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brightlocal.com scan from 2026-10-22 11:10:08 UTC DR 90
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Scan 2026-10-22-1110
Scanned 2026-10-22 11:10:08 UTC, finished 2026-10-22 11:18:28 UTC. Found with 42backlinks.com tool directory
Site: https://brightlocal.com/
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On October 22, 2026 the Site Spider crawled 1475 pages and 232 assets of brightlocal.com, starting from https://brightlocal.com/. It scored 87 out of 100, a good result. 13 of 33 checks found something to fix, led by title tags (423), meta descriptions (428), redirects (372); 5 checks passed. Most of the points went to title tags (−4), meta descriptions (−3.2), redirects (−1.4). 15 checks found something the score does not count, listed as noted. 4 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: Medium3 medium, 1 low and 1 info findings. See the security findings ↓
- Pages crawled
- 1475
- Assets fetched
- 232
- Status
- Completed
- Checks with issues
- 13 of 33
1,707 of 1,707 discovered URLs were fetched. The crawl reached everything it found. HTML only: nothing here ran JavaScript. 300 link destinations on other sites were checked, 6482 left unchecked.
- Title tags423 issues423 of 1040 pages have title issues. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.−4 points
- Meta descriptions428 issues428 of 1040 pages have meta description issues. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.−3.2 points
- Headings2 issues2 of 1040 pages have heading issues. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
- Broken links18 issues276 internal links point at 18 broken URLs.−0.3 points
- Links to other sites26 issues26 destinations answered with an error, 80 could not be determined (timeouts, rate limits or refusals), 6482 were left unchecked by the per-scan cap, of 300 destinations checked.−1 points
- Redirects372 issues391 redirecting URLs, 11 of them chained.−1.4 points
- Non-200 responses21 issues472 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 limitedOKThe site did not rate limit the crawler.
- Indexability7 issues7 of 1050 indexable pages have indexability warnings. 16 pages noindex by design.−0.1 points
- Image alt text8 issues8 of 39402 image references have no alt attribute. 4720 use an empty alt (decorative), which is fine.
- Heavy assets2 issues2 assets larger than 500 KB among 232 fetched assets.−1.2 points
- Orphan pages58 issues58 pages have no internal links pointing at them.−0.2 points
- Sitemap coverage184 issues12 sitemaps listing 1164 URLs: 1 crawled page missing, 125 listed URLs broken or redirecting, 58 reachable only via the sitemap.−1 points
- Internal link counts168 notedInternal link counts for 500 pages; 168 worth a look.
- Thin contentOK0 of 1040 pages have fewer than 200 words. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
- Duplicate content2 issues1 group of pages with identical HTML.
- URL format54 noted54 of 1475 page URLs are harder to read, share or cache than they need to be.
- Canonicals26 noted26 of 1066 pages have a canonical worth checking.
- Robots directives1,066 noted1066 pages carry a robots directive; 0 carry none.
- Anchor text694 noted694 destinations are linked without useful anchor text, or with nofollow.
- Title and heading structure277 noted277 of 1040 pages could use the title, heading and snippet space better. 26 noindex or canonicalized pages excluded.
- Image weight and alt length153 noted5 images over 100 KB; 148 with alt text over 100 characters.
- Response anomalies25 noted25 URLs answered in a way worth looking at.
- HTML and head validation1,065 noted1065 of 1066 pages have HTML problems: 1065 with head tags outside <head>, 0 over 2 MB.
- hreflangOKNo page declares hreflang.
- Structured data13 noted1066 of 1040 indexable pages carry structured data: Organization (1066), BreadcrumbList (1065), ListItem (1065), WebSite (1065), ImageObject (978). 13 pages with errors a rich result would fail on.
- Near duplicates2 noted2 pages in 1 group read almost the same as another page (95% alike or more).
- Soft 404sOKNone of 1066 pages answering 200 reads like an error page.
- AccessibilityNot checkedNot checked: the accessibility audit runs in the browser. Tick "Include JavaScript rendering checks" when you request a scan to run it.
- Link positions2 noted2 of 982 linked pages are linked only from the template, never from another page's content.
- Pagination48 noted48 pages in pagination sequences; 48 with problems.
- Headers and cookies1 noted4 cookies set by the site, 1 missing a protective flag; 14 response headers recorded across 1707 URLs.
- Orphans in searchNot checkedNot checked: import a Search Console Pages export on the scan page to find pages Google shows that the site does not link to.
- Link ScoreOKLink Score (internal PageRank, 0-100) for 1066 pages; 929 hold almost none (10 or less).
- JavaScript renderingNot checkedNot 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 checkedNot checked yet: PageSpeed Insights runs on the top pages once the crawl has finished.
- Spelling588 noted588 words an English dictionary does not know, on 725 pages. Product names and jargon will appear here too.
