SEO audit for noodlegrist.com
Noodle Grist
Health 65/100 (fair) · 7 pages crawled · generated 2026-08-26
Download Markdown report (feed to ChatGPT / Claude / Cursor)| Category | Score | Errors | Warnings | Notices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indexability | 70 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Sitemap | 70 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| Budget | 83 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Headings | 83 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| Performance | 96 | 0 | 1 | 8 |
| Agent Readiness | 100 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Cache | 100 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Content | 100 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Images | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Links | 100 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Security | 100 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| Titles | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| URL | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Warnings (5 rules)
warning Noindex page receives internal links (crawl-budget waste)
Rule budget.noindex_linked · Budget · 4 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/ — this noindex page has 7 internal inlink(s) — Googlebot follows them, fetches the page, then drops it unindexed, spending crawl budget for no indexing benefit (and the links leak equity). Remove/redirect the links, or drop the noindex if the page should be indexed. Linked from: https://noodlegrist.com/, https://noodlegrist.com/tags/blog/, https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/.
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — this noindex page has 4 internal inlink(s) — Googlebot follows them, fetches the page, then drops it unindexed, spending crawl budget for no indexing benefit (and the links leak equity). Remove/redirect the links, or drop the noindex if the page should be indexed. Linked from: https://noodlegrist.com/, https://noodlegrist.com/tags/blog/, https://noodlegrist.com/posts/.
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/blog/ — this noindex page has 1 internal inlink(s) — Googlebot follows them, fetches the page, then drops it unindexed, spending crawl budget for no indexing benefit (and the links leak equity). Remove/redirect the links, or drop the noindex if the page should be indexed. Linked from: https://noodlegrist.com/tags/.
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/philosophy/ — this noindex page has 1 internal inlink(s) — Googlebot follows them, fetches the page, then drops it unindexed, spending crawl budget for no indexing benefit (and the links leak equity). Remove/redirect the links, or drop the noindex if the page should be indexed. Linked from: https://noodlegrist.com/tags/.
warning Missing <h1>
Rule h1.missing · Headings · 4 occurrence(s)
warning Hero/LCP image is lazy-loaded (loading=lazy delays LCP)
Rule images.no_lazy_lcp_candidate · Performance · 1 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — the likely hero/LCP image (wwe_raw_2016-04-04.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 noindex + nofollow (blocks link equity flow)
Rule index.noindex_nofollow · Indexability · 7 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/ — meta/X-Robots: meta=noindex, nofollow
- https://noodlegrist.com/categories/ — meta/X-Robots: meta=noindex, nofollow
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/ — meta/X-Robots: meta=noindex, nofollow
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — meta/X-Robots: meta=noindex, nofollow
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/ — meta/X-Robots: meta=noindex, nofollow
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/blog/ — meta/X-Robots: meta=noindex, nofollow
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/philosophy/ — meta/X-Robots: meta=noindex, nofollow
warning Non-indexable URL listed in sitemap
Rule sitemap.non_indexable · Sitemap · 7 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/ — listed in sitemap but noindex
- https://noodlegrist.com/categories/ — listed in sitemap but noindex
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/ — listed in sitemap but noindex
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — listed in sitemap but noindex
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/ — listed in sitemap but noindex
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/blog/ — listed in sitemap but noindex
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/philosophy/ — listed in sitemap but noindex
Notices (11 rules)
notice Invalid ARIA role
Rule agent.aria_invalid_role · Agent Readiness · 3 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — role="doc-backlink" is not a valid ARIA role
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — role="doc-endnotes" is not a valid ARIA role
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — role="doc-noteref" is not a valid ARIA role
notice No llms.txt for AI agents
Rule agent.llms_txt_missing · Agent Readiness · 1 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/ — no llms.txt found at the site root — add one so AI agents get a curated site summary
notice Page served uncached (no-store/private or CDN bypass)
Rule cache.not_cacheable · Cache · 7 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/ — Cache-Control: max-age=600 · cloudflare: DYNAMIC
