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SEO report: makingofsoftware.com scores 68/100

Fix these first

Your site is built with WordPress. The steps below say where each setting is, and our WordPress SEO guide walks through the rest.

H1 headingcritical
No H1 heading.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
On WordPress: Most themes show the page title as the H1. In the editor, make sure no other block uses Heading 1 – use Heading 2 for sections.
See the details
Meta descriptionhigh
No meta description – Google will pick text from the page.
Fix: Write a 140–155 character description that answers the searcher's question and invites the click.
On WordPress: Edit the page and scroll to the Yoast SEO or Rank Math box (install one of these free plugins if you have neither), then fill in the meta description.
Write one free with the AI title & description writer
Read the guide: how to write meta descriptions
See the details
Entity clarityhigh
No Organization / LocalBusiness structured data – search engines and AI have to guess who runs this site.
Fix: Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, url, logo, contact details and sameAs links to your official profiles.
Make the code with the free local business schema generator
Read the guide: schema markup
See the details
JSON-LD present & validhigh
No JSON-LD structured data.
Fix: Add JSON-LD describing the business and the page (Organization/LocalBusiness, WebSite, WebPage or Article, BreadcrumbList).
Make valid code with the free schema generator
Read the guide: schema markup
See the details
Render-blocking resourceshigh
2 blocking script(s) and 2 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
Read the guide: Core Web Vitals
See the details
Title tagcritical
“The Making of Software | software engineering applied”
Fix: Write a unique title of roughly 50–60 characters with the main search phrase first.
On WordPress: Edit the page and scroll to the Yoast SEO or Rank Math box (install one of these free plugins if you have neither), then fill in the SEO title.
Preview and measure your title with the free title tag checker
Read the guide: how to write title tags
See the details
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0 – blocks pinch-zoom
Fix: Use <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> and allow zoom.
Read the guide: mobile-friendly websites
See the details
Open Graph & social cardsmedium
Open Graph title or image missing.
Fix: Add og:title, og:description, og:image (1200×630 PNG/JPG, absolute URL) and twitter:card=summary_large_image.
On WordPress: Yoast SEO and Rank Math add these tags for you. Set a sharing image in the plugin's Social tab on each page.
Make the tags with the free Open Graph generator
Read the guide: does social media help SEO?
See the details

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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 index found at https://makingofsoftware.com/wp-sitemap.xml listing 5 sitemaps.
Declared in robots.txt.
No lastmod dates – add accurate ones so search engines know what changed.
✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://makingofsoftware.com/
Points to this page (self-referencing).
✓
Redirectshigh
Loads directly with no redirects.
✓
www / non-wwwmedium
www.makingofsoftware.com redirects to makingofsoftware.com.

Content quality 60%

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

✓
Word countmedium
400 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 50 (fairly easy), about 12 words per sentence.
✓
Topic focushigh
3 of 4 title keywords appear in the main content (missing: applied).
✗
H1 headingcritical
No H1 heading.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
On WordPress: Most themes show the page title as the H1. In the editor, make sure no other block uses Heading 1 – use Heading 2 for sections.
✓
Heading structuremedium
7 headings for 400 words.
Levels are in order.
✗
Text-to-code ratiolow
1% of the HTML is visible text.
Fix: Trim unused markup, inline scripts and builder bloat.

AI search readiness 50%

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
No /llms.txt file. It's an optional, emerging convention – few AI tools are confirmed to read it yet, so this is low priority.
Fix: Optionally add /llms.txt: a short Markdown summary of who you are with links to your key pages.
Make one with the free llms.txt generator
Read the guide: do you need llms.txt?
!
Question-led contentmedium
2 heading(s) phrased as questions, e.g. “The Code Issue: What is Code?”.
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
No Organization / LocalBusiness structured data – search engines and AI have to guess who runs this site.
Fix: Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, url, logo, contact details and sameAs links to your official profiles.
Make the code with the free local business schema generator
Read the guide: schema markup
✗
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 privacy; missing contact.
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 0%

Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.

✗
JSON-LD present & validhigh
No JSON-LD structured data.
Fix: Add JSON-LD describing the business and the page (Organization/LocalBusiness, WebSite, WebPage or Article, BreadcrumbList).
Make valid code with the free schema generator
Read the guide: schema markup
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Breadcrumbslow
Home page – breadcrumbs not needed.

Links 88%

Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.

✓
Internal linkinghigh
46 internal and 0 external links.
!
Anchor text qualitymedium
Same text used for different pages: “software engineering”, “requirements”, “tools”, “about”.
6 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 60%

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

✓
Server response (TTFB)high
634 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
217 kB of HTML.
Fix: Remove inline bloat, base64 images and unused markup.
✓
Compressionmedium
Compressed with br.
✗
Render-blocking resourceshigh
2 blocking script(s) and 2 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
Read the guide: Core Web Vitals
!
Scripts & third partiesmedium
20 script tag(s); files loaded from 0 other domain(s).
Fix: Remove unused tracking and widget scripts; every third party adds connection time.
Read the guide: Core Web Vitals
✓
Imagesmedium
1 image(s).
All images reserve their space.
0 use WebP/AVIF or responsive srcset.
✗
Cachinglow
No Cache-Control header.
Fix: Set Cache-Control so browsers and CDNs can reuse the page.
i
HTTP/3low
Couldn't be confirmed from our server – the alt-svc header that advertises HTTP/3 isn't always visible to it. Your site is on Cloudflare, which offers HTTP/3 under Network settings.

Security 92%

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=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload
✗
Security headerslow
Present: nosniff.
Fix: Add X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy and X-Frame-Options (or a CSP).
Read the guide: the technical SEO checklist
✓
Server fingerprintlow
No X-Powered-By header (server: cloudflare).

Mobile & accessibility 63%

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

!
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=0 – blocks pinch-zoom
Fix: Use <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> and allow zoom.
Read the guide: mobile-friendly websites
✓
Image alt textmedium
All 1 images have alt text.
✓
Form labelsmedium
All 1 form fields are labelled.
✓
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.

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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.

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SEO report for makingofsoftware.com

Fix these first

Real-world speed Google PageSpeed

Authority & backlinks

Indexing & crawling 100%

Status codecritical

Indexablecritical

robots.txthigh

XML sitemaphigh

Canonical URLhigh

Redirectshigh

www / non-wwwmedium

Search snippet & sharing 38%

Title tagcritical

Meta descriptionhigh

Open Graph & social cardsmedium

Faviconlow

Languagelow

Content quality 60%

Word countmedium

Readabilitymedium

Topic focushigh

H1 headingcritical

Heading structuremedium

Text-to-code ratiolow

AI search readiness 50%

AI crawler accesshigh

Snippet controlshigh

llms.txtlow

Question-led contentmedium

Entity clarityhigh

Freshness signalsmedium

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

Structured data 0%

JSON-LD present & validhigh

Breadcrumbslow

Links 88%

Internal linkinghigh

Anchor text qualitymedium

Broken links (sample)high

Performance 60%

Server response (TTFB)high

HTML sizemedium

Compressionmedium

Render-blocking resourceshigh

Scripts & third partiesmedium

Imagesmedium

Cachinglow

HTTP/3low

Security 92%

HTTPScritical

HTTP → HTTPS redirecthigh

HSTSmedium

Security headerslow

Server fingerprintlow

Mobile & accessibility 63%

Mobile viewportcritical

Image alt textmedium

Form labelsmedium

Link nameslow

Tap-to-contactmedium

Local SEO not scored

LocalBusiness markuphigh

Contact details on pagemedium

Map & directionslow