per 1,000 words
2.7
  • /people/olivia-lawrence-weilmann hidden characters a reader cannot see
  • /podcasts/inform-your-resistance hidden 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: Use one main heading, Match structured data to the page and Fix description lengths1 page
  • /page-not-found fails 2: Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page
  • /podcasts fails 2: Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page
  • /privacy-policy fails 2: Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page
  • /research fails 2: Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page
  • /subscribe fails 2: Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page
  • /about-pra fails 1: Fix title lengths1 page
  • /public-eye-magazine fails 1: Fix description lengths1 page
  • /site-credits fails 1: Fix title lengths1 page
  • /people/ 80 fail a rule. Worst: /people/abby-scher, 4 rules81 pages
  • /about-pra/ 6 fail a rule. Worst: /about-pra/contact, 2 rules6 pages
  • /podcasts/ 2 fail a rule. Worst: /podcasts/inform-your-resistance, 1 rule2 pages

And 2 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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