Audit complete · 20d ago

contractorcheckusa.com

↗ contractorcheckusa.com
Verdict
Caution

3 should-fix, 25 informational

  • Site typeunclear
  • Confidence0%
  • Discovered9 URLs
WARNING · contractorcheckusa.com/state/alabamaWARNING · contractorcheckusa.com/state/arizonaINFO · contractorcheckusa.com/INFO · contractorcheckusa.com/contractors-all-categoriesINFO · contractorcheckusa.com/aboutINFO · contractorcheckusa.com/contactINFO · contractorcheckusa.com/states
Pages0with blockers2with should-fix5with info0clean7 scanned
Pages
7
scanned
Blockers
0
findings
Should fix
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Info
25
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Clean
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Heuristic score over 7 sampled pages, not Google's classifier. How to read this ↓

Category grades

Integrity
A
6 issues
Discoverability
A
7 issues
Citation
A
15 issues
Data
A
0 issues

Focused resultspam/thin-content

thin content checker
  • infospam/thin-contenthttps://contractorcheckusa.com/contractors-all-categories has thin content (137 words).
  • infospam/thin-contenthttps://contractorcheckusa.com/contact has thin content (84 words).

We ran the full pSEO audit, not just this lens: it flagged 26 more issues across the other rules. See the complete report ↓

Severity adjustments7 rules softened by the unclear profile

These rules still ran and emitted findings: the site-type profile lowered their severity so the score reflects how the signal applies to this kind of site, not a one-size-fits-all penalty.

aeo/answer-firstaeo/citable-factsaeo/freshness-signalscontent/eeat-signalscontent/missing-authorspam/thin-contenttech/og-completeness

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Origin readinessNot ready
27 live fetches
Median TTFB
196ms
p95 TTFB
8892ms
5xx rate
0%
Cache assisted
0%
Crawl coverageDiscovered 9 · audited 7 · skipped 0

Origin looks unprepared for crawl load. A cache-cold dynamic origin at this rate will struggle under bot traffic and may leak to your database bill.

Fix: add an edge CDN with a sensible s-maxage, or an app-layer query cache (Redis / Next.js unstable_cache) between the route handler and the database.

Findings · 28

sampled 7 pages
Top fixes by impactseverity × pages affected
  1. 1
    content/citation-coveragewarningmoderate2 pages

    https://contractorcheckusa.com/state/alabama makes 30 quantified claims but cites 0 authoritative sources (25 named entities: contractor license lookup search, contractor records, state search filter, all statuses).

  2. 2
    aeo/llms-txtwarningmoderate1 pages

    No llms.txt found at https://contractorcheckusa.com/llms.txt. llms.txt is a draft standard with low adoption: absence isn't a defect, only a missed opportunity.

Should fix· 3

Severity warning · should fix before scaling
Warninglow confidencecontent/citation-coverage2 findings

https://contractorcheckusa.com/state/alabama makes 30 quantified claims but cites 0 authoritative sources (25 named entities: contractor license lookup search, contractor records, state search filter, all statuses).

↗ contractorcheckusa.com/state/alabama
Fix

Cite the primary sources behind your numbers: link the statute, standard, dataset, .gov/.edu page, or research that backs each statistic. AI Overviews and Google's helpful-content systems weight pages that ground claims in authoritative references. Note: this rule detects statistic+citation co-occurrence, not semantic correctness.

moderate↗ Read more↗ Google docs2 pages affected
Affected pages2
Warninglow confidenceaeo/llms-txt1 finding

No llms.txt found at https://contractorcheckusa.com/llms.txt. llms.txt is a draft standard with low adoption: absence isn't a defect, only a missed opportunity.

Fix

Create https://contractorcheckusa.com/llms.txt to guide AI engines toward your most authoritative, citable content. Start with an # H1 title, a blockquote summary, then ## sections listing your key pages as markdown links. See https://llmstxt.org for the emerging convention.

moderate↗ Read more↗ Google docs

Informational· 25

Severity info · tracked for trend analysis
Infolow confidencetech/og-completeness7 findings

https://contractorcheckusa.com/ is missing Open Graph tags: og:title, og:description, og:image, og:type, og:url.

