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Poor for AI agents

Capped at D: assistants have trouble acting on your site (Act 54). Your checks earned 81.

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Speed: Pass (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

    Assistants can read your page's controls

    Accessibility tree is not well-formed

    What to do Run Google's PageSpeed Insights on the home page and fix the accessibility problems it lists, which are mostly buttons and fields with no label.

    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

Fix it,

or see it rebuilt

These 7 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/softcoder-portfolio-vercel-app. Tell me how to fix each issue and the level of effort each fix takes.

  • See your site rebuilt

    Clutch rebuilds softcoder-portfolio.vercel.app 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
89

Find

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

25% of your grade · 8 of 9 goals pass

  • Your pages are listed in a sitemapImportantFail

    https://softcoder-portfolio.vercel.app/sitemap.xml answers 404. Google and Bing use an XML sitemap named in robots.txt to find your pages, and neither promises to index every page in it. A page must be indexed to appear in Google's AI answers.

    • Status 404: https://softcoder-portfolio.vercel.app/sitemap.xml

    What to do Publish a sitemap and name it in robots.txt.

    For your web team: Serve a sitemap.xml (a urlset, or a sitemapindex for several files) and add a Sitemap line with the sitemap's full address to robots.txt.

    Your web team · about an hour · Important

    Build and submit a sitemap, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Search engines and AI assistants are allowed to read your siteCriticalPass

    robots.txt answers 404, so the site sets no rules. Every AI search crawler and agent we grade is allowed. Training crawlers are allowed. A crawler is a robot that reads sites for a search engine or assistant, and one that is blocked cannot recommend you. Bing lists blocking Bingbot among the things to avoid, because content it cannot crawl may not be indexed or used in Copilot's answers.

    Overview of OpenAI crawlers, OpenAIReport an issue with this check

  • Search engines may list each pageCriticalPass

    Page isn’t blocked from indexing Google leaves out a page marked noindex, and a page its crawler cannot read cannot be listed or used as a supporting link in its AI features.

    AI features and your website, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Search results can show your pages' wordsCriticalPass

    Nothing in the page's robots meta tags or headers stops search engines from showing its words. A page whose text is kept out of results leaves a search engine or assistant nothing to quote. Google's AI features follow nosnippet and max-snippet, and Bing keeps content marked noarchive out of Copilot and limits nocache pages to their address, title and snippet.

    Robots.txt Introduction and Guide, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Every page has its own titleImportantPass

    Document has a <title> element Google builds the title link in search results from the page's title, and may change one that is missing, vague, boilerplate or repeated. A title keeps your wording in front of searchers.

    Influencing Title Links in Google Search, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Pages that do not exist say soImportantPass

    A page that does not exist answers 404. Google treats content behind a 404 or 410 as gone, and flags empty pages that answer 200 (success) as soft 404s.

    How Google Search handles HTTP status codes, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Each page has one clear addressImportantPass

    Document has a valid hreflang Google uses one canonical address per page, and uses hreflang to send searchers to the version of the page in their language.

    How to Specify a Canonical with rel="canonical" and Other Methods, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Pages open without detoursImportantPass

    All 2 audits in this goal pass. Each extra redirect is another trip across the network that can delay the page by hundreds of milliseconds.

    Avoid multiple page redirects, ChromeReport an issue with this check

85

Understand

Can they tell who you are and what you offer?

25% of your grade · 6 of 7 goals pass

54

Act

Can they take the next step for a customer?

25% of your grade · 4 of 7 goals pass

  • Assistants can read your page's controlsMust haveCriticalFail

    Accessibility tree is not well-formed Agents review the accessibility tree to find what they can click or fill in, and missing labels can block them.

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

    • Links must have discernible text: <a href="https://github.com/SoftyCoder" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" class="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 transition-colors hover:text-foreground">: https://softcoder-portfolio.vercel.app/

    What to do Run Google's PageSpeed Insights on the home page and fix the accessibility problems it lists, which are mostly buttons and fields with no label.

    For your web team: Give every button, link and field an accessible name, associate each field with a label, and remove invalid ARIA roles and attributes. PageSpeed lists the elements that fail.

