SEO report for usesthis.com
https://usesthis.com/ · checked Sun, 01 Nov 2026 20:10 GMT
Fix these first
- 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.
- 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).
- Title tagcritical
“Uses This”
Fix: Write a unique title of roughly 50–60 characters with the main search phrase first.
- www / non-wwwmedium
Both www.usesthis.com and usesthis.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
93 words of main content (inside <main>).
Fix: Add genuinely useful content: key service pages usually need 400+ words to answer what customers ask.
- Question-led contentmedium
No headings phrased as questions.
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.
- Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium
Links found to about; missing contact and 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.
- HSTSmedium
No Strict-Transport-Security header.
Fix: Add Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains.
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 usesthis.com…
Indexing & crawling 85%
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://usesthis.com/sitemap.xml with 1,439 URLs.
Declared in robots.txt.
This page is NOT listed in it.
Most recent lastmod: 2026-10-31.
- !
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://usesthis.com/interviews/
Points to a DIFFERENT address – Google will probably index that one instead of this page.
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.usesthis.com and usesthis.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 63%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- !
Title tagcritical
“Uses This”
About 89px of Google's ~580px desktop width – short; use the space.
Fix: Write a unique title of roughly 50–60 characters with the main search phrase first.
- ✓
Meta descriptionhigh
136 characters, ~831px of ~990px.
Good length.
Google sometimes rewrites descriptions to match the search; a good one is still used most often.
- ✗
Faviconlow
No favicon linked.
Fix: Add a square favicon at least 48×48px.
- ✓
Languagelow
lang="en-US"
Content quality 85%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- ✗
Word countmedium
93 words of main content (inside <main>).
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
1 of 1 title keywords appear in the main content.
- ✓
H1 headingcritical
“Uses This”
- ✓
Heading structuremedium
7 headings for 93 words.
Levels are in order.
- ✓
Text-to-code ratiolow
12% of the HTML is visible text.
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.
Training-only crawlers blocked: GPTBot. That's a licensing choice – these companies document them as separate from their search crawlers.
- ✓
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
No headings phrased as questions.
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
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.
- ✓
Freshness signalsmedium
The page shows when it was published or last updated.
- ✗
Trust pages (E-E-A-T)medium
Links found to about; missing contact and 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 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).
Links 100%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
29 internal and 2 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.
3 link(s) point to a redirect – link to the final address instead.
Performance 94%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- ✓
Server response (TTFB)high
572 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
8 kB of HTML.
- ✓
Compressionmedium
Compressed with gzip.
- ✓
Render-blocking resourceshigh
0 blocking script(s) and 1 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
- ✓
Scripts & third partiesmedium
0 script tag(s); files loaded from 0 other domain(s).
- ✓
Imagesmedium
5 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.
- ✓
HTTP/3low
Server advertises HTTP/3 (faster on mobile networks).
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.
- ✗
Security headerslow
Present: none.
Fix: Add X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy and X-Frame-Options (or a CSP).
- ✓
Server fingerprintlow
No X-Powered-By header (server: cloudflare).
Mobile & accessibility 83%
Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.
- ✓
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, shrink-to-fit=no
- ✓
Image alt textmedium
All 5 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.
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.