Scanned sites / brightlocal.com / 2026-10-04-0806
brightlocal.com scan from 10/4/2026, 8:06:22 AM
Scan 2026-10-04-0806
Scanned 10/4/2026, 8:06:22 AM, finished 10/4/2026, 8:45:14 AM. Found with 42backlinks.com tool directory
Site: https://brightlocal.com/
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On October 4, 2026 the Site Spider crawled 1464 pages and 224 assets of brightlocal.com, starting from https://brightlocal.com/. It scored 88 out of 100, a good result. 13 of 16 checks found something to fix, led by title tags (418), meta descriptions (427), redirects (376); 2 checks passed. Most of the points went to title tags (−4), meta descriptions (−3.2), redirects (−1.4). 1 check found something the score does not count, listed as noted. 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: Medium3 medium, 1 low and 1 info findings. See the security findings ↓
- Pages crawled
- 1464
- Assets fetched
- 224
- Status
- Completed
- Checks with issues
- 13 of 16
1,688 of 1,688 discovered URLs were fetched. The crawl reached everything it found. HTML only: nothing here ran JavaScript. 300 link destinations on other sites were checked, 6609 left unchecked.
- Title tags418 issues418 of 1030 pages have title issues. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.−4 points
- Meta descriptions427 issues427 of 1030 pages have meta description issues. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.−3.2 points
- Headings2 issues2 of 1030 pages have heading issues. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
- Broken links17 issues840 internal links point at 17 broken URLs.−0.3 points
- Links to other sites23 issues23 destinations answered with an error, 75 could not be determined (timeouts, rate limits or refusals), 6609 were left unchecked by the per-scan cap, of 300 destinations checked.−0.9 points
- Redirects376 issues391 redirecting URLs, 11 of them chained.−1.4 points
- Non-200 responses20 issues471 URLs did not return a 2xx response. 408 of them are pages, 20 with an error status; the rest are assets or redirects.−0.2 points
- Rate limitedOKThe site did not rate limit the crawler.
- Indexability7 issues7 of 1040 indexable pages have indexability warnings. 16 pages noindex by design.−0.1 points
- Image alt text8 issues8 of 38999 image references have no alt attribute. 4618 use an empty alt (decorative), which is fine.
- Heavy assets1 issue1 asset larger than 500 KB among 224 fetched assets.−0.6 points
- Orphan pages65 issues65 pages have no internal links pointing at them.−0.2 points
- Sitemap coverage191 issues12 sitemaps listing 1154 URLs: 1 crawled page missing, 125 listed URLs broken or redirecting, 65 reachable only via the sitemap.−1.1 points
- Internal link countsOKInternal link counts for 500 pages.
- Thin contentOK0 of 1030 pages have fewer than 200 words. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
- Duplicate content2 issues1 group of pages with identical HTML.
Where this scan sits among all scanned sites
2057 sites, median 80%, average 78%
brightlocal.com scores 88%, higher than 84% of the 2057 scanned sites. See the full ranking.
Green 90% and up (Excellent), lime 75 to 89 (Good), amber 50 to 74 (Needs work), red below 50 (Poor).
Internal link map
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Fix plan
Written by gpt-4o-mini from the scan findingsThe website has several issues to address, including broken links, redirect problems, and missing meta descriptions. Prioritize fixing these to enhance user experience and SEO performance.
- 1
Fix Broken Links
Why: Improves user experience and site authority by ensuring all links are functional.
How: Update or remove links pointing to 17 broken URLs across the site.
Checks: broken-links
- 2
Streamline Redirects
Why: Minimizes unnecessary complexity and improves site speed.
How: Consolidate 391 redirecting URLs and rectify 11 chains.
Checks: redirects
- 3
Resolve Non-200 Responses
Why: Enhances indexing and user access to all pages.
How: Resolve 408 URLs returning non-200 responses, especially the 20 with error statuses.
Checks: status-codes
- 4
Improve Title Tags
Why: Optimizes search visibility and click-through rates by ensuring proper title lengths and relevance.
