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Usable by AI agents, with gaps

Speed: Fail (Google's lab run of this page)Core Web Vitals, Google

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These hold your letter down the most
  1. Fail·Performance

    The page does not jump around while it loads

    Cumulative Layout Shift (0.592)

    What to do Stop content from moving as images and fonts load.

    Your web team · about a daySee the check

  2. Fail·Act

    Your site offers tools to AI assistants

    Your home page offers no tools to AI assistants.

    What to do Expose the main action on your site, such as booking or contacting you, as a WebMCP tool.

    Your web team · about a daySee the check

  3. Partial·Performance

    The main content shows up quickly

    First Contentful Paint (2.0 s) and Speed Index (7.5 s). Lab test on a phone: too few real visitors to measure it.

    What to do Make the first screen load faster on phones, starting with its biggest image.

    Your web team · a week or moreSee the check

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100

Find

Can AI agents and search engines reach and list your pages?

25% of your grade · 9 of 9 goals pass

100

Understand

Can they tell who you are and what you offer?

25% of your grade · 7 of 7 goals pass

82

Act

Can they take the next step for a customer?

25% of your grade · 6 of 9 goals pass

  • Your site offers tools to AI assistantsMust haveImportantFail

    Your home page offers no tools to AI assistants. WebMCP lets an assistant book or reserve through a site's own code instead of guessing its way around the screen.

    While it fails, your letter stays at B or lower.

    • PageSpeed's "WebMCP tools registered" audit lists no tool: https://www.evochillcrest.com/

    What to do Expose the main action on your site, such as booking or contacting you, as a WebMCP tool.

    For your web team: Call document.modelContext.registerTool({ name, description, inputSchema, execute }) as the home page loads, or add toolname and tooldescription attributes to the form. A name is 1 to 128 letters, digits, _, - or .

    Your web team · about a day · Important

    WebMCP for developers, ChromeReport an issue with this check

  • Text is readableImportantPartial

    Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio. WCAG requires text to contrast with its background by at least 4.5 to 1, and the axe rule color-contrast checks for it.

    • Fix any of the following: Element has insufficient color contrast of 2.83 (foreground color: #f27177, background color: #ffffff, font size: 18.8pt (25.12px), font weight: normal). Expected contrast ratio of 3:1: <h2 class="mb-3 mb-lg-4 text-primary text-xl font-stylized text-uppercase letter-spac…">: https://www.evochillcrest.com/

    What to do Darken pale text and underline the links inside paragraphs.

    For your web team: Reach a contrast ratio of 4.5 to 1 for normal text, mark links in text with more than color, and leave user-scalable and maximum-scale out of the viewport tag.

    Your web team · about a day · Important

    Rule color-contrast: Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds, Deque axeReport an issue with this check

  • Forms are labelledCriticalPass

    All 2 audits in this goal pass. WCAG requires every form field to have a label or instructions, and the axe rule label checks for it.

    Rule label: Form elements must have labels, Deque axeReport an issue with this check

  • Assistants can read your page's controlsCriticalPass

    Accessibility tree is well-formed (All audits passed) Agents review the accessibility tree to find what they can click or fill in, and missing labels can block them.

    Accessibility for agents, ChromeReport an issue with this check

  • Custom controls announce what they areImportantPass

    Elements with role="dialog" or role="alertdialog" have accessible names. WCAG, the web accessibility standard most laws point to, requires every control to expose its name and role to assistive technology and software.

    Accessibility for agents, ChromeReport an issue with this check

  • Extra labels on controls are used correctlyImportantPass

    All 13 audits in this goal pass. Wrong ARIA tells an assistant a control is something it is not. WAI-ARIA defines the roles and attributes that are valid, and the axe rules check them.

    Rule aria-roles: ARIA roles used must conform to valid values, Deque axeReport an issue with this check

  • Visitors can move around the pageImportantPass

    All 3 audits in this goal pass. WCAG, the web accessibility standard most laws point to, requires every function of a page to work from a keyboard.

    Accessibility for agents, ChromeReport an issue with this check

  • Buttons and links are big enough to tapImportantPass

    All 2 audits in this goal pass. web.dev recommends tap targets of around 48 pixels, and WCAG sets a minimum of 24 by 24 pixels.

    Accessible tap targets, GoogleReport an issue with this check

73

Performance

Is it fast for the person who clicks through?

Speed comes from real visitors of your page over the last 28 days when Google has their numbers, and from a test on a phone when it does not.

25% of your grade · 5 of 10 goals pass

  • The page does not jump around while it loadsImportantFail

    Cumulative Layout Shift (0.592) CLS measures how much the page jumps while it loads, which makes people tap the wrong thing. web.dev names it one of three Core Web Vitals, and 0.1 or less is good.

