politicalresearch.org, read 20 hours ago. Back to the report
93 to 100 in 6 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 #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
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
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
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
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
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
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
- 7
Use one main heading
Under a point
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
The home page
- 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
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
- FFastlyHosting
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-weilmannhidden characters a reader cannot see/podcasts/inform-your-resistancehidden 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-foundfails 2: Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/podcastsfails 2: Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/privacy-policyfails 2: Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/researchfails 2: Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/subscribefails 2: Fix description lengths and Fix title lengths1 page/about-prafails 1: Fix title lengths1 page/public-eye-magazinefails 1: Fix description lengths1 page/site-creditsfails 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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