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SEO audit for rootedsod.com
Rooted Sod: Landscaping Contractor in Battle Creek
Health 65/100 (fair) · 5 pages crawled · generated 2026-08-26
Download Markdown report (feed to ChatGPT / Claude / Cursor)Rooted Sod is a premier landscaping contractor in Battle Creek, specializing in sustainable lawn care and sod installation. Our services include family legacy expertise, sustainable practices, compreh…
5
pages crawled
5
indexable pages
0
errors
17
warnings
51
notices
0
orphan pages
0
broken links
Category breakdown
| Category | Score | Errors | Warnings | Notices |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Performance | 70 | 0 | 5 | 10 |
| Security | 70 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Content | 76 | 0 | 4 | 13 |
| Duplicate | 94 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Headings | 94 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Meta Description | 94 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Agent Readiness | 100 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Cache | 100 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Images | 100 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Social | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Structured Data | 100 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Titles | 100 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Findings
Warnings (6 rules)
warning Thin content (low word count)
Rule content.thin · Content · 4 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/ — 176 words
- https://rootedsod.com/gallery — 129 words
- https://rootedsod.com/privacy-policy — 98 words
- https://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today — 145 words
warning Homepage duplicated across protocol/host variants (no redirect)
Rule duplicate.protocol_host · Duplicate · 1 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/ — https://www.rootedsod.com/ serves the same homepage content with a 200 and no redirect — Google sees a duplicate. Pick one canonical host/scheme and 301-redirect the others.
warning Missing <h1>
Rule h1.missing · Headings · 1 occurrence(s)
warning Content-Type header doesn't match the actual content
Rule headers.content_type_mismatch · Security · 5 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/ — the Content-Type is "text/html" with no charset — the HTTP charset is authoritative and browsers otherwise guess the encoding, which can garble non-ASCII text (mojibake). Declare it explicitly: "text/html; charset=utf-8".
- https://rootedsod.com/gallery — the Content-Type is "text/html" with no charset — the HTTP charset is authoritative and browsers otherwise guess the encoding, which can garble non-ASCII text (mojibake). Declare it explicitly: "text/html; charset=utf-8".
- https://rootedsod.com/privacy-policy — the Content-Type is "text/html" with no charset — the HTTP charset is authoritative and browsers otherwise guess the encoding, which can garble non-ASCII text (mojibake). Declare it explicitly: "text/html; charset=utf-8".
- https://rootedsod.com/services/professional-services — the Content-Type is "text/html" with no charset — the HTTP charset is authoritative and browsers otherwise guess the encoding, which can garble non-ASCII text (mojibake). Declare it explicitly: "text/html; charset=utf-8".
- https://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today — the Content-Type is "text/html" with no charset — the HTTP charset is authoritative and browsers otherwise guess the encoding, which can garble non-ASCII text (mojibake). Declare it explicitly: "text/html; charset=utf-8".
warning Missing meta description
Rule meta_desc.missing · Meta Description · 1 occurrence(s)
warning Render-blocking script in <head> (no defer/async)
Rule perf.render_blocking · Performance · 5 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/ — 1 render-blocking <script> in <head> (add defer/async or use type=module)
- https://rootedsod.com/gallery — 1 render-blocking <script> in <head> (add defer/async or use type=module)
- https://rootedsod.com/privacy-policy — 1 render-blocking <script> in <head> (add defer/async or use type=module)
- https://rootedsod.com/services/professional-services — 1 render-blocking <script> in <head> (add defer/async or use type=module)
- https://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today — 1 render-blocking <script> in <head> (add defer/async or use type=module)
Notices (15 rules)
notice Heading levels skip a level
Rule agent.heading_skip · Agent Readiness · 5 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/ — h4 follows h1 — skips h2
- https://rootedsod.com/gallery — h4 follows h1 — skips h2
- https://rootedsod.com/privacy-policy — h4 follows h2 — skips h3
- https://rootedsod.com/services/professional-services — h4 follows h1 — skips h2
- https://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today — h4 follows h1 — skips h2
notice No llms.txt for AI agents
Rule agent.llms_txt_missing · Agent Readiness · 1 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.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 · 5 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/ — Cache-Control: (none) · cloudflare: DYNAMIC
- https://rootedsod.com/gallery — Cache-Control: (none) · cloudflare: DYNAMIC
- https://rootedsod.com/privacy-policy — Cache-Control: (none) · cloudflare: DYNAMIC
- https://rootedsod.com/services/professional-services — Cache-Control: (none) · cloudflare: DYNAMIC
- https://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today — Cache-Control: (none) · cloudflare: DYNAMIC
notice Low text-to-HTML ratio
