SEO report for web.dev
https://web.dev/ · checked Sun, 01 Nov 2026 14:02 GMT
Fix these first
- H1 headingcritical
No H1 heading.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- Title tagcritical
“web.dev”
Fix: Write a unique title of roughly 50–60 characters with the main search phrase first.
- hreflangmedium
44 hreflang link(s).
Fix: Use valid ISO language(-region) codes, absolute URLs, include this page itself, and make sure every alternate links back.
- 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; 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.
- Anchor text qualitymedium
Same text used for different pages: “learn more”, “start course”.
Fix: Make every link text describe its destination, e.g. “logo design prices” instead of “click here”.
- Imagesmedium
10 image(s).
Fix: Give every image width and height, lazy-load images below the fold (but not the main image) and serve WebP/AVIF.
- 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.
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 web.dev…
Indexing & crawling 92%
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://web.dev/sitemap.xml listing 2 sitemaps.
Declared in robots.txt.
Most recent lastmod: 2026-11-01T04:27:36+00:00.
- ✓
Canonical URLhigh
Canonical: https://web.dev/
Points to this page (self-referencing).
- ✓
Redirectshigh
Loads directly with no redirects.
- ✓
www / non-wwwmedium
www.web.dev isn't in use (HTTP 404).
- ✗
hreflangmedium
44 hreflang link(s).
Invalid codes: pt-BR-cn, es-419-cn (use ISO codes such as en-gb – "uk" is not a valid region, use "gb").
Fix: Use valid ISO language(-region) codes, absolute URLs, include this page itself, and make sure every alternate links back.
Search snippet & sharing 67%
How the page looks in Google results and when shared.
- !
Title tagcritical
“web.dev”
About 74px 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
66 characters, ~433px of ~990px.
Short – sell the click with a benefit and a call to action.
Google sometimes rewrites descriptions to match the search; a good one is still used most often.
Fix: Write a 140–155 character description that answers the searcher's question and invites the click.
- ✓
Faviconlow
Favicon linked (Google shows it next to results).
- ✓
Languagelow
lang="en"
Content quality 50%
Is there enough clear, useful text that matches what the page targets?
- ✓
Word countmedium
988 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.
- i
Readabilitymedium
Not enough paragraph text to score readability.
- ✓
Topic focushigh
1 of 1 title keywords appear in the main content.
- ✗
H1 headingcritical
No H1 heading.
Fix: Use one H1 that states the page topic with its main keyword.
- !
Heading structuremedium
49 headings for 988 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
6% of the HTML is visible text.
Fix: Trim unused markup, inline scripts and builder bloat.
AI search readiness 53%
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. “What are source maps?”.
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
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; 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 100%
Machine-readable facts for rich results and AI.
- ✓
JSON-LD present & validhigh
3 JSON-LD block(s): Article, Organization, WebSite, SearchAction.
All blocks parse correctly.
- ✓
Required propertiesmedium
Key types include Google's required properties.
Recommended but missing: Article.headline, Article.image, Article.datePublished, Article.author.
Links 75%
Internal linking, anchor text and broken links.
- ✓
Internal linkinghigh
113 internal and 12 external links.
- ✗
Anchor text qualitymedium
Same text used for different pages: “learn more”, “start course”.
6 vague link(s) like “click here” or “read more”.
6 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 75%
Speed signals from the HTML and server. Real-user Core Web Vitals load below.
- ✓
Server response (TTFB)high
497 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
130 kB of HTML.
- ✓
Compressionmedium
Compressed with gzip.
- !
Render-blocking resourceshigh
0 blocking script(s) and 4 stylesheet(s) in <head>.
Fix: Add defer to scripts, inline critical CSS and load the rest asynchronously.
- ✓
Scripts & third partiesmedium
3 script tag(s); files loaded from 2 other domain(s): fonts.googleapis.com, gstatic.com.
- ✗
Imagesmedium
10 image(s).
10 without width/height – can cause layout shift (CLS).
8 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.
- !
Cachinglow
Cache-Control: no-cache, 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 96%
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: CSP, nosniff, clickjacking protection.
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 75%
Usable on phones and by everyone – Google indexes the mobile version.
- ✓
Mobile viewportcritical
viewport: width=device-width, initial-scale=1
- ✓
Image alt textmedium
All 10 images have alt text.
- ✓
Form labelsmedium
All 2 form fields are labelled.
- ✗
Link nameslow
6 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.