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9090 nownow931top 10%9529639849959969979981009full marks

Now #30,893 of 263,590Step 1 top 10%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. 1

    Answer the first question right under it

    +3 points, to 93, and #10,777, 20,116 places up, and into the top 10%

    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.

    94 pages

    See the pages
    • /2013/04/the-life-of-a-57-chevy
    • /2013/05/maggie-ingram-and-the-ingramettes-nominated-for-ima-gospel-album-of-the-year
    • /2014/01/a-conversation-with-laura-ortiz
    • /2014/05/a-share-of-honour
    • /2014/06/meet-vfh-board-member-walter-rugaber
    • /2014/07/meet-vfh-board-member-barbara-fried
    • /2014/07/meet-vfh-board-member-bob-brink
    • /2014/10/meet-vfh-board-member-daphne-maxwell-reid
    • /2015/07/five-questions-for-ted-delaney
    • /2015/11/interview-with-greg-omalley
    • and 84 more in the copied plan
  2. 2

    Phrase headings as questions

    +2 points, to 95

    Phrase at least one heading as the question a person would ask.

    94 pages

    See the pages
    • /2013/04/the-life-of-a-57-chevy
    • /2013/05/maggie-ingram-and-the-ingramettes-nominated-for-ima-gospel-album-of-the-year
    • /2014/01/a-conversation-with-laura-ortiz
    • /2014/05/a-share-of-honour
    • /2014/06/meet-vfh-board-member-walter-rugaber
    • /2014/07/meet-vfh-board-member-barbara-fried
    • /2014/07/meet-vfh-board-member-bob-brink
    • /2014/10/meet-vfh-board-member-daphne-maxwell-reid
    • /2015/07/five-questions-for-ted-delaney
    • /2015/11/interview-with-greg-omalley
    • and 84 more in the copied plan
  3. 3

    Fix description lengths

    +1 point, to 96

    Write a meta description of 70 to 165 characters that summarizes the page.

    100 pages

    See the pages
    • /
    • /2013/04/the-life-of-a-57-chevy
    • /2013/05/maggie-ingram-and-the-ingramettes-nominated-for-ima-gospel-album-of-the-year
    • /2014/01/a-conversation-with-laura-ortiz
    • /2014/05/a-share-of-honour
    • /2014/06/meet-vfh-board-member-walter-rugaber
    • /2014/07/meet-vfh-board-member-barbara-fried
    • /2014/07/meet-vfh-board-member-bob-brink
    • /2014/10/meet-vfh-board-member-daphne-maxwell-reid
    • /2015/07/five-questions-for-ted-delaney
    • and 90 more in the copied plan
  4. 4

    Put figures in tables

    +2 points, to 98

    Where the guide compares options or gives figures, put them in a table.

    94 pages

    See the pages
    • /2013/04/the-life-of-a-57-chevy
    • /2013/05/maggie-ingram-and-the-ingramettes-nominated-for-ima-gospel-album-of-the-year
    • /2014/01/a-conversation-with-laura-ortiz
    • /2014/05/a-share-of-honour
    • /2014/06/meet-vfh-board-member-walter-rugaber
    • /2014/07/meet-vfh-board-member-barbara-fried
    • /2014/07/meet-vfh-board-member-bob-brink
    • /2014/10/meet-vfh-board-member-daphne-maxwell-reid
    • /2015/07/five-questions-for-ted-delaney
    • /2015/11/interview-with-greg-omalley
    • and 84 more in the copied plan
  5. 5

    Describe images

    +1 point, to 99

    Describe every content image in its alt text.

    70 pages

    See the pages
    • /
    • /2014/01/a-conversation-with-laura-ortiz
    • /2015/07/five-questions-for-ted-delaney
    • /2015/11/interview-with-greg-omalley
    • /2016/03/holmes-nelson
    • /2016/04/bearing-witness
    • /2016/10/remembering-the-forgotten-war
    • /2017/01/telling-untold-stories
    • /2017/03/prisoners-of-history
    • /2017/03/the-art-of-emancipation
    • and 60 more in the copied plan
  6. 6

    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

  7. 7

    Speed up the server

    Under a point

    Cache pages or speed up the server. Crawlers give a slow site fewer visits.

    Once, for the whole site

  8. 8

    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

  9. 9

    Add depth to thin pages

    +1 point, to 100, and full marks

    Add true, specific detail until the page covers its subject.

    26 pages

    See the pages
    • /2014/06/meet-vfh-board-member-walter-rugaber
    • /2014/07/meet-vfh-board-member-barbara-fried
    • /2014/07/meet-vfh-board-member-bob-brink
    • /2014/10/meet-vfh-board-member-daphne-maxwell-reid
    • /2016/08/meet-vfh-board-member-renee-grisham
    • /2018/09/american-dissent
    • /2018/12/new-virginians
    • /2019/04/dr-beverly-tatum
    • /2019/05/banking-on-freedom
    • /2019/06/meet-virginia-humanities-board-member-will-trinkle
    • and 16 more in the copied plan
4 more, to tidy up after 100
  1. 10

    Fix title lengths

    Under a point

    Write a title of 15 to 65 characters that leads with what the page covers.

