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SEO report for brightlocal.com DR 90

The latest Site Spider scan of brightlocal.com, with 12 scans on record. Each scan is at its own address, for example /domain/brightlocal-com/2026-10-16-1035.

DR is Ahrefs Domain Rating (0-100, backlink strength), used under its Domain Rating License.

Latest scan

Scanned 2026-10-16 10:35:42 UTC, finished 2026-10-16 10:59:33 UTC. Found with 42backlinks.com tool directory

Site: https://brightlocal.com/

Download SQLite databaseEvery page and asset from this scan, with the crawl events, in one file.

88/ 100Good

On October 16, 2026 the Site Spider crawled 1468 pages and 226 assets of brightlocal.com, starting from https://brightlocal.com/. It scored 88 out of 100, a good result. 13 of 26 checks found something to fix, led by title tags (419), meta descriptions (428), redirects (375); 4 checks passed. Most of the points went to title tags (−4), meta descriptions (−3.2), redirects (−1.4). 9 checks found something the score does not count, listed as noted. 11 checks were not run because the crawl fetched nothing for them. The list below shows each check's result, the fix plan, when present, explains what to do first, and the security review at the end of the page covers headers, transport, libraries and exposed files.

Security review: not available for this scan.

Pages crawled
1468
Assets fetched
226
Status
Completed
Checks with issues
13 of 26
CoverageComplete crawl

1,694 of 1,694 discovered URLs were fetched. The crawl reached everything it found. HTML only: nothing here ran JavaScript. 300 link destinations on other sites were checked, 6474 left unchecked.

  • Title tags419 issues
    419 of 1033 pages have title issues. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
    −4 points
  • Meta descriptions428 issues
    428 of 1033 pages have meta description issues. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
    −3.2 points
  • Headings2 issues
    2 of 1033 pages have heading issues. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
  • Broken links18 issues
    843 internal links point at 18 broken URLs.
    −0.3 points
  • Links to other sites24 issues
    24 destinations answered with an error, 79 could not be determined (timeouts, rate limits or refusals), 6474 were left unchecked by the per-scan cap, of 300 destinations checked.
    −0.9 points
  • Redirects375 issues
    391 redirecting URLs, 11 of them chained.
    −1.4 points
  • Non-200 responses21 issues
    472 URLs did not return a 2xx response. 409 of them are pages, 21 with an error status; the rest are assets or redirects.
    −0.2 points
  • Rate limitedOK
    The site did not rate limit the crawler.
  • Indexability7 issues
    7 of 1043 indexable pages have indexability warnings. 16 pages noindex by design.
    −0.1 points
  • Image alt text8 issues
    8 of 39122 image references have no alt attribute. 4643 use an empty alt (decorative), which is fine.
  • Heavy assets2 issues
    2 assets larger than 500 KB among 226 fetched assets.
    −1.2 points
  • Orphan pages58 issues
    58 pages have no internal links pointing at them.
    −0.2 points
  • Sitemap coverage184 issues
    12 sitemaps listing 1157 URLs: 1 crawled page missing, 125 listed URLs broken or redirecting, 58 reachable only via the sitemap.
    −1 points
  • Internal link counts176 noted
    Internal link counts for 500 pages; 176 worth a look.
  • Thin contentOK
    0 of 1033 pages have fewer than 200 words. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
  • Duplicate content2 issues
    1 group of pages with identical HTML.
  • URL format54 noted
    54 of 1468 page URLs are harder to read, share or cache than they need to be.
  • Canonicals26 noted
    26 of 1059 pages have a canonical worth checking.
  • Robots directives1,059 noted
    1059 pages carry a robots directive; 0 carry none.
  • Anchor text702 noted
    702 destinations are linked without useful anchor text, or with nofollow.
  • Title and heading structure272 noted
    272 of 1033 pages could use the title, heading and snippet space better. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
  • Image weight and alt length146 noted
    5 images over 100 KB; 141 with alt text over 100 characters.
  • Response anomalies26 noted
    26 URLs answered in a way worth looking at.
  • HTML and head validationNot checked
    Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.
  • hreflangNot checked
    Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.
  • Structured dataNot checked
    Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.
  • Near duplicatesNot checked
    Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.
  • Soft 404sOK
    None of 1059 pages answering 200 reads like an error page.
  • AccessibilityNot checked
    Not checked: the accessibility audit runs in the browser. Tick "Include JavaScript rendering checks" when you request a scan to run it.
  • Link positionsNot checked
    Not checked: this scan was crawled before link positions were recorded. Scan the site again to run it.
  • PaginationNot checked
    Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.
  • Headers and cookies1 noted
    4 cookies set by the site, 1 missing a protective flag; 14 response headers recorded across 1694 URLs.
  • Orphans in searchNot checked
    Not checked: import a Search Console Pages export on the scan page to find pages Google shows that the site does not link to.
  • Link ScoreOK
    Link Score (internal PageRank, 0-100) for 1059 pages; 926 hold almost none (10 or less).
  • JavaScript renderingNot checked
    Not checked: this scan did not render pages. Tick "Include JavaScript rendering checks" when you request a scan to compare the served HTML with what a browser builds.
  • PageSpeed InsightsNot checked
    Not checked yet: PageSpeed Insights runs on the top pages once the crawl has finished.
  • SpellingNot checked
    Not checked: this scan was crawled before this check existed. Scan the site again to run it.

What changed since the last scan

+1 points

brightlocal.com gained 1 point since the previous scan, moving from 87 to 88 out of 100. 550 findings changed. 64 URLs the earlier crawl reached were not reached this time. The crawl reached 3 more pages than last time, 1468 in total, so some of the change is a change in what was crawled. Across 12 scans on record it is down 12 points overall.

  • Pages: 2 new
  • Broken links: 1 new
  • Page status codes: 1 new
  • Internal links to the page: 440 changed
  • Crawl depth: 106 changed
  • 64 URLs from the earlier crawl were not reached this time
  1. 2026-09-19 03:28:29 UTC88/1001,462 pages
  2. 2026-09-22 04:15:20 UTC88/1001,462 pages
  3. 2026-09-25 04:50:48 UTC88/1001,462 pages
  4. 2026-09-28 05:23:32 UTC88/1001,464 pages
  5. 2026-10-01 06:04:33 UTC88/1001,464 pages
  6. 2026-10-04 08:06:22 UTC88/1001,464 pages
  7. 2026-10-07 08:46:14 UTC88/1001,464 pages
  8. 2026-10-10 09:17:46 UTC88/1001,464 pages
  9. 2026-10-13 09:52:53 UTC87/1001,465 pages
  10. 2026-10-16 10:35:42 UTC88/1001,468 pages

Where this site sits among all scanned sites

2284 sites, median 79%, average 78%

brightlocal.com scores 88%, higher than 84% of the 2284 scanned sites. See the full ranking.

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Green 90% and up (Excellent), lime 75 to 89 (Good), amber 50 to 74 (Needs work), red below 50 (Poor).

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Start page (centre)OKRedirectErrorOrphanLinked from most pagesOne inbound link or noneRings = clicks from the start page. Size = inbound links. Drag to pan, scroll to zoom, click a page to see only its links.

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DR is Ahrefs Domain Rating (0-100, backlink strength), used under its Domain Rating License.

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