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SEO audit for bennysbytes.dev

Ben Vilnis - Engineering Leader

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Health 78/100 (good) · 15 pages crawled · generated 2026-08-26

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Ben Vilnis is an Engineering Manager specialising in SRE, observability, platform engineering, and production infrastructure.

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15
pages crawled
15
indexable pages
0
errors
9
warnings
116
notices
0
orphan pages
0
broken links
Category breakdown
CategoryScoreErrorsWarningsNotices
Titles 86 0 7 0
Agent Readiness 98 0 1 1
Performance 98 0 1 43
Cache 100 0 0 15
Content 100 0 0 12
Images 100 0 0 3
Links 100 0 0 11
Meta Description 100 0 0 1
Security 100 0 0 15
Structured Data 100 0 0 15
Findings

Warnings (3 rules)

warning Control has no accessible name

Rule agent.control_no_name · Agent Readiness · 1 occurrence(s)

warning Hero/LCP image is lazy-loaded (loading=lazy delays LCP)

Rule images.no_lazy_lcp_candidate · Performance · 1 occurrence(s)

  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2026-03-19-cover.jpg) has loading="lazy" — Google explicitly warns against lazy-loading the LCP image, because it delays the fetch until layout completes. Remove loading="lazy" from the first significant image and add fetchpriority="high" instead.

warning Title likely truncated in SERP (too wide)

Rule title.too_long · Titles · 7 occurrence(s)

Notices (13 rules)

notice No llms.txt for AI agents

Rule agent.llms_txt_missing · Agent Readiness · 1 occurrence(s)

notice Page served uncached (no-store/private or CDN bypass)

Rule cache.not_cacheable · Cache · 15 occurrence(s)

notice Main text is hard to read (low Flesch Reading Ease)

Rule content.readability_poor · Content · 12 occurrence(s)

  • https://bennysbytes.dev/ — this page reads as very difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 13, below 50) — long sentences and multi-syllable words make it hard to scan. Shorten sentences and prefer plainer words to widen your audience. Density can be legitimate for expert, technical or legal content, so judge it against who the page is for.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/ — this page reads as very difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 23, below 50) — long sentences and multi-syllable words make it hard to scan. Shorten sentences and prefer plainer words to widen your audience. Density can be legitimate for expert, technical or legal content, so judge it against who the page is for.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-02-23/ — this page reads as difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 40, below 50) — long sentences and multi-syllable words make it hard to scan. Shorten sentences and prefer plainer words to widen your audience. Density can be legitimate for expert, technical or legal content, so judge it against who the page is for.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-16/ — this page reads as very difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 29, below 50) — long sentences and multi-syllable words make it hard to scan. Shorten sentences and prefer plainer words to widen your audience. Density can be legitimate for expert, technical or legal content, so judge it against who the page is for.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-17/ — this page reads as very difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 18, below 50) — long sentences and multi-syllable words make it hard to scan. Shorten sentences and prefer plainer words to widen your audience. Density can be legitimate for expert, technical or legal content, so judge it against who the page is for.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-20/ — this page reads as very difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 24, below 50) — long sentences and multi-syllable words make it hard to scan. Shorten sentences and prefer plainer words to widen your audience. Density can be legitimate for expert, technical or legal content, so judge it against who the page is for.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-23/ — this page reads as very difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 18, below 50) — long sentences and multi-syllable words make it hard to scan. Shorten sentences and prefer plainer words to widen your audience. Density can be legitimate for expert, technical or legal content, so judge it against who the page is for.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-04-03/ — this page reads as very difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 14, below 50) — long sentences and multi-syllable words make it hard to scan. Shorten sentences and prefer plainer words to widen your audience. Density can be legitimate for expert, technical or legal content, so judge it against who the page is for.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-05-09/ — this page reads as very difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 27, below 50) — long sentences and multi-syllable words make it hard to scan. Shorten sentences and prefer plainer words to widen your audience. Density can be legitimate for expert, technical or legal content, so judge it against who the page is for.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-06-01/ — this page reads as difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 39, below 50) — long sentences and multi-syllable words make it hard to scan. Shorten sentences and prefer plainer words to widen your audience. Density can be legitimate for expert, technical or legal content, so judge it against who the page is for.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-07-21/ — this page reads as difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 40, below 50) — long sentences and multi-syllable words make it hard to scan. Shorten sentences and prefer plainer words to widen your audience. Density can be legitimate for expert, technical or legal content, so judge it against who the page is for.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2024-12-03/ — this page reads as difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 49, below 50) — long sentences and multi-syllable words make it hard to scan. Shorten sentences and prefer plainer words to widen your audience. Density can be legitimate for expert, technical or legal content, so judge it against who the page is for.

notice Image alt text is very long (possible keyword stuffing)

Rule images.alt_too_long · Images · 1 occurrence(s)

notice Likely hero image lacks fetchpriority=high

Rule images.hero_no_fetchpriority · Performance · 13 occurrence(s)

