tucsonweekly.com, read 1 day ago. Back to the report
79 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 #117,585 of 263,582Step 1 top 25%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
Add a tap-to-call link
+7 points, to 86, and #54,269, 63,316 places up, and into the top 25%
Add a tap-to-call phone link.
100 pages, 73 of them under /newsopinion/
See the pages
- /
- /archives
- /bestoftucson/best-of-tucson-2026
- /bestoftucson/bot_arts/best-arts-culture
- /bestoftucson/bot_casdining/best-casual-dining
- /bestoftucson/bot_comida/best-comida
- /bestoftucson/bot_fashion/best-fashion-style
- /bestoftucson/bot_kids/best-kids-stuff
- /bestoftucson/bot_media/best-media-mix
- /bestoftucson/bot_out/best-outdoors
- and 90 more in the copied plan
- 2
Answer the first question right under it
+3 points, to 89
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.
98 pages, 73 of them under /newsopinion/
See the pages
- /bestoftucson/best-of-tucson-2026
- /bestoftucson/bot_arts/best-arts-culture
- /bestoftucson/bot_casdining/best-casual-dining
- /bestoftucson/bot_comida/best-comida
- /bestoftucson/bot_fashion/best-fashion-style
- /bestoftucson/bot_kids/best-kids-stuff
- /bestoftucson/bot_media/best-media-mix
- /bestoftucson/bot_out/best-outdoors
- /bestoftucson/bot_spirits/best-spirits-nightlife
- /chow-2/5-points-market-5255216
- and 88 more in the copied plan
- 3
Phrase headings as questions
+2 points, to 91
Phrase at least one heading as the question a person would ask.
98 pages, 73 of them under /newsopinion/
See the pages
- /bestoftucson/best-of-tucson-2026
- /bestoftucson/bot_arts/best-arts-culture
- /bestoftucson/bot_casdining/best-casual-dining
- /bestoftucson/bot_comida/best-comida
- /bestoftucson/bot_fashion/best-fashion-style
- /bestoftucson/bot_kids/best-kids-stuff
- /bestoftucson/bot_media/best-media-mix
- /bestoftucson/bot_out/best-outdoors
- /bestoftucson/bot_spirits/best-spirits-nightlife
- /chow-2/5-points-market-5255216
- and 88 more in the copied plan
- 4
Add depth to thin pages
+2 points, to 93
Add true, specific detail until the page covers its subject.
79 pages, 65 of them under /newsopinion/
See the pages
- /bestoftucson/best-of-tucson-2026
- /chow-2/5-points-market-5255216
- /chow-2/bobos-restaurant-5008000
- /chow-2/cafe-francais-5000241
- /chow-2/chop-shop-4925109
- /chow-2/reforma-cocina-and-cantina-5068234
- /chow-2/seeds-of-growth-5683073
- /chow-2/zaatar-5018489
- /music/best-albums-of-2012-3606590
- /music/yo-la-tengo-3743899
- and 69 more in the copied plan
- 5
Fix description lengths
+1 point, to 94
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
100 pages, 73 of them under /newsopinion/
See the pages
- /
- /archives
- /bestoftucson/best-of-tucson-2026
- /bestoftucson/bot_arts/best-arts-culture
- /bestoftucson/bot_casdining/best-casual-dining
- /bestoftucson/bot_comida/best-comida
- /bestoftucson/bot_fashion/best-fashion-style
- /bestoftucson/bot_kids/best-kids-stuff
- /bestoftucson/bot_media/best-media-mix
- /bestoftucson/bot_out/best-outdoors
- and 90 more in the copied plan
- 6
Describe images
+2 points, to 96
Describe every content image in its alt text.
100 pages, 73 of them under /newsopinion/
See the pages
- /
- /archives
- /bestoftucson/best-of-tucson-2026
- /bestoftucson/bot_arts/best-arts-culture
- /bestoftucson/bot_casdining/best-casual-dining
- /bestoftucson/bot_comida/best-comida
- /bestoftucson/bot_fashion/best-fashion-style
- /bestoftucson/bot_kids/best-kids-stuff
- /bestoftucson/bot_media/best-media-mix
- /bestoftucson/bot_out/best-outdoors
- and 90 more in the copied plan
- 7
Put figures in tables
+2 points, to 98
Where the guide compares options or gives figures, put them in a table.