How: Update 418 pages with title issues to meet best practices.
Checks: titles
- 5
Enhance Meta Descriptions
Why: Increases engagement and improves search rankings by ensuring meta descriptions are complete and compelling.
How: Write meta descriptions for 427 pages with issues, focusing on length and relevance.
Evidence: 74 pages have no meta description at all.
74 pages affected
Checks: meta-descriptions
- 6
Address Indexability Issues
Why: Ensures all important pages are indexable, improving overall SEO.
How: Correct indexability warnings on 7 pages, especially those with canonical issues.
Checks: indexability
Generated automatically; verify each change against your own site before relying on it.
Security review
Written by gpt-4o-mini from 16 checks over the crawlThe security review of brightlocal.com found several critical issues, primarily related to missing security headers and cookie flags that can expose the site to various risks. Implementing these recommendations will enhance the site's security posture significantly.
- 0 high
- 3 medium
- 1 low
- 1 info
- 1
Missing Content Security PolicyMedium
Why it matters: Without a CSP, scripts and resources can load from any source, increasing the risk of XSS attacks.
Fix: Add the header: `Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self';`.
Evidence: Content Security Policy
- 2
Lack of Clickjacking ProtectionMedium
Why it matters: Pages can be embedded in iframes, making users vulnerable to clickjacking attacks.
Fix: Include the header: `X-Frame-Options: DENY`.
Evidence: Clickjacking protection
- 3
Missing Secure Cookie FlagsMedium
Why it matters: Cookies lacking Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite flags can be exploited by attackers.
Fix: Set cookies with properties: `HttpOnly`, `Secure`, `SameSite=Lax`.
Evidence: Cookie flags
- 4
No Referrer Policy DefinedLow
Why it matters: Without this policy, sensitive URL information may be leaked to external sites.
Fix: Add the header: `Referrer-Policy: no-referrer`.
Evidence: Referrer policy
- 5
Missing Permissions PolicyInfo
Why it matters: Lack of this header allows injected scripts more access to browser features.
Fix: Add: `Permissions-Policy: camera=(), microphone=(), geolocation=()`.
Evidence: Permissions policy
What the checks found
- FoundContent Security PolicyMedium
None of the 1056 HTML pages send a Content-Security-Policy header or meta tag, so the browser has no restriction on where scripts, styles and frames may load from.
- https://www.brightlocal.com/ → no content-security-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/local-seo-tools/local-ai-visibility/ → no content-security-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/about-us/ → no content-security-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/about-us/how-we-compare/ → no content-security-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/contact-us/ → no content-security-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/what-is-local-seo/ → no content-security-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/small-businesses/ → no content-security-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/agencies/ → no content-security-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/platform/ → no content-security-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/citation-builder/ → no content-security-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/local-seo-services/ → no content-security-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/platform/api-solutions/ → no content-security-policy
- FoundClickjacking protectionMedium
No HTML page sends x-frame-options. Without X-Frame-Options (or a CSP frame-ancestors directive) the pages can be embedded in a frame on another site and overlaid with invisible controls.
- https://www.brightlocal.com/ → no x-frame-options
- https://www.brightlocal.com/local-seo-tools/local-ai-visibility/ → no x-frame-options
- https://www.brightlocal.com/about-us/ → no x-frame-options
- https://www.brightlocal.com/about-us/how-we-compare/ → no x-frame-options
- https://www.brightlocal.com/contact-us/ → no x-frame-options
- https://www.brightlocal.com/what-is-local-seo/ → no x-frame-options
- https://www.brightlocal.com/small-businesses/ → no x-frame-options
- https://www.brightlocal.com/agencies/ → no x-frame-options
- https://www.brightlocal.com/platform/ → no x-frame-options
- https://www.brightlocal.com/citation-builder/ → no x-frame-options
- https://www.brightlocal.com/local-seo-services/ → no x-frame-options
- https://www.brightlocal.com/platform/api-solutions/ → no x-frame-options
- FoundReferrer policyLow
No HTML page sends referrer-policy. Without a Referrer-Policy the full page address, including any query string, is sent to every site a visitor clicks through to.