Where this scan sits among all scanned sites
2305 sites, median 79%, average 78%
brightlocal.com scores 87%, higher than 81% of the 2305 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).
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Fix plan
Written by gpt-4o-mini from the scan findingsThe website has several SEO issues to address, particularly with broken links, redirects, and title/meta description problems. Prioritizing these fixes can significantly enhance visibility and user experience.
- 1
Fix Broken Links
Why: 276 internal links point to broken URLs, affecting user experience and SEO.
How: Identify and update or remove the broken links. Ensure links lead to live pages.
Checks: broken-links
- 2
Resolve Redirects
Why: 391 URLs redirect, including 11 chained redirects, which can slow down site performance.
How: Eliminate unnecessary redirects, particularly chained ones. Ensure URLs resolve directly to the final destination.
Checks: redirects
- 3
Optimize Title Tags
Why: 423 pages have title issues, which can hurt click-through rates from search results.
How: Review and rewrite overly long or missing title tags, ensuring they are concise and relevant.
Checks: titles
- 4
Improve Meta Descriptions
Why: 428 pages have meta description issues, potentially leading to unclear messaging in search results.
How: Draft and implement unique, compelling meta descriptions for affected pages.
Checks: meta-descriptions
- 5
Address Duplicate Content
Why: Presence of duplicate content can confuse search engines and dilute page authority.
How: Identify and consolidate the duplicate pages or update them to make content unique.
Checks: duplicate-content
- 6
Shrink Heavy Assets
Why: Large assets can slow down the website, affecting user experience and SEO rankings.
How: Compress and optimize large CSS, JS, and image files identified as heavy assets.
Checks: heavy-assets
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 website lacks several important security headers that help protect against vulnerabilities such as clickjacking, content injection, and cookie theft. Additionally, many cookies are missing protective flags, increasing the risk of exposure. Immediate action should be taken to implement these security measures.
- 0 high
- 3 medium
- 1 low
- 1 info
- 1
Missing Content Security PolicyMedium
Why it matters: The absence of a Content Security Policy allows scripts, styles, and frames to load from any source, increasing XSS vulnerability.
Fix: Implement a Content Security Policy header like `Content-Security-Policy: default-src 'self';`.
Evidence: Content Security Policy
- 2
Missing X-Frame-Options HeaderMedium
Why it matters: Without this header, the site is vulnerable to clickjacking attacks, allowing others to embed your content with malicious overlays.
Fix: Add the header `X-Frame-Options: DENY` or use CSP with a frame-ancestors directive.
Evidence: Clickjacking protection
- 3
Missing Secure Cookie FlagsMedium
Why it matters: Many cookies lack Secure, HttpOnly, and SameSite flags, increasing the risk of cookie theft and misuse.
Fix: Configure cookies to use `Secure`, `HttpOnly`, and `SameSite=Lax` flags.
Evidence: Cookie flags
- 4
Missing Referrer PolicyLow
Why it matters: Not specifying a referrer policy can unintentionally expose sensitive URL data when users navigate away.
Fix: Implement the header `Referrer-Policy: no-referrer`.
Evidence: Referrer policy
- 5
Missing Permissions PolicyInfo
Why it matters: Absence of a Permissions-Policy can allow unnecessary access to browser features, increasing the risk of exploitation.
Fix: Add the header `Permissions-Policy: interest-cohort=()`, or disable other features as needed.
Evidence: Permissions policy
What the checks found
- FoundContent Security PolicyMedium
None of the 1066 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
386 of 389 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.
- 22 Oct 2026 11:40:25 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 22 Oct 2026 11:40:26 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
- 22 Oct 2026 11:40:44 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/local-seo-tools/local-ai-visibility/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 22 Oct 2026 11:40:45 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/about-us/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 22 Oct 2026 11:40:46 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/about-us/how-we-compare/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 22 Oct 2026 11:40:47 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/what-is-local-seo/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 22 Oct 2026 11:40:48 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/small-businesses/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 22 Oct 2026 11:40:49 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/platform/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 22 Oct 2026 11:40:50 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/citation-builder/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 22 Oct 2026 11:40:51 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/platform/api-solutions/) lacks Secure, HttpOnly, SameSite
- 22 Oct 2026 11:40:52 GMT (set by https://www.brightlocal.com/case-studies/staylisted/) 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 1066 crawled pages were served over HTTPS.
- OKHTTP Strict Transport Security
strict-transport-security is set on all 1066 HTML pages.
- OKMIME sniffing protection
x-content-type-options is set on all 1066 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.
Sites scoring near brightlocal.com
Their neighbours in the SEO rank table, which orders every scanned site by health score.
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DR is Ahrefs Domain Rating (0-100, backlink strength), used under its Domain Rating License.
This report was produced by the DIY SEO Hub Site Spider crawling brightlocal.com from its pages as published, the way a search engine does. It shows summary figures only.
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