- https://noodlegrist.com/categories/ — Cache-Control: max-age=600 · cloudflare: DYNAMIC
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/ — Cache-Control: max-age=600 · cloudflare: DYNAMIC
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — Cache-Control: max-age=600 · cloudflare: DYNAMIC
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/ — Cache-Control: max-age=600 · cloudflare: DYNAMIC
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/blog/ — Cache-Control: max-age=600 · cloudflare: DYNAMIC
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/philosophy/ — Cache-Control: max-age=600 · cloudflare: DYNAMIC
notice Images without width/height (layout shift / CLS)
Rule images.missing_dimensions · Images · 1 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — 2 of 2 images without width/height
notice Internal link points to a noindex page
Rule links.to_noindex · Links · 13 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/ — https://noodlegrist.com/
- https://noodlegrist.com/ — https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/
- https://noodlegrist.com/categories/ — https://noodlegrist.com/
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/ — https://noodlegrist.com/
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/ — https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — https://noodlegrist.com/
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/ — https://noodlegrist.com/
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/ — https://noodlegrist.com/tags/blog/
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/ — https://noodlegrist.com/tags/philosophy/
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/blog/ — https://noodlegrist.com/
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/blog/ — https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/philosophy/ — https://noodlegrist.com/
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/philosophy/ — https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/
notice Legacy <meta name=keywords> tag present (Google ignores it)
Rule meta.keywords_present · Content · 6 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/categories/ — a <meta name="keywords"> tag is present — Google has ignored it since 2009; remove it to cut template debt
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/ — a <meta name="keywords"> tag is present — Google has ignored it since 2009; remove it to cut template debt
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — a <meta name="keywords"> tag is present — Google has ignored it since 2009; remove it to cut template debt
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/ — a <meta name="keywords"> tag is present — Google has ignored it since 2009; remove it to cut template debt
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/blog/ — a <meta name="keywords"> tag is present — Google has ignored it since 2009; remove it to cut template debt
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/philosophy/ — a <meta name="keywords"> tag is present — Google has ignored it since 2009; remove it to cut template debt
notice Legacy image format (jpg/png/gif) with no next-gen fallback
Rule perf.images_legacy_format · Performance · 1 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — 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 · 7 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/ — 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://noodlegrist.com/categories/ — 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://noodlegrist.com/posts/ — 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://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — 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://noodlegrist.com/tags/ — 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://noodlegrist.com/tags/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://noodlegrist.com/tags/philosophy/ — 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 · 7 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/ — HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options
- https://noodlegrist.com/categories/ — HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/ — X-Content-Type-Options, HSTS, CSP
- https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ — HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/ — HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/blog/ — CSP, X-Content-Type-Options, HSTS
- https://noodlegrist.com/tags/philosophy/ — HSTS, CSP, X-Content-Type-Options
notice Title is very short
Rule title.too_short · Titles · 1 occurrence(s)
- https://noodlegrist.com/ — 12 chars
notice Underscores in URL path (prefer hyphens)
Rule url.underscores · URL · 1 occurrence(s)
| URL | Status | Indexable | Words | In-links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://noodlegrist.com/ Noodle Grist |
200 | no | 16 | 7 |
| https://noodlegrist.com/posts/20260713t144333--everyday-hobbyhorsing__philosophy/ Everyday Hobbyhorsing | Noodle Grist |
200 | no | 776 | 4 |
| https://noodlegrist.com/tags/blog/ blog | Noodle Grist |
200 | no | 16 | 1 |
| https://noodlegrist.com/tags/philosophy/ philosophy | Noodle Grist |
200 | no | 16 | 1 |
| https://noodlegrist.com/categories/ Categories | Noodle Grist |
200 | no | 12 | 0 |
| https://noodlegrist.com/posts/ Posts | Noodle Grist |
200 | no | 16 | 0 |
| https://noodlegrist.com/tags/ Tags | Noodle Grist |
200 | no | 16 | 0 |
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