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B

Usable by AI agents, with gaps

Capped at B: your site offers assistants no tools to act with, and an A needs them. Your checks earned 91.

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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·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

  2. Partial·Performance

    The main content shows up quickly

    First Contentful Paint (2.0 s) and Speed Index (7.1 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

  3. Partial·Performance

    The page responds as soon as it appears

    Total Blocking Time (240 ms)

    What to do Remove scripts it does not need, which keep the page busy.

    Your web team · a week or moreSee the check

Fix it,

or see it rebuilt

These 6 fixes add up to about three weeks of your web team's time.

  • Send to your agency

    An email with what is wrong and a link to this report, so whoever runs the site has every fix and its line for the web team.

    Send to your agency

  • Explore with your AI

    Your own AI reads the report and tells you how to fix each issue and the effort each takes. It gets this, and nothing else:

    Read this report on our website: clutch.io/grade/greylinridge-com. Tell me how to fix each issue and the level of effort each fix takes.

  • See your site rebuilt

    Clutch rebuilds greylinridge.com from its address, and the new site doesn't have these issues. Free to preview, $39 a month once it goes live.

    See your site rebuilt
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

84

Act

Can they take the next step for a customer?

25% of your grade · 7 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.greylinridge.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

  • 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 10 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

  • Text is readableImportantPass

    All 2 audits in this goal pass. WCAG requires text to contrast with its background by at least 4.5 to 1, and the axe rule color-contrast checks for it.

    Rule color-contrast: Elements must meet minimum color contrast ratio thresholds, Deque axeReport 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

81

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 · 6 of 10 goals pass

  • The main content shows up quicklyImportantPartial

    First Contentful Paint (2.0 s) and Speed Index (7.1 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.greylinridge.com/
    • Speed Index (7.1 s): https://www.greylinridge.com/
    • LCP breakdown: https://www.greylinridge.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

  • The page responds as soon as it appearsImportantPartial

    Total Blocking Time (240 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 (240 ms): https://www.greylinridge.com/
    • Minimize main-thread work (2.3 s): https://www.greylinridge.com/
    • Forced reflow: https://www.greylinridge.com/

    What to do Remove scripts it does not need, which keep the page busy.

    For your web team: Split long tasks and defer scripts that are not needed to start. PageSpeed lists the costliest scripts.

    Your web team · a week or more · Important

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

  • The page does not weigh muchImportantPartial

    Reduce unused JavaScript (Est savings of 406 KiB), Reduce unused CSS (Est savings of 71 KiB), Minify JavaScript (Est savings of 48 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 406 KiB), from skypack.dev: https://cdn.skypack.dev/-/@meetelise/chat@v1.43.41-ml51n1OMw8uDHYpSijIW/dist=es2019,mode=imports/optimized/@meetelise/chat.js
    • Reduce unused CSS (Est savings of 71 KiB), from rentcafe.com: https://cdngeneralmvc.rentcafe.com/css/scss/289912/theo/theo.503306.134383511810000000.css
    • Minify JavaScript (Est savings of 48 KiB), from skypack.dev: https://cdn.skypack.dev/-/@meetelise/chat@v1.43.41-ml51n1OMw8uDHYpSijIW/dist=es2019,mode=imports/optimized/@meetelise/chat.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 70 KiB) Fetching resources over the network is both slow and expensive.

    • Use efficient cache lifetimes (Est savings of 70 KiB), from Optanon: https://cdn.cookielaw.org/scripttemplates/202606.1.0/otBannerSdk.js
    • Use efficient cache lifetimes (Est savings of 70 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 70 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 does not jump around while it loadsImportantPass

    Cumulative Layout Shift (0.028) 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.

    Web Vitals, 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

  • Images are the right sizeImportantPass

    All 4 audits in this goal pass. Serving images larger than the version rendered on screen results in wasted bytes and slows page load.

    Properly size images, 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 for rent in statesville nc”, like 590 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 2 searches. 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.4s

  3. Reviewing the search results.3s

  4. Reviewing the search results.6s

  7. Deciding the next step.15s

  8. Judging how far it got.

What it told the shopper1 of 21 sources is your site

I found one apartment community to look at for Statesville: Greylin Ridge Apartments, at https://www.greylinridge.com/. I could only check this one business's website, so I have no other options to compare it with.

What the site says (from https://www.greylinridge.com/):

  • It offers 2-, 3- & 4-bedroom affordable apartments for rent in Statesville, NC.
  • Location: Perfectly situated off N Pointe Boulevard and Solstice Drive, just minutes from Downtown Statesville. The site lists its address as 118 Greylin Loop, Statesville, NC 28625.
  • Apartment features: air conditioning, large closets, and window coverings, plus kitchens that have efficient appliances, W/D hookups, and soft carpeting.
  • Community features: a common room, courtyard, and clubhouse, along with a BBQ/picnic area, ... laundry facilities, and a playground. The site also mentions a business center and on-site maintenance services.
  • Nearby: the site lists Caldwell Park about 1 mile away and Highway 21 about 3 miles away.
  • The site describes the homes as low-income apartments in Statesville, NC, and it has a separate Income Qualifications page. I did not open that page, so I can't tell you the income limits.

Next steps:

  • Call +1 844-718-2381. The site lists office hours as Monday: 8 AM to - 4 PM, Wednesday: 8 AM to - 4 PM, Thursday: 8 AM to - 4 PM, and Friday: 8 AM to - 4 PM. It is closed Tuesday, Saturday, and Sunday.
  • Use the "Schedule a Tour" link on the site to book a visit.
  • Check the Floor Plans page to see the layouts and availability.
  • Use the applicant portal linked from the homepage if you're ready to apply.

What the site did not say:

  • Rent prices, deposits, and current availability. The homepage does not list them, and I did not open the Floor Plans page.
  • Income limits and application requirements. These are on the Income Qualifications page, which I did not open.
  • Pet policy, lease terms, and utility details.
  • Your sitegreylinridge.com/

    The assistant quoted your home page:

    Greylin Ridge presents 2-, 3- & 4-bedroom affordable apartments for rent in Statesville, NC designed with your utmost comfort in mind.
    Perfectly situated off N Pointe Boulevard and Solstice Drive, Greylin Ridge Apartments places you near everyday conveniences, popular dining, and shopping options while keeping you just minutes from Downtown Statesville.
    Our spacious two, three, and four-bedroom layouts are thoughtfully designed with all the essentials you need, including air conditioning, large closets, and window coverings.

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