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SEO audit for david-simonson.com

David Simonson Art

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Health 69/100 (fair) · 7 pages crawled · generated 2026-08-26

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7
pages crawled
7
indexable pages
0
errors
8
warnings
68
notices
1
orphan pages
0
broken links
Category breakdown
CategoryScoreErrorsWarningsNotices
Content 74 0 6 7
Canonical 96 0 1 1
Links 96 0 1 0
Agent Readiness 100 0 0 5
Images 100 0 0 10
Meta Description 100 0 0 3
Performance 100 0 0 17
Security 100 0 0 14
Sitemap 100 0 0 4
Social 100 0 0 7
Findings

Warnings (3 rules)

warning Interior page canonicalizes to the homepage

Rule canonical.points_to_homepage · Canonical · 1 occurrence(s)

  • https://www.david-simonson.com/portfolio — this interior page canonicalizes to the homepage (https://www.david-simonson.com/) — Google will treat the homepage as authoritative and drop this page from search. Point the canonical at the page's own URL.

warning Thin content (low word count)

Rule content.thin · Content · 6 occurrence(s)

warning Orphan page (no internal inlinks)

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

Notices (16 rules)

notice Heading levels skip a level

Rule agent.heading_skip · Agent Readiness · 4 occurrence(s)

notice No llms.txt for AI agents

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

notice Canonical points to a different URL

Rule canonical.non_self · Canonical · 1 occurrence(s)

notice Low text-to-HTML ratio

Rule content.low_ratio · Content · 4 occurrence(s)

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

Rule content.readability_poor · Content · 3 occurrence(s)

  • https://www.david-simonson.com/about — this page reads as difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 42, 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://www.david-simonson.com/contact-lange — this page reads as difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 41, 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://www.david-simonson.com/lovelettertlondon — 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.

notice Image filename is generic/auto-generated (missed image-search signal)

Rule images.generic_filename · Images · 5 occurrence(s)

  • https://www.david-simonson.com/ — 3 image(s) use a generic/auto-generated filename (e.g. IMG_1234.jpg, photo1.png, a bare UUID). Google reads the filename as a signal of image content, so rename files descriptively (hyphen-separated words) before upload.
  • https://www.david-simonson.com/cornwall — 9 image(s) use a generic/auto-generated filename (e.g. IMG_1234.jpg, photo1.png, a bare UUID). Google reads the filename as a signal of image content, so rename files descriptively (hyphen-separated words) before upload.
  • https://www.david-simonson.com/lovelettertlondon — 29 image(s) use a generic/auto-generated filename (e.g. IMG_1234.jpg, photo1.png, a bare UUID). Google reads the filename as a signal of image content, so rename files descriptively (hyphen-separated words) before upload.
  • https://www.david-simonson.com/portfolio — 3 image(s) use a generic/auto-generated filename (e.g. IMG_1234.jpg, photo1.png, a bare UUID). Google reads the filename as a signal of image content, so rename files descriptively (hyphen-separated words) before upload.
  • https://www.david-simonson.com/westcoast2022v1 — 5 image(s) use a generic/auto-generated filename (e.g. IMG_1234.jpg, photo1.png, a bare UUID). Google reads the filename as a signal of image content, so rename files descriptively (hyphen-separated words) before upload.

notice Likely hero image lacks fetchpriority=high

Rule images.hero_no_fetchpriority · Performance · 5 occurrence(s)

  • https://www.david-simonson.com/ — the likely hero/LCP image (img_6731.jpeg) 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://www.david-simonson.com/cornwall — the likely hero/LCP image (img_4668.jpeg) 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://www.david-simonson.com/lovelettertlondon — the likely hero/LCP image (img_6731.jpeg) 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://www.david-simonson.com/portfolio — the likely hero/LCP image (img_6731.jpeg) 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://www.david-simonson.com/westcoast2022v1 — the likely hero/LCP image (img_6932.jpeg) 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 · 5 occurrence(s)

notice Meta description too long

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

notice Meta description too short

Rule meta_desc.too_short · Meta Description · 2 occurrence(s)

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

Rule perf.images_legacy_format · Performance · 5 occurrence(s)

  • https://www.david-simonson.com/ — 3 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://www.david-simonson.com/cornwall — 9 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://www.david-simonson.com/lovelettertlondon — 30 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://www.david-simonson.com/portfolio — 3 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://www.david-simonson.com/westcoast2022v1 — 6 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 Last-Modified header (no conditional GET for unchanged pages)

Rule perf.no_last_modified · Performance · 7 occurrence(s)

  • https://www.david-simonson.com/ — the response carries no Last-Modified header — Googlebot can't send an If-Modified-Since request, so it re-downloads the full page body on every crawl even when nothing changed. Emit Last-Modified (or an ETag) on stable pages to enable 304 Not Modified responses.
  • https://www.david-simonson.com/about — the response carries no Last-Modified header — Googlebot can't send an If-Modified-Since request, so it re-downloads the full page body on every crawl even when nothing changed. Emit Last-Modified (or an ETag) on stable pages to enable 304 Not Modified responses.
  • https://www.david-simonson.com/contact-lange — the response carries no Last-Modified header — Googlebot can't send an If-Modified-Since request, so it re-downloads the full page body on every crawl even when nothing changed. Emit Last-Modified (or an ETag) on stable pages to enable 304 Not Modified responses.
  • https://www.david-simonson.com/cornwall — the response carries no Last-Modified header — Googlebot can't send an If-Modified-Since request, so it re-downloads the full page body on every crawl even when nothing changed. Emit Last-Modified (or an ETag) on stable pages to enable 304 Not Modified responses.
  • https://www.david-simonson.com/lovelettertlondon — the response carries no Last-Modified header — Googlebot can't send an If-Modified-Since request, so it re-downloads the full page body on every crawl even when nothing changed. Emit Last-Modified (or an ETag) on stable pages to enable 304 Not Modified responses.
  • https://www.david-simonson.com/portfolio — the response carries no Last-Modified header — Googlebot can't send an If-Modified-Since request, so it re-downloads the full page body on every crawl even when nothing changed. Emit Last-Modified (or an ETag) on stable pages to enable 304 Not Modified responses.
  • https://www.david-simonson.com/westcoast2022v1 — the response carries no Last-Modified header — Googlebot can't send an If-Modified-Since request, so it re-downloads the full page body on every crawl even when nothing changed. Emit Last-Modified (or an ETag) on stable pages to enable 304 Not Modified responses.

notice target=_blank link without rel=noopener (tab-napping)

Rule security.unsafe_cross_origin_links · Security · 7 occurrence(s)

notice Indexable page not listed in sitemap

Rule sitemap.orphan_not_listed · Sitemap · 4 occurrence(s)

Pages (showing 7 of 7)
URLStatusIndexableWordsIn-links
https://www.david-simonson.com/
David Simonson Art
200 yes 37 7
https://www.david-simonson.com/about
About — David Simonson Art
200 yes 112 7
https://www.david-simonson.com/contact-lange
Contact — — David Simonson Art
200 yes 127 7
https://www.david-simonson.com/cornwall
Cornwall — David Simonson Art
200 yes 109 5
https://www.david-simonson.com/lovelettertlondon
A Love Letter to London — David Simonson Art
200 yes 216 5
https://www.david-simonson.com/westcoast2022v1
West Coast 2022# — David Simonson Art
200 yes 97 5
https://www.david-simonson.com/portfolio
David Simonson Art
200 yes 37 0

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