    • Cumulative Layout Shift (0.592): https://www.evochillcrest.com/
    • Layout shift culprits: https://www.evochillcrest.com/
    • Avoid large layout shifts (15 layout shifts found): <div id="onetrust-banner-sdk" class="otFlat bottom ot-wo-title vertical-align-content ot-buttons-fw" tabindex="0" aria-label="You must interact with the banner to dismiss it." style="bottom: 0px;">: https://www.evochillcrest.com/

    What to do Stop content from moving as images and fonts load.

    For your web team: Set width and height on images and embeds, reserve space for late content, and use font-display with a matching fallback font.

    Your web team · about a day · Important

    Web Vitals, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • The main content shows up quicklyImportantPartial

    First Contentful Paint (2.0 s) and Speed Index (7.5 s). Lab test on a phone: too few real visitors to measure it. LCP is how long the main picture or text takes to appear, and visitors leave slow pages. web.dev says 2.5 seconds or less is good, one of Google's three Core Web Vitals.

    • First Contentful Paint (2.0 s): https://www.evochillcrest.com/
    • Speed Index (7.5 s): https://www.evochillcrest.com/
    • LCP breakdown: https://www.evochillcrest.com/

    What to do Make the first screen load faster on phones, starting with its biggest image.

    For your web team: Serve the largest element early: preload it, avoid render-blocking scripts and styles, and cut server response time. PageSpeed lists what holds it back.

    Your web team · a week or more · Important

    Web Vitals, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Images are the right sizeImportantPartial

    Improve image delivery (Est savings of 59 KiB) and Image elements do not have explicit width and height. Serving images larger than the version rendered on screen results in wasted bytes and slows page load.

    • Improve image delivery (Est savings of 59 KiB): <img src="https://resource.rentcafe.com/image/upload/x_0,y_0,w_1155,h_1732,c_crop/q_…" class="h-100 w-100 object-fit-cover img-fluid" alt="Two men lying on the grass with a dog at EVOC Apartments, San Diego, Calif…" width="1155" height="1155" loading="lazy">, from rentcafe.com: https://resource.rentcafe.com/image/upload/x_0,y_0,w_1155,h_1732,c_crop/q_auto,f_auto,c_fill,w_576,ar_1,g_auto/s3/2/305489/hgfenton_evoc_stocksy_txp2f92770biza300_medium_587206.jpg
    • Image elements do not have explicit width and height: <img src="https://resource.rentcafe.com/image/upload/q_auto,f_auto,c_lfill,w_576,ar_…" class="img-fluid" alt="" loading="lazy">, from rentcafe.com: https://resource.rentcafe.com/image/upload/q_auto,f_auto,c_lfill,w_576,ar_2.098,g_auto/s3/themes/spritz/images/secondary-dots.png

    What to do Resize and compress your images before they go on the page.

    For your web team: Serve several sizes with srcset and sizes, use a modern format such as WebP or AVIF, and keep each image's width and height in the proportion it is shown.

    Your web team · about a day · Important

    Properly size images, ChromeReport an issue with this check

  • The page does not weigh muchImportantPartial

    Reduce unused JavaScript (Est savings of 266 KiB), Reduce unused CSS (Est savings of 73 KiB), and Legacy JavaScript (Est savings of 9 KiB). Large network payloads are highly correlated with long load times and cost visitors money on mobile data.

    • Reduce unused JavaScript (Est savings of 266 KiB), from Google Tag Manager: https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-FLK5J6Y89X&cx=c&gtm=4e6b41
    • Reduce unused CSS (Est savings of 73 KiB), from rentcafe.com: https://cdngeneralmvc.rentcafe.com/css/scss/502321/spritz/spritz.572502.134383511810000000.css
    • Legacy JavaScript (Est savings of 9 KiB), from Optanon: https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/202608.1.0/otBannerSdk.js

    What to do Remove code and files the page does not use.

    For your web team: Minify scripts and styles, remove unused and duplicate code, and stop shipping legacy polyfills. PageSpeed lists the files by size.

    Your web team · a few days · Important

    Avoid enormous network payloads, ChromeReport an issue with this check

  • Repeat visitors get a faster pageImportantPartial

    Use efficient cache lifetimes (Est savings of 71 KiB) Fetching resources over the network is both slow and expensive.