    12 pages

    See the pages
    • /
    • /2013/05/maggie-ingram-and-the-ingramettes-nominated-for-ima-gospel-album-of-the-year
    • /2016/05/history-united-renewing-community-danville
    • /2017/11/rob-looks-back
    • /2018/12/new-virginians
    • /2019/03/just-say-no
    • /2019/07/virginia-humanities-awarded-grant-from-the-national-trust-for-historic-preservation
    • /2019/09/richmond-folk-fest-2019
    • /2019/10/eliza-eliza
    • /2020/04/more-than-1-million-available-for-virginia-arts-and-humanities-organizations-struggling-due-to-covid-19
    • and 2 more in the copied plan
  2. 11

    Replace unsupported sales claims

    Under a point

    Replace the sales claim with a fact that can be checked.

    8 pages

    See the pages
    • /2017/12/changing-the-narrative
    • /2018/06/wgr-montpelier-partner-on-constitutional-podcast
    • /2018/10/on-the-beat
    • /2019/01/turning-the-page
    • /2019/03/book-festival-live-streams
    • /2019/11/va-festival-of-the-book-announces-2020-line-up-and-headliners
    • /2020/03/va-black-public-history-institute
    • /episode/hard-news
  3. 12

    Set a share image

    Under a point

    Set og:image so links to the page carry a picture.

    7 pages, 4 of them under /2020/

    See the pages
    • /
    • /2017/08/a-commitment-to-inclusion
    • /2020/02/our-grant-guidelines-are-being-updated
    • /2020/04/humanities-needs-survey
    • /2020/04/open-grant-deadline-extended
    • /2020/05/cares-act-grants-announced
    • /news
  4. 13

    Link straight to the final address

    Under a point

    Point links and the sitemap at the final address, not at one that redirects.

    5 pages, 4 of them under /episode/

    See the pages
    • /2019/03/11/stories-of-the-south-at-whitney-plantation
    • /episode/gun-sense
    • /episode/hard-news
    • /episode/presenting-overcoming-extremism
    • /episode/wearing-down-the-appalachian-trail

What else the read found

Half its pages take over 852 ms to start answering, past the 800 ms a crawler is patient with. Caching or a faster server helps every page at once. One fetch a page, the way a crawler sees it.

  • /2019/03/just-say-no2.1 s
  • /2020/01/virginia-festival-of-the-book-announces-2020-schedule2.0 s
  • /2017/08/the-end-of-mormon-polygamy1.9 s
  • /2019/01/documentary-spotlights-ev1.7 s
  • /2015/11/interview-with-greg-omalley1.7 s

Fastest: /2019/09/richmond-folk-fest-2019, 17 ms. Heaviest: /episode/wearing-down-the-appalachian-trail, 45 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
  • Google AnalyticsAnalytics
  • jQueryLibrary
  • Adobe FontsFonts
  • Font AwesomeFonts

From the structured data on its home page, as the site says it: an Organization named Virginia Humanities. mttr does not check the profiles it names.

  • FacebookVirginiaHumanities
  • Xvahumanities
  • Instagramva_humanities
  • LinkedInvirginia-foundation-for-the-humanities
  • YouTubeVFHwebdev
  • WikipediaVirginia_Foundation_for_the_Humanities
page with strong signs
1
hidden characters
2
chat, markdown or placeholders left in
0
dashes per 1,000 words
3.7
  • /2019/09/tangier-hermitage hidden 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: Fix description lengths, Describe images and Fix title lengths1 page
  • /news fails 3: Fix description lengths, Fix title lengths and Set a share image1 page
  • /2019/ 26 fail a rule. Worst: /2019/01/turning-the-page, 6 rules26 pages
  • /2020/ 25 fail a rule. Worst: /2020/04/virginia-humanities-to-award-cares-act-funds-to-virginia-nonprofits-in-need, 7 rules25 pages
  • /2017/ 14 fail a rule. Worst: /2017/08/a-commitment-to-inclusion, 6 rules14 pages
  • /2018/ 13 fail a rule. Worst: /2018/06/wgr-montpelier-partner-on-constitutional-podcast, 6 rules13 pages
  • /2014/ 6 fail a rule. Worst: /2014/01/a-conversation-with-laura-ortiz, 5 rules6 pages
  • /2016/ 6 fail a rule. Worst: /2016/03/holmes-nelson, 5 rules6 pages
  • /episode/ 4 fail a rule. Worst: /episode/hard-news, 4 rules4 pages
  • /2013/ 2 fail a rule. Worst: /2013/05/maggie-ingram-and-the-ingramettes-nominated-for-ima-gospel-album-of-the-year, 5 rules2 pages
  • /2015/ 2 fail a rule. Worst: /2015/07/five-questions-for-ted-delaney, 5 rules2 pages

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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