SEO report for www.bigcommerce.com

Real-world speed Google PageSpeed

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Authority & backlinks

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Indexing & crawling 100%

Can search engines reach, read and index this page?

• ✓

  Status codecritical

  The page returned HTTP 200.

• ✓

  Indexablecritical

  No noindex instruction – the page can appear in search.

• ✓

  robots.txthigh

  robots.txt found.

  Googlebot is allowed to crawl this page.

• ✓

  XML sitemaphigh

  Sitemap found at https://www.bigcommerce.com/blog/sitemap-blog.xml with 739 URLs.

  Declared in robots.txt.

  This page is NOT listed in it.

  Most recent lastmod: 2026-10-30T18:25:26.672Z.

• ✓

  Canonical URLhigh

  Canonical: https://www.bigcommerce.com/

  Points to this page (self-referencing).

• ✓

  Redirectshigh

  1 redirect before the page loaded.

  https://bigcommerce.com/ → https://www.bigcommerce.com/

  A single redirect to your preferred address is normal; just make sure your own links use the final address.

• ✓

  www / non-wwwmedium

  bigcommerce.com redirects to www.bigcommerce.com.

• ✓

  hreflangmedium

  15 hreflang link(s).

  All language codes are valid.

Search snippet & sharing 100%

How the page looks in Google results and when shared.

• ✓

  Title tagcritical

  “Commerce built for momentum. | BigCommerce”

  About 423px of Google's ~580px desktop width.

• ✓

  Meta descriptionhigh

  122 characters, ~784px of ~990px.

  Good length.

  Google sometimes rewrites descriptions to match the search; a good one is still used most often.

• ✓

  Open Graph & social cardsmedium

  Open Graph title and image set.

  Twitter/X card: summary_large_image.

• ✓

  Faviconlow

  Favicon linked (Google shows it next to results).

• ✓

  Languagelow

  lang="en-US"

Content quality 90%

Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?

• ✓

  Word countmedium

  1,058 words of main content (menus and footer excluded).

  Google has no minimum word count – this is a rough guide to whether the page answers the question in full.

• ✓

  Readabilitymedium

  Flesch reading ease 51 (fairly easy), about 12 words per sentence.

• ✓

  Topic focushigh

  3 of 3 title keywords appear in the main content.

• ✓

  H1 headingcritical

  “Get your brand ready for agentic commerce .”

• !

  Heading structuremedium

  29 headings for 1058 words – a lot for the amount of text.

  2 skipped level(s), e.g. H2 → H4.

  Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.

  Read the guide: the on-page SEO checklist

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  Text-to-code ratiolow

  9% of the HTML is visible text.

  Fix: Trim unused markup, inline scripts and builder bloat.

AI search readiness 75%

Can ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews read, understand and cite this site?

• ✓

  AI crawler accesshigh

  Search and AI-search crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot…) can read this page.

• ✓

  Snippet controlshigh

  No snippet restrictions – search and AI answers can quote this page.

• ✓

  llms.txtlow

  /llms.txt found.

• !

  Question-led contentmedium

  1 heading(s) phrased as questions, e.g. “Why settle? Create a shopping experience that’s iconic.”.

  Fix: Add headings that match real questions ("How much does…?") followed by a direct one- or two-sentence answer – an easy format for search and AI answers to quote.

  Read the guide: how to write SEO content

• ✓

  Entity clarityhigh

  Identified as: Corporation.

  6 official profile link(s) (sameAs).

• ✗

  Freshness signalsmedium

  No published/updated date found.

  Fix: Show a 'last updated' date and add dateModified to your structured data.

• !

  Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium

  Links found to about and contact; missing privacy.

  Fix: Link to About, Contact and Privacy pages from every page – they help visitors, Google and AI tools see who stands behind the content.

Structured data 100%

Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.

• ✓

  JSON-LD present & validhigh

  3 JSON-LD block(s): Corporation, PostalAddress, WebSite, SearchAction, WebPage.

  All blocks parse correctly.

• ✓

  Required propertiesmedium

  Key types include Google's required properties.

• i

  Breadcrumbslow

  Home page – breadcrumbs not needed.

Links 88%

Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.

• ✓

  Internal linkinghigh

  131 internal and 51 external links.

• !

  Anchor text qualitymedium

  Same text used for different pages: “services”, “contact us”, “overview”.

  1 vague link(s) like “click here” or “read more”.

  Fix: Make every link text describe its destination, e.g. “logo design prices” instead of “click here”.

  Check every link's wording with the free anchor text checker

  Read the guide: internal linking

• ✓

  Broken links (sample)high

  Checked 12 internal link(s).

  No broken links found.

Performance 72%

Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.

• ✓

  Server response (TTFB)high

  699 ms until the first response from our checker, including connection setup (Google rates TTFB good under 0.8 s, poor over 1.8 s).

• ✗

  HTML sizemedium

  978 kB of HTML – heavy for phones (we only analysed the first 1 MB).

  Fix: Remove inline bloat, base64 images and unused markup.

• ✓

  Compressionmedium

  Compressed with br.

• ✓

  Render-blocking resourceshigh

  0 blocking script(s) and 2 stylesheet(s) in <head>.

• ✓

  Scripts & third partiesmedium

  10 script tag(s); files loaded from 2 other domain(s): storage.googleapis.com, fonts.googleapis.com.

• ✗

  Imagesmedium

  60 image(s).

  5 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).

  28 use WebP/AVIF or responsive srcset.

  Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.

  Read the guide: image SEO

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  Cachinglow

  Cache-Control: public, max-age=0, must-revalidate

  Fix: Set Cache-Control so browsers and CDNs can reuse the page.

• ✓

  HTTP/3low

  Server advertises HTTP/3 (faster on mobile networks).

Security 79%

Visitor safety signals that browsers and Google check.

• ✓

  HTTPScritical

  Secure HTTPS with no mixed content.

• ✓

  HTTP → HTTPS redirecthigh

  http:// redirects to https://.

• !

  HSTSmedium

  HSTS: max-age=2592000; includeSubDomains

  max-age is under 6 months – browsers will forget it quickly.

  Fix: Add Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains.

  Read the guide: the technical SEO checklist

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  Security headerslow

  Present: CSP, Referrer-Policy, clickjacking protection.

  Fix: Add X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy and X-Frame-Options (or a CSP).

  Read the guide: the technical SEO checklist

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  Server fingerprintlow

  X-Powered-By reveals “Next.js”.

  Fix: Remove X-Powered-By so attackers can't see your software versions.

Mobile & accessibility 80%

Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.

• ✓

  Mobile viewportcritical

  viewport: width=device-width

• ✓

  Image alt textmedium

  All 60 images have alt text.

• ✓

  Link nameslow

  Every link has a readable name.

• ✗

  Tap-to-contactmedium

  No tel: or mailto: links.

  Fix: Add a tap-to-call or tap-to-email button so phone visitors can contact you instantly.

  Read the guide: mobile-friendly websites

Local SEO not scored

This site doesn't look like a local business, so these checks are shown for information and not scored.

• i

  LocalBusiness markuphigh

  No LocalBusiness structured data.

• i

  Contact details on pagemedium

  No phone number found.

  No postcode found (fine for service-area businesses).

• i

  Map & directionslow

  No map or directions link.