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Hard for AI agents to use

Capped at C: your key facts are not in the page itself. Your checks earned 83.

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Speed: Fail (real visitors, last 28 days)Core Web Vitals, Google

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

    Your key facts are in the page itself

    The first page your server sends is a loading page, “One moment, please... Loader Please wait while your request ”, and the page it moves on to holds the content. An assistant that runs no script reads only that page.

    What to do Make the home page send its text from the server, so it shows up with scripts turned off.

    Your web team · a few daysSee 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. Fail·Performance

    The page does not jump around while it loads

    Cumulative Layout Shift is 0.43 for real visitors of this page, last 28 days, which Google rates poor.

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

    Your web team · about a daySee the check

Fix it,

or see it rebuilt

These 8 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/thepiperapts-com. Tell me how to fix each issue and the level of effort each fix takes.

  • See your site rebuilt

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

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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

77

Understand

Can they tell who you are and what you offer?

25% of your grade · 6 of 7 goals pass

  • Your key facts are in the page itselfMust haveCriticalFail

    The first page your server sends is a loading page, “One moment, please... Loader Please wait while your request ”, and the page it moves on to holds the content. An assistant that runs no script reads only that page. Claude's web fetch tool does not support pages that fill in their text with JavaScript, and Google reads such a page only after its first HTML, once it reaches the rendering queue. A page whose first response is empty waits or looks empty.

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

    • Only on the page the loading page moves on to: https://thepiperapts.com/
    • Only on the page the loading page moves on to: https://thepiperapts.com/
    • Only on the page the loading page moves on to: https://thepiperapts.com/

    What to do Make the home page send its text from the server, so it shows up with scripts turned off.

    For your web team: Render the page's content on the server or at build time, and use scripts to add to it. Fetch the page without a browser to check the text is in it.

    Your web team · a few days · Critical

    Understand JavaScript SEO basics, Google Search CentralReport an issue with this check

  • Your business is described in structured dataImportantPass

    The home page's structured data names ApartmentComplex, LocalBusiness, PostalAddress, GeoCoordinates, Place, FloorPlan, QuantitativeValue, PriceSpecification, LocationFeatureSpecification, OpeningHoursSpecification, ReserveAction, EntryPoint, CommunicateAction, FindAction, PropertyValue, WebPage, ImageObject, and Action. Structured data spares an assistant from guessing what a page means. Google says it gives explicit clues about a page; Bing says it may support clearer grounding and promises nothing.

    Intro to structured data, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Headings give each page an outlineImportantPass

    Heading elements appear in a sequentially-descending order Headings give a page a clear structure.

    Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Images describe themselvesImportantPass

    All 2 audits in this goal pass. Alt text is a short written description of an image. Google calls it the most important attribute for adding metadata about an image, and it also uses computer vision on the picture.

    Image SEO Best Practices, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Lists and tables are built as lists and tablesImportantPass

    All 2 audits in this goal pass. WCAG, the web accessibility standard most laws point to, requires the structure a page shows on screen to be in its markup as well, and the axe rules check lists and tables for it.

    Rule list: <ul> and <ol> must only directly contain <li>, <script> or <template> elements, Deque axeReport an issue with this check

  • Every page has its own summary for search resultsImportantPass

    Document has a meta description Google can show a page's meta description as its snippet and asks for a different one on every page. It is less likely to show a list of keywords, so a specific summary has the best chance of being used.

    How to Write Meta Descriptions, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Pages say which language they are inImportantPass

    All 3 audits in this goal pass. WCAG requires the language of each page to be set in its code, so software reads it with the right rules and voice.

    Rule html-has-lang: <html> element must have a lang attribute, Deque axeReport an issue with this check

82

Act

Can they take the next step for a customer?

25% of your grade · 5 of 7 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://thepiperapts.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

  • Buttons and links are big enough to tapImportantPartial

    Touch targets do not have sufficient size or spacing. web.dev recommends tap targets of around 48 pixels, and WCAG sets a minimum of 24 by 24 pixels.

    • Fix any of the following: Target has insufficient size (7px by 7px, should be at least 24px by 24px) Target has insufficient space to its closest neighbors. Safe clickable space has a diameter of 10px instead of at least 24px.: <a href="#" class="homepage__gallery-active">: https://thepiperapts.com/

    What to do Make small buttons and tightly packed links bigger on phones.

    For your web team: Make each target at least 24 by 24 CSS pixels, or leave enough space around smaller ones, and aim for around 48 pixels. Set width=device-width in the viewport tag so taps answer at once.

