SEO report for thefreesamplesguide.com
https://thefreesamplesguide.com/ · checked Wed, 11 Nov 2026 13:47 GMT
Fix these first
- Indexablecritical
The page tells search engines not to index it (noindex).
Fix: Remove the noindex meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header if this page should be found.
On WordPress: Settings → Reading: untick “Discourage search engines from indexing this site”. In Yoast or Rank Math, check this page isn't set to noindex.
- 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.
- Canonical URLhigh
No canonical tag.
Fix: Add <link rel="canonical" href="(this page's full URL)"> – only point it elsewhere for true duplicates.
- 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.
- Render-blocking resourceshigh
4 blocking script(s) and 30 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- www / non-wwwmedium
Both www.thefreesamplesguide.com and thefreesamplesguide.com load without redirecting – Google may see duplicate sites.
Fix: Pick one version (with or without www) and 301-redirect the other to it.
- Word countmedium
174 words of main content (menus and footer excluded).
Fix: Add genuinely useful content: key service pages usually need 400+ words to answer what customers ask.
- Heading structuremedium
21 headings for 174 words – a lot for the amount of text.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
Real-world speed Google PageSpeed
Loading Core Web Vitals from Google… this can take up to 30 seconds.
Authority & backlinks
Looking up which websites link to thefreesamplesguide.com…
Indexing & crawling 58%
Can search engines reach, read and index this page?
- ✓
Status codecritical
The page returned HTTP 200.
- ✗
Indexablecritical
The page tells search engines not to index it (noindex).
Fix: Remove the noindex meta tag or X-Robots-Tag header if this page should be found.
On WordPress: Settings → Reading: untick “Discourage search engines from indexing this site”. In Yoast or Rank Math, check this page isn't set to noindex.
- ✓
robots.txthigh
robots.txt found.
Googlebot is allowed to crawl this page.
- ✓
XML sitemaphigh
Sitemap index found at https://thefreesamplesguide.com/sitemap_index.xml listing 5 sitemaps.
Declared in robots.txt.
Most recent lastmod: 2026-11-11T08:49:37+00:00.
- ✗
Canonical URLhigh
No canonical tag.
Fix: Add <link rel="canonical" href="(this page's full URL)"> – only point it elsewhere for true duplicates.
- ✓
Redirectshigh
Loads directly with no redirects.
- ✗
www / non-wwwmedium
Both www.thefreesamplesguide.com and thefreesamplesguide.com load without redirecting – Google may see duplicate sites.
Fix: Pick one version (with or without www) and 301-redirect the other to it.
Search snippet & sharing 67%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- ✓
Title tagcritical
“Home - The Free Samples Guide”
About 295px of Google's ~580px desktop width.
- ✗
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.
- ✓
Faviconlow
Favicon linked (Google shows it next to results).
- ✓
Languagelow
lang="en-US"
Content quality 12%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- ✗
Word countmedium
174 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.
Fix: Add genuinely useful content: key service pages usually need 400+ words to answer what customers ask.
- i
Readabilitymedium
Not enough paragraph text to score readability.
- !
Topic focushigh
2 of 4 title keywords appear in the main content (missing: home, guide).
Fix: Use your main title phrases naturally in the opening paragraph and headings.
- ✗
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
21 headings for 174 words – a lot for the amount of text.
Levels are in order.
Fix: Use H2s for main sections and H3s inside them, without skipping levels.
- ✗
Text-to-code ratiolow
1% of the HTML is visible text.
Fix: Trim unused markup, inline scripts and builder bloat.
AI search readiness 72%
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.
- !
Question-led contentmedium
2 heading(s) phrased as questions, e.g. “How Free Sample Programs Have Changed and What That Means for Shoppers”.
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.
- !
Entity clarityhigh
Identified as: Organization.
No sameAs links to official profiles (Google Business Profile, LinkedIn, Facebook, Companies House…).
Fix: Add Organization or LocalBusiness JSON-LD with name, url, logo, contact details and sameAs links to your official profiles.
- ✓
Freshness signalsmedium
The page shows when it was published or last updated.
- !
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 100%
Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.
- ✓
JSON-LD present & validhigh
1 JSON-LD block(s): WebPage, ReadAction, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, WebSite, SearchAction, EntryPoint, PropertyValueSpecification, Organization.
All blocks parse correctly.
- ✓
Required propertiesmedium
Key types include Google's required properties.
Links 75%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
25 internal and 2 external links.
- ✗
Anchor text qualitymedium
Same text used for different pages: “see deals”.
1 link(s) with no text at all.
Fix: Make every link text describe its destination, e.g. “logo design prices” instead of “click here”.
- ✓
Broken links (sample)high
Checked 12 internal link(s).
No broken links found.
Performance 31%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- ✓
Server response (TTFB)high
86 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
245 kB of HTML.
Fix: Remove inline bloat, base64 images and unused markup.
- i
Compressionmedium
Couldn't be measured from our server (our fetch decodes compressed pages before we see them). Check in your browser's developer tools that HTML is sent with br or gzip.
- ✗
Render-blocking resourceshigh
4 blocking script(s) and 30 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- ✗
Scripts & third partiesmedium
40 script tag(s); files loaded from 3 other domain(s): fonts.googleapis.com, sdk.scrptk.com, whatif-assets-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com.
Fix: Remove unused tracking and widget scripts; every third party adds connection time.
- ✗
Imagesmedium
85 image(s).
84 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).
82 image(s) after the first three aren't lazy-loaded.
0 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.
On WordPress: Install a free image optimiser plugin (such as EWWW Image Optimizer or Smush) to shrink images and serve WebP.
- ✗
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 67%
Visitor safety signals that browsers and Google check.
- ✓
HTTPScritical
Secure HTTPS with no mixed content.
- ✓
HTTP → HTTPS redirecthigh
http:// redirects to https://.
- ✗
HSTSmedium
No Strict-Transport-Security header.
Fix: Add Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains.
- ✗
Security headerslow
Present: none.
Fix: Add X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy and X-Frame-Options (or a CSP).
- ✗
Server fingerprintlow
X-Powered-By reveals “PHP/8.2.35”.
Fix: Remove X-Powered-By so attackers can't see your software versions.
Mobile & accessibility 50%
Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.
- ✓
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- !
Image alt textmedium
1 of 85 images have no alt attribute.
Fix: Describe each meaningful image in its alt attribute (use alt="" for decorative ones).
On WordPress: Media → Library: click each image and fill in Alternative Text. For images already on a page, select the image block and fill in Alternative text in the sidebar.
- ✗
Form labelsmedium
2 of 3 form field(s) have no label.
Fix: Give every form field a <label> or aria-label (a placeholder isn't a label).
- ✗
Link nameslow
1 link(s) have no readable name for screen readers.
Fix: Add text or aria-label to icon-only links.
- ✗
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.
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.