vashonhousehold.org, read 2 days ago. Back to the report
84 to 100 in 11 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 #73,464 of 264,649Step 1 top 25%Step 11 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 87, and #46,912, 26,552 places up, and into the top 25%
Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.
26 pages
See the pages
- /
- /advocacy
- /affordable-homes
- /affordable-rentals
- /apply-for-housing
- /bcbodlte
- /board
- /cart
- /community-land-trust-model
- /contact
- and 16 more in the copied plan
- 2
Describe images
+3 points, to 90
Describe every content image in its alt text.
20 pages
See the pages
- /
- /advocacy
- /affordable-homes
- /affordable-rentals
- /apply-for-housing
- /board
- /community-land-trust-model
- /donate
- /donate-real-estate
- /home
- and 10 more in the copied plan
- 3
Use one main heading
+2 points, to 92
Give the page exactly one h1 that says what it is about.
11 pages
See the pages
- /advocacy
- /affordable-homes
- /apply-for-housing
- /bcbodlte
- /cart
- /faq
- /ichservices
- /impact-on-the-community
- /our-team
- /raise-the-roof
- and 1 more in the copied plan
- 4
Link straight to the final address
+2 points, to 94
Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.
25 pages
See the pages
- /advocacy
- /affordable-homes
- /affordable-rentals
- /apply-for-housing
- /bcbodlte
- /board
- /cart
- /community-land-trust-model
- /contact
- /donate
- and 15 more in the copied plan
- 5
Fix pages that fail to load
+2 points, to 96
Fix or remove the link. Every linked page should return 200.
5 pages
See the pages
- /Island%20Center%20Homes%20projects%20gets%20needed%20funds
- /Vashon%20HouseHold%20Looks%20For%20a%20New%20Leader
- /existing-properties
- /home-share
- /volunteer
- 6
Set a share image
+2 points, to 98
Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.
22 pages
See the pages
- /advocacy
- /affordable-homes
- /affordable-rentals
- /apply-for-housing
- /bcbodlte
- /board
- /community-land-trust-model
- /contact
- /donate
- /donate-real-estate
- and 12 more in the copied plan
- 7
Fix title lengths
+1 point, to 99
Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.
8 pages
See the pages
- /board
- /contact
- /donate
- /faq
- /our-story-1
- /our-team
- /para-espaol
- and 1 more in the copied plan
- 8
Link to orphaned pages
Under a point
Link to each of these from a related page. A page only the sitemap knows about is treated as unimportant.
Once, for the whole site
- 9
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
- 10
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
- 11
Set each page's canonical address
+1 point, to 100, and full marks
Add a canonical link that points to the page itself.
2 pages
See the pages
- /cart
- /home
1 more, to tidy up after 100
- 12
Replace unsupported sales claims
Under a point
Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.
1 page
See the pages
- /raise-the-roof
Done since the first read
Add a way to get in touch
Done, seen on the read of October 24. It failed on 4 pages before.
Add a tap-to-call link
Done, seen on the read of October 24. It failed on 5 pages before.
Speed up the server
Done, seen on the read of October 24. It failed on 1 page before.
Add structured data
Done, seen on the read of October 24. It failed on 4 pages before.
Settle on one address
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 395 ms, inside the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.
/sponsor788 ms/impact-on-the-community702 ms/our-team660 ms/donate-real-estate612 ms/affordable-rentals612 ms
Fastest: /, 45 ms. Heaviest: /board, 70 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.
SquarespacePlatform
- GGoogle AnalyticsAnalytics
MailchimpMarketing
Adobe FontsFonts
- page with strong signs
- 1
- hidden characters
- 0
- chat, markdown or placeholders left in
- 1
- dashes per 1,000 words
- 2.6
/sponsormarkdown never turned into formatting
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: Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/existing-propertiespasses every rule1 page/home-sharepasses every rule1 page/Island%20Center%20Homes%20projects%20gets%20needed%20fundspasses every rule1 page/Vashon%20HouseHold%20Looks%20For%20a%20New%20Leaderpasses every rule1 page/volunteerpasses every rule1 page/our-teamfails 6: Use one main heading, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/advocacyfails 5: Use one main heading, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/affordable-homesfails 5: Use one main heading, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/apply-for-housingfails 5: Use one main heading, Fix description lengths and Describe images1 page/boardfails 5: Fix description lengths, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page/donatefails 5: Fix description lengths, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page
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