brightlocal.com scan from 10/7/2026, 8:46:14 AM

On October 7, 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 23 checks found something to fix, led by title tags (418), meta descriptions (427), redirects (374); 2 checks passed. Most of the points went to title tags (−4), meta descriptions (−3.2), redirects (−1.4). 8 checks 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: not available for this scan.

Pages crawled

1464

Assets fetched

224

Status

Completed

Checks with issues

13 of 23

• Title tags418 issues
  418 of 1030 pages have title issues. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
  −4 points
• Meta descriptions427 issues
  427 of 1030 pages have meta description issues. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
  −3.2 points
• Headings2 issues
  2 of 1030 pages have heading issues. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
• Broken links17 issues
  840 internal links point at 17 broken URLs.
  −0.3 points
• Links to other sites23 issues
  23 destinations answered with an error, 75 could not be determined (timeouts, rate limits or refusals), 6451 were left unchecked by the per-scan cap, of 300 destinations checked.
  −0.9 points
• Redirects374 issues
  391 redirecting URLs, 11 of them chained.
  −1.4 points
• Non-200 responses20 issues
  471 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 limitedOK
  The site did not rate limit the crawler.
• Indexability7 issues
  7 of 1040 indexable pages have indexability warnings. 16 pages noindex by design.
  −0.1 points
• Image alt text8 issues
  8 of 39005 image references have no alt attribute. 4618 use an empty alt (decorative), which is fine.
• Heavy assets1 issue
  1 asset larger than 500 KB among 224 fetched assets.
  −0.6 points
• Orphan pages57 issues
  57 pages have no internal links pointing at them.
  −0.2 points
• Sitemap coverage183 issues
  12 sitemaps listing 1154 URLs: 1 crawled page missing, 125 listed URLs broken or redirecting, 57 reachable only via the sitemap.
  −1 points
• Internal link counts179 noted
  Internal link counts for 500 pages; 179 worth a look.
• Thin contentOK
  0 of 1030 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 1464 page URLs are harder to read, share or cache than they need to be.
• Canonicals26 noted
  26 of 1056 pages have a canonical worth checking.
• Robots directives1,056 noted
  1056 pages carry a robots directive; 0 carry none.
• Anchor text705 noted
  705 destinations are linked without useful anchor text, or with nofollow.
• Title and heading structure271 noted
  271 of 1030 pages could use the title, heading and snippet space better. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
• Image weight and alt length147 noted
  5 images over 100 KB; 142 with alt text over 100 characters.
• Response anomalies26 noted
  26 URLs answered in a way worth looking at.

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