- https://www.brightlocal.com/ → no referrer-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/local-seo-tools/local-ai-visibility/ → no referrer-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/about-us/ → no referrer-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/about-us/how-we-compare/ → no referrer-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/contact-us/ → no referrer-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/what-is-local-seo/ → no referrer-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/small-businesses/ → no referrer-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/agencies/ → no referrer-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/platform/ → no referrer-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/citation-builder/ → no referrer-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/local-seo-services/ → no referrer-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/platform/api-solutions/ → no referrer-policy
- FoundPermissions policyInfo
No HTML page sends permissions-policy. A Permissions-Policy header turns off browser features the site does not use (camera, microphone, geolocation), limiting what an injected script could do.
- https://www.brightlocal.com/ → no permissions-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/local-seo-tools/local-ai-visibility/ → no permissions-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/about-us/ → no permissions-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/about-us/how-we-compare/ → no permissions-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/contact-us/ → no permissions-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/what-is-local-seo/ → no permissions-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/small-businesses/ → no permissions-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/agencies/ → no permissions-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/platform/ → no permissions-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/citation-builder/ → no permissions-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/local-seo-services/ → no permissions-policy
- https://www.brightlocal.com/platform/api-solutions/ → no permissions-policy
- FoundCookie flagsMedium
1218 of 1221 cookies are missing protective flags. Without HttpOnly a script can read the cookie; without Secure it travels over plain HTTP; without SameSite it is sent on cross-site requests.
- 04 Oct 2026 08:37:11 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 04 Oct 2026 08:37:12 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/robots.txt) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- unique_id (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/sitemap.xml) lacks SameSite
- 04 Oct 2026 08:37:15 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/local-seo-tools/local-ai-visibility/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 04 Oct 2026 08:37:16 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/about-us/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 04 Oct 2026 08:37:17 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/about-us/how-we-compare/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 04 Oct 2026 08:37:18 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/what-is-local-seo/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 04 Oct 2026 08:37:19 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/agencies/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 04 Oct 2026 08:37:20 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/citation-builder/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 04 Oct 2026 08:37:21 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/local-seo-services/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 04 Oct 2026 08:37:22 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/case-studies/staylisted/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 04 Oct 2026 08:37:23 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/case-studies/luca-tagliaferro-consultancy/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- NoteThird-party scripts
Scripts run from 3 other domains without Subresource Integrity, so a compromise of any of them changes what runs on this site. (Tag managers and analytics rarely support SRI; a Content-Security-Policy that names these hosts is the usual control.)
- consent.cookiebot.com (40 script tags)
- js.hsforms.net (4 script tags)
- assets.calendly.com (2 script tags)
- NoteSensitive paths in robots.txt
robots.txt lists 1 path that look private. robots.txt is public and does not restrict access, so it doubles as a map for anyone probing the site; those paths need real access control.
- Disallow: /wp/wp-admin/
9 checks passed
- OKHTTPS
All 1056 crawled pages were served over HTTPS.
- OKHTTP Strict Transport Security
strict-transport-security is set on all 1056 HTML pages.
- OKMIME sniffing protection
x-content-type-options is set on all 1056 HTML pages.
- OKSoftware version disclosure
The Server header names a product without a version, and there is no X-Powered-By header.
- OKMixed content
No HTTPS page loads a script, stylesheet, font or image over plain HTTP.
- OKForms over HTTPS
1 form found, all on HTTPS pages posting to HTTPS addresses.
- OKVulnerable JavaScript libraries
1 library version recognised, none with known vulnerabilities.
- OKKeys and secrets in page code
No API keys, tokens or private keys were found in the sampled HTML and scripts.
- OKExposed files and listings
None of the crawled URLs is a configuration file, backup, dump, repository folder or directory listing.
A passive review of what the crawl recorded: response headers, page and script contents and the URLs it found. It does not probe the site, test TLS settings or look for files that were not linked. Generated automatically; verify each finding against your own site before acting on it.
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