    • Use efficient cache lifetimes (Est savings of 71 KiB), from Optanon: https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/202608.1.0/otBannerSdk.js
    • Use efficient cache lifetimes (Est savings of 71 KiB), from Optanon: https://cdn.cookielaw.org/logos/4e85079a-4e3a-4ba5-a0ac-b85ac51e9d47/221d7757-1dc9-428d-971d-642d2cbb865a/d0529638-efff-446e-aa23-ea449b9acaa8/blank.png
    • Use efficient cache lifetimes (Est savings of 71 KiB), from Optanon: https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/otSDKStub.js

    What to do Let browsers keep images, scripts and styles between visits.

    For your web team: Send Cache-Control with a long max-age for fingerprinted static files, and revalidate the rest with ETag.

    Your web team · about an hour · Important

    Prevent unnecessary network requests with the HTTP Cache, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • The page responds as soon as it appearsImportantPass

    Total Blocking Time (80 ms) INP is the wait between a tap and the page responding, and under 200 milliseconds is good. Total Blocking Time, the lab test's stand-in, has the same bar.

    Total Blocking Time (TBT), GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Visitors are on a secure connectionImportantPass

    Uses HTTPS A secure connection helps prevent intruders tampering with traffic between your site and its visitors.

    Why HTTPS matters, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Served fastImportantPass

    All 3 audits in this goal pass. A CDN (a network of servers near your visitors) reduces the network latency that slows a server's first response.

    Reduce server response times (TTFB), ChromeReport an issue with this check

  • The page loads without errorsImportantPass

    All 7 audits in this goal pass. An error in the console means a problem on your page that you need to resolve.

    Browser errors were logged to the console, ChromeReport an issue with this check

  • Visitors are not interrupted on arrivalImportantPass

    All 3 audits in this goal pass. Users are mistrustful of or confused by pages that ask for their location as soon as they load.

    Requests the geolocation permission on page load, ChromeReport an issue with this check

See if AI chooses you

An AI agent searched “apartments in hillcrest san diego”, like 1,000 people a month.

The same rules every run: four searches, up to three sites, six pages, made-up details, and it never sends anything.

  • FoundOpened directly

    Search didn't list your site: it was not among the results of the agent's 1 search. The agent then opened your site directly, so the gates after this one are still judged.

  • UnderstoodReached

    The agent's answer cites a fact from your site's own pages.

  • ActedNot reached

    Your site registers no tool for AI assistants, so an assistant can only send the shopper to a form, a phone number or a contact page.

    Behind it:Buttons and links say what they doYour site offers tools to AI assistants

  1. Finding the search your site already ranks for on Google.

  2. Reading your site to plan the first search.3s

  3. Reviewing the search results.4s

  6. Deciding the next step.15s

  7. Judging how far it got.

What it told the shopper3 of 13 sources are your site

Here is the one apartment community I could open on its own website. It's a single option, not a full shortlist.

EVOC Hillcrest, 3935 Normal Street, San Diego, CA 92103 Website: https://www.evochillcrest.com/

Why it fits: It is a rental community in Hillcrest, which is what you asked for. Its homepage says Our one- and two-bedroom homes are waiting for residents who want to live where the city comes to life.

What the site says:

  • Location: Balboa Hospital, Scripps Mercy Hospital, and General Atomics are all within easy reach via State Route 163. It also says the local Farmers Market, San Diego Zoo, and Normal Street Promenade are steps from your front door.
  • Building features: Oversized balconies give you a private outdoor retreat above the energy of the street below, and walk-in closets keep your space organized.
  • Access: Smart technology including ButterflyMX and Dormakaba keyless entry keeps access seamless and secure throughout our community.
  • Amenities: A BBQ lounge, fire pit, hot tub, co-working space, and outdoor TV, plus an indoor pool shown in its photos. A café, Mostra Coffee, is on the ground floor.
  • Pets: Our community is also pet friendly.

How to take the next step: You can call +1 619-375-4859, or use the site's "Schedule a Tour" page at https://www.evochillcrest.com/scheduletour. The floor plans page (https://www.evochillcrest.com/floorplans) has the "Check Availability" link, and there is an online application link on the homepage.

What the site did not say: I read only the homepage. It gave no rent prices, lease terms, unit sizes, or current availability. Those are likely on the floor plans page, which I did not open. Confirm pet rules and fees directly with the leasing office.

  • Your siteevochillcrest.com/

    The assistant quoted your home page:

    Our one- and two-bedroom homes are waiting for residents who want to live where the city comes to life.
    Balboa Hospital, Scripps Mercy Hospital, and General Atomics are all within easy reach via State Route 163.
    The local Farmers Market, San Diego Zoo, and Normal Street Promenade are steps from your front door, where Hillcrest’s walkable streets make daily outings more enjoyable.
  • Your siteevochillcrest.com/scheduletour
  • Your siteevochillcrest.com/floorplans

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