↗ contractorcheckusa.com/
Fix

Add the missing meta tags inside <head>: <meta property="og:title" content="..."> <meta property="og:description" content="..."> <meta property="og:image" content="..."> <meta property="og:type" content="..."> <meta property="og:url" content="...">.

moderate↗ Read more↗ Google docs7 pages affected
Affected pages7
Infolow confidenceaeo/freshness-signals7 findings

https://contractorcheckusa.com/ has no dateModified signal (no JSON-LD dateModified, no modification meta tag, no visible "Last updated"). Evergreen pages may legitimately omit this: verify whether freshness signals matter for this page type.

↗ contractorcheckusa.com/
Fix

Add a freshness signal so AI engines know the page is current. Three recommended places: (1) dateModified in your JSON-LD schema, (2) a visible "Last updated: YYYY-MM-DD" line in the page content, (3) accurate <lastmod> in your sitemap. For pSEO templates, automate dateModified to update when your underlying data source changes.

moderate↗ Read more↗ Google docs7 pages affected
Affected pages7
Infolow confidenceaeo/citable-facts5 findings

https://contractorcheckusa.com/ has 0 unique citable facts. AI Overviews cite specific numbers and named references.

↗ contractorcheckusa.com/
Fix

Replace vague language ("varies", "several weeks", "affordable", "many options") with specific values a reader or AI engine would cite: exact prices, percentages, dates, timeframes, version numbers, named products, standards, or regulations that apply to this page. For pSEO templates, bind these values from your data source so each page gets entity-specific numbers instead of repeating the same template wording. Target: 8+ unique facts per page.

moderate↗ Read more↗ Google docs5 pages affected
Affected pages5
Infolow confidencespam/thin-content2 findings

https://contractorcheckusa.com/contractors-all-categories has thin content (137 words).

Fix

Add at least 163 more words of substantive content relevant to this page's specific topic.

moderate↗ Read more↗ Google docs
Infolow confidencecontent/missing-author1 finding

All 7 pages have no author signals (meta author, schema author, byline, or rel="author" link). This is a site-wide E-E-A-T risk. Author bylines matter most on blog/news content; technical docs and product pages legitimately omit them.

Fix

Add author attribution site-wide: <meta name="author" content="Name">, a visible byline, or author data in your JSON-LD schema.

quick↗ Read more↗ Google docs7 pages affected
Affected pages7
Infolow confidencecontent/eeat-signals1 finding

All 7 pages have fewer than 2 out of 4 E-E-A-T signal categories. Site-wide trust signals are missing.

Fix

Add trust signals site-wide: author info, publication dates, about page links, sources, or "last updated" markers.

moderate↗ Read more↗ Google docs7 pages affected
Affected pages7
Infoaeo/faq-coverage1 finding

https://contractorcheckusa.com/about reads as FAQ content (4 question-style headings (e.g. "What Is Contractor Check USA?", "What Information Can You Find?", "Where Does the Information Come From?")) but carries no machine-readable question/answer pairs.

↗ contractorcheckusa.com/about
Fix

Fix this in the visible page, not in markup: give each question its own heading and put the complete answer in the first paragraph directly beneath it, so an answer engine can lift a whole question/answer pair without reassembling it. Do NOT add FAQPage JSON-LD expecting a rich result: Google removed the FAQ rich result from Search on 2026-05-07 and deleted its documentation on 2026-06-15, and QAPage is documented as being only for pages where users can submit answers, not for a site's own FAQ. If a non-Google consumer of your schema needs the markup, generate it from the same per-record data that renders the headings: don't ship identical questions with only the entity name swapped.

moderate↗ Read more↗ Google docs1 page affected
Affected pages1
Infolow confidenceaeo/answer-first1 finding

https://contractorcheckusa.com/contact does not open with a direct, extractable answer: no specific numbers, dates, or dollar amounts; no named entities (agencies, laws, proper nouns) Marketing pages legitimately use narrative openers; this matters more for FAQ-style or directory pages.

↗ contractorcheckusa.com/contact
Fix

Restructure the template to open with entity-specific facts. Instead of boilerplate or a topic preamble, lead with a complete-answer sentence containing the key number, date, agency, or form name a reader (or AI Overview) would cite. Target: <100 words, at least one concrete number, at least one named entity.

moderate↗ Read more↗ Google docs1 page affected
Affected pages1

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  • Sample, not censusScored on 7 sampled pages from sitemap.xml. Template clusters across un-sampled pages may be missed.
  • Heuristic, not verdictRules inferred from public SpamBrain guidance, a structured conversation, not Google's classifier.
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