98 pages, 73 of them under /newsopinion/
See the pages
- /bestoftucson/best-of-tucson-2026
- /bestoftucson/bot_arts/best-arts-culture
- /bestoftucson/bot_casdining/best-casual-dining
- /bestoftucson/bot_comida/best-comida
- /bestoftucson/bot_fashion/best-fashion-style
- /bestoftucson/bot_kids/best-kids-stuff
- /bestoftucson/bot_media/best-media-mix
- /bestoftucson/bot_out/best-outdoors
- /bestoftucson/bot_spirits/best-spirits-nightlife
- /chow-2/5-points-market-5255216
- and 88 more in the copied plan
- 8
Link straight to the final address
+1 point, to 99
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
99 pages, 73 of them under /newsopinion/
See the pages
- /archives
- /bestoftucson/best-of-tucson-2026
- /bestoftucson/bot_arts/best-arts-culture
- /bestoftucson/bot_casdining/best-casual-dining
- /bestoftucson/bot_comida/best-comida
- /bestoftucson/bot_fashion/best-fashion-style
- /bestoftucson/bot_kids/best-kids-stuff
- /bestoftucson/bot_media/best-media-mix
- /bestoftucson/bot_out/best-outdoors
- /bestoftucson/bot_spirits/best-spirits-nightlife
- and 89 more in the copied plan
- 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.
25 pages, 15 of them under /newsopinion/
See the pages
- /
- /archives
- /bestoftucson/bot_comida/best-comida
- /bestoftucson/bot_media/best-media-mix
- /bestoftucson/bot_out/best-outdoors
- /chow-2/cafe-francais-5000241
- /chow-2/chop-shop-4925109
- /chow-2/zaatar-5018489
- /music/yo-la-tengo-3743899
- /newsopinion/billy-sedlmayr-3840272
- and 15 more in the copied plan
5 more, to tidy up after 100
- 10
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.
4 pages, 3 of them under /newsopinion/
See the pages
- /newsopinion/cyndi-lauper-3823015
- /newsopinion/the-year-of-romo-5250988
- /newsopinion/todd-rundgren-3831017
- /uncategorized/d-s-rescue-2570218
- 11
Make near-copy pages distinct
Under a point
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
- 12
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
- 13
Set a share image
Under a point
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
2 pages
See the pages
- /archives
- /uncategorized/d-s-rescue-2570218
- 14
Replace unsupported sales claims
Under a point
Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.
1 page
See the pages
- /bestoftucson/bot_arts/best-arts-culture
Done since the first read
Speed up the server
Done, seen on the read of October 19. It failed on 1 page before.
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 18 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/newsopinion/people-who-steal-really-suck-38354475.6 s/uncategorized/new-beginnings-yume-japanese-gardens-reopens-in-tucson126 ms/bestoftucson/best-of-tucson-2026126 ms/cityweek/city-week-week-of-oct-22-202691 ms/newsopinion/curr/safe-at-home-tucson-hosts-lgbtq-softball-world-series90 ms
Fastest: /chow-2/cafe-francais-5000241, 12 ms. Heaviest: the home page, 48 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
nginxServer
- GGoogle AnalyticsAnalytics
Google reCAPTCHALibrary
jQueryLibrary
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: an Organization named Tucson Weekly. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- FacebookTucsonWeekly
- XTucsonWeekly
- page with strong signs
- 1
- hidden characters
- 1
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 0.5
/bestoftucson/bot_spirits/best-spirits-nightlifehidden 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: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/archivesfails 6: Add a tap-to-call link, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/newsopinion/73 fail a rule. Worst: /newsopinion/cyndi-lauper-3823015, 10 rules73 pages/bestoftucson/9 fail a rule. Worst: /bestoftucson/best-of-tucson-2026, 8 rules9 pages/chow-2/7 fail a rule. Worst: /chow-2/cafe-francais-5000241, 9 rules7 pages/uncategorized/6 fail a rule. Worst: /uncategorized/d-s-rescue-2570218, 11 rules6 pages/music/2 fail a rule. Worst: /music/yo-la-tengo-3743899, 9 rules2 pages/cityweek/1 fail a rule. Worst: /cityweek/city-week-week-of-oct-22-2026, 7 rules1 page
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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