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SEO report: trydecoding.com scores 83/100

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.

Title tagcritical
“Decoding - SEO & AI Optimization Consultancy for SMBs and Agencies”
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
HSTSmedium
No Strict-Transport-Security header.
Fix: Add Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains.
Read the guide: the technical SEO checklist
See the details
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
See the details
Meta descriptionhigh
56 characters, ~384px of ~990px.
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
Server response (TTFB)high
1279 ms until the first response from our checker, including connection setup (Google rates TTFB good under 0.8 s, poor over 1.8 s).
Fix: Use page caching or a CDN (e.g. Cloudflare) so HTML is served from the edge.
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
Faviconlow
No favicon linked.
Fix: Add a square favicon at least 48×48px.
On WordPress: Appearance → Customize → Site Identity → Site Icon (Settings → General in newer versions).
See the details
Readabilitymedium
Flesch reading ease 48 (fairly difficult), about 10 words per sentence.
Fix: Use shorter sentences and everyday words – aim for a score of 50+ for customer-facing pages.
Read the guide: how to write SEO content
See the details

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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://trydecoding.com/sitemap_index.xml listing 2 sitemaps.
Declared in robots.txt.
Most recent lastmod: 2026-04-08T18:50:21+00:00.
✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://trydecoding.com/
Points to this page (self-referencing).
✓
Redirectshigh
Loads directly with no redirects.
✓
www / non-wwwmedium
www.trydecoding.com redirects to trydecoding.com.

Content quality 80%

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

✓
Word countmedium
565 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 48 (fairly difficult), about 10 words per sentence.
Fix: Use shorter sentences and everyday words – aim for a score of 50+ for customer-facing pages.
Read the guide: how to write SEO content
✓
Topic focushigh
6 of 6 title keywords appear in the main content.
✓
H1 headingcritical
“SEO & AI optimization consultancy for SMBs & agencies that actually deliver ROI”
!
Heading structuremedium
32 headings for 565 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.
Read the guide: the on-page SEO checklist
✗
Text-to-code ratiolow
4% of the HTML is visible text.
Fix: Trim unused markup, inline scripts and builder bloat.

AI search readiness 100%

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
7 heading(s) phrased as questions, e.g. “What does Decoding do?”.
✓
Entity clarityhigh
Identified as: Organization, Person.
3 official profile link(s) (sameAs).
✓
Freshness signalsmedium
The page shows when it was published or last updated.
✓
Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium
Links found to all three: about, contact and privacy.

Structured data 100%

Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.

✓
JSON-LD present & validhigh
1 JSON-LD block(s): Place, PostalAddress, Organization, ImageObject, WebSite, SearchAction, WebPage, FAQPage, Question, Answer, Person, Article.
All blocks parse correctly.
✓
Required propertiesmedium
Key types include Google's required properties.
Google now shows FAQ rich results only for well-known government and health sites, but the markup still helps machines read your Q&As.
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Breadcrumbslow
Home page – breadcrumbs not needed.

Links 100%

Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.

✓
Internal linkinghigh
44 internal and 9 external links.
✓
Anchor text qualitymedium
No link text points to two different pages.
✓
Broken links (sample)high
Checked 12 internal link(s).
No broken links found.

Performance 81%

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

!
Server response (TTFB)high
1279 ms until the first response from our checker, including connection setup (Google rates TTFB good under 0.8 s, poor over 1.8 s).
Fix: Use page caching or a CDN (e.g. Cloudflare) so HTML is served from the edge.
✓
HTML sizemedium
121 kB of HTML.
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
0 blocking script(s) and 2 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
✓
Scripts & third partiesmedium
9 script tag(s); files loaded from 1 other domain(s): cloud.umami.is.
!
Imagesmedium
14 image(s).
1 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).
11 image(s) after the first three aren't lazy-loaded.
9 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.
Read the guide: image SEO
✓
Cachinglow
Cache-Control: max-age=14400
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 75%

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.
Read the guide: the technical SEO checklist
✗
Security headerslow
Present: none.
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 80%

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

✓
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
✓
Image alt textmedium
All 14 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.

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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 trydecoding.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 29%

Title tagcritical

Meta descriptionhigh

Open Graph & social cardsmedium

Faviconlow

Languagelow

Content quality 80%

Word countmedium

Readabilitymedium

Topic focushigh

H1 headingcritical

Heading structuremedium

Text-to-code ratiolow

AI search readiness 100%

AI crawler accesshigh

Snippet controlshigh

llms.txtlow

Question-led contentmedium

Entity clarityhigh

Freshness signalsmedium

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

Structured data 100%

JSON-LD present & validhigh

Required propertiesmedium

Breadcrumbslow

Links 100%

Internal linkinghigh

Anchor text qualitymedium

Broken links (sample)high

Performance 81%

Server response (TTFB)high

HTML sizemedium

Compressionmedium

Render-blocking resourceshigh

Scripts & third partiesmedium

Imagesmedium

Cachinglow

HTTP/3low

Security 75%

HTTPScritical

HTTP → HTTPS redirecthigh

HSTSmedium

Security headerslow

Server fingerprintlow

Mobile & accessibility 80%

Mobile viewportcritical

Image alt textmedium

Link nameslow

Tap-to-contactmedium

Local SEO not scored

LocalBusiness markuphigh

Contact details on pagemedium

Map & directionslow