Rule content.low_ratio · Content · 5 occurrence(s)
notice Main text is hard to read (low Flesch Reading Ease)
Rule content.readability_poor · Content · 4 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/ — this page reads as very difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 10, 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://rootedsod.com/gallery — this page reads as very difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 26, 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://rootedsod.com/services/professional-services — this page reads as difficult (Flesch Reading Ease 32, 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://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today — 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 Images without width/height (layout shift / CLS)
Rule images.missing_dimensions · Images · 5 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/ — 5 of 5 images without width/height
- https://rootedsod.com/gallery — 5 of 5 images without width/height
- https://rootedsod.com/privacy-policy — 2 of 2 images without width/height
- https://rootedsod.com/services/professional-services — 5 of 5 images without width/height
- https://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today — 5 of 5 images without width/height
notice Legacy <meta name=keywords> tag present (Google ignores it)
Rule meta.keywords_present · Content · 4 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/ — a <meta name="keywords"> tag is present — Google has ignored it since 2009; remove it to cut template debt
- https://rootedsod.com/gallery — a <meta name="keywords"> tag is present — Google has ignored it since 2009; remove it to cut template debt
- https://rootedsod.com/services/professional-services — a <meta name="keywords"> tag is present — Google has ignored it since 2009; remove it to cut template debt
- https://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today — a <meta name="keywords"> tag is present — Google has ignored it since 2009; remove it to cut template debt
notice Meta description too long
Rule meta_desc.too_long · Meta Description · 1 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/ — 249 chars
notice Missing Open Graph tags
Rule og.missing · Social · 1 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/privacy-policy — og:description
notice No ETag header (no conditional GET for unchanged pages)
Rule perf.no_etag · Performance · 5 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.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://rootedsod.com/gallery — 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://rootedsod.com/privacy-policy — 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://rootedsod.com/services/professional-services — 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://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today — 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 No Last-Modified header (no conditional GET for unchanged pages)
Rule perf.no_last_modified · Performance · 5 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.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://rootedsod.com/gallery — 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://rootedsod.com/privacy-policy — 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://rootedsod.com/services/professional-services — 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://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today — 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 FAQPage structured data (rich result removed May 2026)
Rule schema.faq_deprecated · Structured Data · 2 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/ — FAQPage structured data is present — Google removed FAQ rich results on 7 May 2026 (except for authoritative government/health sites). The markup is harmless but earns no SERP enhancement; remove it during template maintenance.
- https://rootedsod.com/services/professional-services — FAQPage structured data is present — Google removed FAQ rich results on 7 May 2026 (except for authoritative government/health sites). The markup is harmless but earns no SERP enhancement; remove it during template maintenance.
notice Missing recommended security headers
Rule security.missing_headers · Security · 5 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/ — HSTS, CSP
- https://rootedsod.com/gallery — HSTS, CSP
- https://rootedsod.com/privacy-policy — HSTS, CSP
- https://rootedsod.com/services/professional-services — HSTS, CSP
- https://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today — CSP, HSTS
notice Title tag is identical to the H1 (missed keyword variation)
Rule title.same_as_h1 · Titles · 1 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today — the <title> and the H1 are identical — differentiate them to cover more query variation
notice Title is very short
Rule title.too_short · Titles · 2 occurrence(s)
- https://rootedsod.com/gallery — 7 chars
- https://rootedsod.com/privacy-policy — 14 chars
Pages (showing 5 of 5)
| URL | Status | Indexable | Words | In-links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://rootedsod.com/ Rooted Sod: Landscaping Contractor in Battle Creek |
200 | yes | 176 | 5 |
| https://rootedsod.com/gallery Gallery |
200 | yes | 129 | 5 |
| https://rootedsod.com/privacy-policy Privacy policy |
200 | yes | 98 | 5 |
| https://rootedsod.com/services/professional-services Professional services |
200 | yes | 229 | 5 |
| https://rootedsod.com/services/start-your-project-today Start your project today |
200 | yes | 145 | 5 |
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