    Your web team · about an hour · Important

    Accessible tap targets, GoogleReport 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

  • 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 3 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

74

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 is 0.43 for real visitors of this page, last 28 days, which Google rates poor. 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 is 0.43 for real visitors of this page, last 28 days, which Google rates poor.: https://thepiperapts.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 is 2.2 s for real visitors of this page, last 28 days, which Google rates needs improvement and Speed Index (7.4 s). Measured from real visitors of this page, last 28 days; the rest is a lab test on a phone. 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 is 2.2 s for real visitors of this page, last 28 days, which Google rates needs improvement.: https://thepiperapts.com/
    • Speed Index (7.4 s): https://thepiperapts.com/
    • LCP breakdown: https://thepiperapts.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 229 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 229 KiB): <img data-jdl-action="home-hero-impression" data-jdl-data="{&quot;index&quot;:0,&quot;count&quot;:3,&quot;media_type&quot;:&quot;image&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;Welcome Home&quot;,&quot;src&quot;:&quot;ht…" data-jdl-view="" data-el="image[]" class="homepage__rotator-image" fetchpriority="high" src="https://thepiperapts.com/assets/images/cache/Piper-October-26-2024-37-4e88…" alt="two buildings with trees in the middle" draggable="false" style="opacity: 1;">: https://thepiperapts.com/assets/images/cache/Piper-October-26-2024-37-4e8800f94d928f341ee94209f661ecf8.jpg
    • Image elements do not have explicit width and height: <img class="themer-logo themer-logo--main themer-logo--mobile" fetchpriority="high" src="/themer/assets/logo/mobile_logo_main_1754494296.png" alt="The Piper">: https://thepiperapts.com/themer/assets/logo/mobile_logo_main_1754494296.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 CSS (Est savings of 46 KiB). Large network payloads are highly correlated with long load times and cost visitors money on mobile data.

    • Reduce unused CSS (Est savings of 46 KiB): .themer-logo{max-width:100%;} …

    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): https://thepiperapts.com/assets/images/cache/Piper-October-26-2024-37-4e8800f94d928f341ee94209f661ecf8.jpg
    • Use efficient cache lifetimes (Est savings of 71 KiB): https://thepiperapts.com/assets/images/pattern.png
    • Use efficient cache lifetimes (Est savings of 71 KiB): https://thepiperapts.com/views/site/js/dist/scripts.min.js?v=1787229647

    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

    Interaction to Next Paint is 103 ms for real visitors of this page, last 28 days, which Google rates good. 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 “redmond wa apartments for rent”, like 1,300 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:Your 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.5s

  3. Reviewing the search results.4s

  4. Reviewing the search results.5s

  6. Deciding the next step.6s

  7. Deciding the next step.8s

  8. Deciding the next step.7s

  9. Judging how far it got.

What it told the shopper3 of 23 sources are your site

I checked one Redmond apartment community: The Piper, at 17305 NE 67th Ct, Redmond, WA 98052. Its own website is https://thepiperapts.com/. I only have this one business to recommend, so I can't offer a comparison.

What the website says

  • Apartment types: The Piper in Redmond, WA offers Studio, 1, 2, or 3 bedroom apartments for rent. The homepage describes them as blend modern design with a welcoming neighborhood feel. (https://thepiperapts.com/)
  • Location: Nestled in Southeast Redmond, steps from Marymoor Park and minutes from Downtown Redmond. The site says you're surrounded by scenic trails, local cafés, and an easy commute to Microsoft and nearby tech campuses. (https://thepiperapts.com/)
  • Features: Kitchens have quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, and sleek cabinetry, along with oversized windows. Select layouts offer private balconies, and in-home washers and dryers are included. (https://thepiperapts.com/floorplans/)
  • Pets: Up to two pets per apartment. Breed restrictions may apply, and a refundable pet deposit and monthly pet rent apply. (https://thepiperapts.com/)
  • Prices (listed starting rents, which change): The floor plan page lists a studio S1 at 476 sq. ft., starting at $1,966; a one-bedroom A4 starting at $2,690; and a two-bedroom B10 starting at $4,513. Several other plans show "Contact Us" instead of a price. The page also says prices and availability are subject to change. Please see a representative for details. (https://thepiperapts.com/floorplans/)
  • Furnished units: The floor plan page mentions Furnished Apartments Available. (https://thepiperapts.com/floorplans/)

Why it fits: It matches the search for Redmond apartments for rent, with studio through three-bedroom options, published starting prices, and a site that lists the address and phone number.

Next steps: Call 253-364-4985, book a tour through https://thepiperapts.com/schedule-a-tour/, or check the floor plans at https://thepiperapts.com/floorplans/ for a specific unit.

What the site did not say: I did not find lease terms, application requirements, application or move-in fees, utility costs, or the exact availability date for any unit. The floor plan page shows "Contact Us" for several plans, so their prices aren't listed. I also did not check the gallery, amenities, or neighborhood pages.

  • Your sitethepiperapts.com/

    The assistant quoted your home page:

    The Piper in Redmond, WA offers Studio, 1, 2, or 3 bedroom apartments for rent.
    Nestled in Southeast Redmond, our studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments blend modern design with a welcoming neighborhood feel.
    two buildings with trees in the middle - Living Redefined Find Your Perfect Fit a kitchen with wood floors and wood cabinets - Relax & Restore Surround Yourself With the Best Relax & Restore Modern Living Rooted in Redmond Discover a place where connection, comfort, and convenience come together — steps from Marymoor Park and minutes from Downtown Redmond.
  • Your sitethepiperapts.com/floorplans

    The assistant quoted your floorplans page:

    Enjoy modern kitchens with quartz countertops, stainless steel appliances, and sleek cabinetry, along with oversized windows that fill each home with natural light.
    Select layouts offer private balconies with views of Redmond’s lush tree canopy and easy access to nearby trails and parks.
    Every home is crafted for comfort — from energy-efficient features and in-home washers and dryers to smart storage and contemporary design details.
  • Your sitethepiperapts.com/schedule-a-tour

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