stanleyhotel.com, read 1 day ago. Back to the report
94 to 100 in 4 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 #7,837 of 264,959Step 1 #3,204Step 2 top 1%Step 4 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
Set a share image
+2 points, to 96, and #3,204, 4,633 places up
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
99 pages, 51 of them under /rooms/
See the pages
- /
- /about
- /about/history
- /activities
- /activities/13-late-night-seances
- /activities/aiden-sinclairs-underground
- /activities/paranormal-investigations-at-the-stanley-hotel
- /activities/the-rocky-mountains-national-park
- /aspire-fitness-center
- /contact-us
- and 89 more in the copied plan
- 2
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 98, and into the top 1%
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
98 pages, 51 of them under /rooms/
See the pages
- /about
- /about/history
- /activities
- /activities/13-late-night-seances
- /activities/aiden-sinclairs-underground
- /activities/paranormal-investigations-at-the-stanley-hotel
- /activities/the-rocky-mountains-national-park
- /aspire-fitness-center
- /contact-us
- /cookies
- and 88 more in the copied plan
- 3
Fix description lengths
+1 point, to 99
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
32 pages
See the pages
- /about/history
- /activities/13-late-night-seances
- /activities/aiden-sinclairs-underground
- /activities/paranormal-investigations-at-the-stanley-hotel
- /activities/the-rocky-mountains-national-park
- /aspire-fitness-center
- /cookies
- /offers/bed-breakfast-package
- /offers/celebrating-150-years-of-colorado
- /offers/half-off-for-heroes
- and 22 more in the copied plan
- 4
Replace unsupported sales claims
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.
4 pages
See the pages
- /activities
- /dining
- /faqs
- /our-properties
4 more, to tidy up after 100
- 5
Set each page's canonical address
Under a point
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
2 pages
See the pages
- /dining/cherry-co
- /dining/post-beer-chicken
- 6
Fix pages that fail to load
Under a point
Fix or remove the link. Every linked page should return 200.
1 page
See the pages
- /404
- 7
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
- 8
Fix title lengths
Under a point
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
3 pages
See the pages
- /activities/paranormal-investigations-at-the-stanley-hotel
- /dining/217-wine-bar
- /privacy-policy
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 141 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/our-properties/the-residence441 ms/activities/paranormal-investigations-at-the-stanley-hotel209 ms/rooms/1-bedroom-condo-341206 ms/activities/aiden-sinclairs-underground179 ms/activities/13-late-night-seances179 ms
Fastest: /, 33 ms. Heaviest: /our-properties/the-residence, 43 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
AstroFramework
CloudflareHosting
Google Tag ManagerAnalytics
Microsoft ClarityAnalytics
Google reCAPTCHALibrary
Google FontsFonts
- pages with strong signs
- 7
- hidden characters
- 11
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 1
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 0.1
/activities/13-late-night-seanceshidden characters a reader cannot see/activities/aiden-sinclairs-undergroundhidden characters a reader cannot see/offershidden characters a reader cannot see, markdown never turned into formatting/galleryhidden characters a reader cannot see/offers/wellness-your-way-one-night-stayhidden 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 1: Set a share image1 page/404passes every rule1 page/activitiesfails 3: Replace unsupported sales claims, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/aspire-fitness-centerfails 3: Fix description lengths, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/cookiesfails 3: Fix description lengths, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/diningfails 3: Replace unsupported sales claims, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/faqsfails 3: Replace unsupported sales claims, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/our-propertiesfails 3: Replace unsupported sales claims, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/privacy-policyfails 3: Fix title lengths, Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/aboutfails 2: Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/contact-usfails 2: Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page/galleryfails 2: Link straight to the final address and Set a share image1 page
And 11 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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