    Your web team · about a day · Critical

    Accessibility for agents, ChromeReport an issue with this check

  • 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://softcoder-portfolio.vercel.app/

    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

  • 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 2 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

96

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 · 8 of 10 goals pass

  • The main content shows up quicklyImportantPartial

    Speed Index (4.1 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.

    • Speed Index (4.1 s): https://softcoder-portfolio.vercel.app/
    • LCP breakdown: https://softcoder-portfolio.vercel.app/
    • Render-blocking requests (Est savings of 120 ms): https://softcoder-portfolio.vercel.app/_next/static/immutable/chunks/02y-zz1djxz73.css

    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 does not weigh muchImportantPartial

    Reduce unused JavaScript (Est savings of 50 KiB) and Legacy JavaScript (Est savings of 14 KiB). Large network payloads are highly correlated with long load times and cost visitors money on mobile data.

    • Reduce unused JavaScript (Est savings of 50 KiB): https://softcoder-portfolio.vercel.app/_next/static/immutable/chunks/0kisar0-5rc5l.js
    • Legacy JavaScript (Est savings of 14 KiB): https://softcoder-portfolio.vercel.app/_next/static/immutable/chunks/0kisar0-5rc5l.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

  • The page responds as soon as it appearsImportantPass

    Total Blocking Time (40 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

  • The page does not jump around while it loadsImportantPass

    Cumulative Layout Shift (0) 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

  • Repeat visitors get a faster pageImportantPass

    Use efficient cache lifetimes Fetching resources over the network is both slow and expensive.

    Prevent unnecessary network requests with the HTTP Cache, GoogleReport 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 “web developer for hire”, like 110 people a month.

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

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

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

  3. Reviewing the search results.2s

  4. Reviewing the search results.3s

  7. Deciding the next step.2s

  8. Reviewing the search results.2s

  9. Deciding the next step.13s

  10. Judging how far it got.

What it told the shopper1 of 28 sources is your site

I opened SoftCoder's portfolio at https://softcoder-portfolio.vercel.app/. It's a personal portfolio for a developer who is a BTech student at IIT Madras, so it's a fit if you want a freelance web developer, though the site is light on hiring details.

What the site says

  • The developer describes themselves as Developer and BTech student at IIT Madras. They say they ship AI-assisted web apps, wrangle communities, craft motion graphics, and grind algorithms.
  • The site shows a "available for collaborations" note at the top.
  • Web work listed on the site includes Clean component systems, buttery interactions, and shipping fast without cutting corners. The stack includes React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Node.js, shadcn/ui, plus TypeScript and JavaScript.
  • Other work includes a browser-playable game, Tenspark, built in Godot, plus community management, game mod work, and motion graphics.
  • They also point to a student-run consultancy, Tensors, which takes on real client briefs, ship software end-to-end. Tensors' site is tensors.in, linked from the page.

Why I'd consider them

They're a good choice if you want a modern React/Next.js front end built quickly, and if you value a developer who also does design-heavy motion work. The site is also the most direct route to contact them.

Next step

Email roshanraju2008@gmail.com, or use the LinkedIn link (/in/soft-coder) on the page. The site lists these under "Let's Talk," and says the developer is always open to connecting with fellow developers, designers, and creators.

What the site does not say

  • No rates, package prices, or project minimums.
  • No turnaround times or current availability beyond the "available for collaborations" note.
  • No client list or case studies with outcomes, beyond the Tenspark game and the Tensors mention.
  • Nothing about contracts, payment terms, or whether they work as a full-time hire versus a freelancer. As a student, their availability may be limited, which you should ask about directly.

I only read this one page, so I can't confirm anything beyond it.

  • Your sitesoftcoder-portfolio.vercel.app/

    The assistant quoted your home page:

    Developer and BTech student at IIT Madras.
    I ship AI-assisted web apps, wrangle communities, craft motion graphics, and grind algorithms — where high-end SaaS meets gaming culture.
    </>SoftCoder JourneyStackTensorsProjectsContactGitHub available for collaborations Hi, I'm SoftCoder I build for the web & the game.

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