  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2022-10-06/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2022-10-06.jpg) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-02-22/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2023-02-22.jpg) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-02-23/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2023-02-23.jpg) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-16/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2023-03-16.jpg) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-17/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2023-03-17.jpg) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-20/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2023-03-20.png) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-23/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2023-03-23.jpg) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-04-03/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2023-04-03.jpg) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-05-09/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2023-05-09.jpg) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-06-01/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2023-06-01.jpg) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-07-21/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2023-07-21.jpg) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2024-12-03/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2024-12-03.jpg) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2026-03-19/ — the likely hero/LCP image (2026-03-19-cover.jpg) has no fetchpriority="high" — adding it tells the browser to fetch the hero earlier in the waterfall, reducing Largest Contentful Paint. This is a low-severity nudge; verify the flagged image is actually your LCP element.

notice Images without width/height (layout shift / CLS)

Rule images.missing_dimensions · Images · 2 occurrence(s)

notice Internal link has no anchor text / accessible name

Rule links.no_anchor_text · Links · 1 occurrence(s)

  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/ — 13 internal link(s) have no anchor text, aria-label, or image alt — they pass no keyword signal and are unusable to screen readers. Add descriptive text or an aria-label.

notice Page has only one internal inlink (fragile crawl path)

Rule links.single_inlink · Links · 10 occurrence(s)

  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2022-10-06/ — only one internal link points here — if that source changes, this page becomes an orphan. Add more contextual internal links to strengthen the crawl path.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-02-22/ — only one internal link points here — if that source changes, this page becomes an orphan. Add more contextual internal links to strengthen the crawl path.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-02-23/ — only one internal link points here — if that source changes, this page becomes an orphan. Add more contextual internal links to strengthen the crawl path.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-16/ — only one internal link points here — if that source changes, this page becomes an orphan. Add more contextual internal links to strengthen the crawl path.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-17/ — only one internal link points here — if that source changes, this page becomes an orphan. Add more contextual internal links to strengthen the crawl path.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-20/ — only one internal link points here — if that source changes, this page becomes an orphan. Add more contextual internal links to strengthen the crawl path.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-23/ — only one internal link points here — if that source changes, this page becomes an orphan. Add more contextual internal links to strengthen the crawl path.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-04-03/ — only one internal link points here — if that source changes, this page becomes an orphan. Add more contextual internal links to strengthen the crawl path.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-05-09/ — only one internal link points here — if that source changes, this page becomes an orphan. Add more contextual internal links to strengthen the crawl path.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-06-01/ — only one internal link points here — if that source changes, this page becomes an orphan. Add more contextual internal links to strengthen the crawl path.

notice Meta description too long

Rule meta_desc.too_long · Meta Description · 1 occurrence(s)

notice Legacy image format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen fallback

Rule perf.images_legacy_format · Performance · 15 occurrence(s)

  • https://bennysbytes.dev/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/ — 13 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2022-10-06/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-02-22/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-02-23/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-16/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-17/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-20/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-23/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-04-03/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-05-09/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-06-01/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-07-21/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2024-12-03/ — 1 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2026-03-19/ — 2 image(s) use a legacy format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen <picture> fallback. Serve WebP or AVIF (with a <picture> typed <source>) to cut image transfer weight and improve LCP.

notice No ETag header (no conditional GET for unchanged pages)

Rule perf.no_etag · Performance · 15 occurrence(s)

  • https://bennysbytes.dev/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2022-10-06/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-02-22/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-02-23/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-16/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-17/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-20/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-23/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-04-03/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-05-09/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-06-01/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-07-21/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2024-12-03/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.
  • https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2026-03-19/ — the response carries no ETag header — without an ETag (or Last-Modified) there is no cache-revalidation mechanism, so crawlers re-download the full body every visit. Emit an ETag (a content hash) to enable conditional If-None-Match requests.

notice Missing recommended security headers

Rule security.missing_headers · Security · 15 occurrence(s)

Pages (showing 15 of 15)
URLStatusIndexableWordsIn-links
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/
Benny’s Bytes — Engineering Leadership, SRE, and Platform Engineering
200 yes 484 15
https://bennysbytes.dev/
Ben Vilnis - Engineering Leader
200 yes 1281 14
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-07-21/
SRE Teams Are Product Teams — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 843 2
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2024-12-03/
From Bits to Teams: My First Year as an Engineering Manager — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 1947 2
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2026-03-19/
AI Isn't Your Superpower. Your Thinking Is. — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 1227 2
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2022-10-06/
Sometimes Bigger Isn't Better — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 1633 1
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-02-22/
Key Principles for Building Kick-ass Teams and Smashing Goals in 2023 — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 423 1
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-02-23/
Are Your Meetings Causing More Harm Than Good? — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 463 1
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-16/
Understanding Observability: Cutting Through the Hype and Misconceptions — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 1010 1
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-17/
Mastering Observability: Technical Practices and Key Factors for Success — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 830 1
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-20/
The Phoenix Project 10 Years Later: Timeless Lessons for the Modern Software Landscape — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 1447 1
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-03-23/
Embracing the AI Revolution with Caution — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 762 1
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-04-03/
Empowering Engineers: How Modern Companies Unleash Problem-Solvers and Outshine Traditional Factory Worker Mindsets — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 1491 1
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-05-09/
Alert Fatigue: Why Less is More — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 1707 1
https://bennysbytes.dev/blog/2023-06-01/
Turning Down the Noise: Unleashing the Power of SLO-Based Alerting for Superior User Experiences — Benny's Bytes
200 yes 1209 1

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