up-front.com, read 4 days ago. Back to the report
95 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 #5,184 of 263,584Step 1 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
Bring deep pages closer to home
+3 points, to 98, and #638, 4,546 places up, and into the top 1%
Link to the page from a hub or a related page so it sits within three clicks of the home page.
49 pages under /event/
See the pages
- /event/4920
- /event/ahmed-dickinson-cardenas-and-eduardo-martin-classical-guitar-concert
- /event/aladdin-and-his-amazing-lamp-3
- /event/all-at-sea-green-door-artists
- /event/an-evening-of-music-food-with-the-upfront-kitchen-and-live-musician-paddy-rogan-free-event
- /event/an-evening-of-music-food-with-the-upfront-kitchen-paddy-rogan-live
- /event/an-evening-of-music-food-with-upfront-kitchen-ft-heather-cartwright
- /event/antique-fair
- /event/brushstrokes-creative-thinking-in-paint-and-clay
- /event/christmas-wreath-making-workshop
- and 39 more in the copied plan
- 2
Describe images
+1 point, to 99
Describe every content image in its alt text.
38 pages, 27 of them under /event/
See the pages
- /
- /about-us
- /about-us/location
- /about-us/portfolio
- /event/all-at-sea-green-door-artists
- /event/an-dannsa-dub-future-dub-from-ancient-scotland
- /event/antique-fair
- /event/autumn-exhibition-until-early-november
- /event/christmas-exhibition
- /event/dub-n-grub-ft-mungos-hi-fi
- and 28 more in the copied plan
- 3
Fix title lengths
Under a point
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
14 pages
See the pages
- /about-us
- /about-us/portfolio
- /contact-us
- /event/an-evening-of-music-food-with-the-upfront-kitchen-paddy-rogan-live
- /event/antique-fair
- /event/kris-drever-solo-support-from-polly-paulusma
- /event/raz-afla
- /event/spring-rising
- /event/sradag-spark-2
- /event/tamsin-elliott-solana-tarek-elazhary
- and 4 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.
6 pages under /event/
See the pages
- /event/an-evening-of-music-food-with-upfront-kitchen-ft-heather-cartwright
- /event/dub-grub-ft-nick-manasseh
- /event/dub-n-grub-presents-omega-nebula-live
- /event/kris-drever-chris-stout
- /event/kris-drever-solo-support-from-polly-paulusma
- /event/raz-afla
5 more, to tidy up after 100
- 5
List your profiles in your structured data
Under a point
Add sameAs to the Organization, Person or LocalBusiness on your home page, listing the address of each profile: Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, X, LinkedIn. It is how assistants tie your site to you elsewhere.
Once, for the whole site
- 6
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
- 7
Use one main heading
Under a point
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
3 pages
See the pages
- /
- /finding-peace-within-a-troubled-world-a-buddhist-approach
- /wedding-venue
- 8
Fix description lengths
Under a point
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
3 pages
See the pages
- /christmas-winter-opening-hours
- /event/rory-mcleod
- /events
- 9
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
- /event/sradag-spark
What else the read found
Half its pages start answering within 133 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/news616 ms/597 ms/coffee-shop-and-cafe579 ms/events515 ms/gallery510 ms
Fastest: /event/jack-and-the-beanstalk, 117 ms. Heaviest: /events, 34 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
CloudflareHosting
- GGoogle AnalyticsAnalytics
Cloudflare Web AnalyticsAnalytics
Meta PixelMarketing
jQueryLibrary
Google FontsFonts
Font AwesomeFonts
From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: an Organization named Upfront. mttr does not check the profiles it names.
- pages with strong signs
- 0
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 0
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 8.4
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 2: Use one main heading and Describe images1 page/wedding-venuefails 3: Use one main heading, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/about-usfails 2: Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/eventsfails 2: Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/finding-peace-within-a-troubled-world-a-buddhist-approachfails 2: Use one main heading and Describe images1 page/gift-shopfails 2: Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/christmas-winter-opening-hoursfails 1: Fix description lengths1 page/contact-usfails 1: Fix title lengths1 page/galleryfails 1: Describe images1 page/newsfails 1: Fix title lengths1 page/privacy-policyfails 1: Fix title lengths1 page/puppet-theatrefails 1: Describe images1 page
And 8 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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