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Poor for AI agents

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

    Headings give each page an outline

    Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order

    What to do Give each page one main heading and put the headings under it in order.

    Your web team · about an hourSee the check

  2. Fail·Understand

    Images describe themselves

    Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

    What to do Describe every meaningful image.

    Your web team · a few daysSee the check

  3. 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

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These 16 fixes add up to about seven weeks of your web team's time.

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89

Find

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

25% of your grade · 8 of 9 goals pass

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

    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

    All 2 audits in this goal pass. 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

  • Your pages are listed in a sitemapImportantPass

    https://verisresidential.com/sitemap_index.xml is a sitemap. 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.

    Build and submit a sitemap, 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

    All 2 audits in this goal pass. 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

62

Understand

Can they tell who you are and what you offer?

25% of your grade · 4 of 7 goals pass

  • Headings give each page an outlineImportantFail

    Heading elements are not in a sequentially-descending order Headings give a page a clear structure.

    • Fix any of the following: Heading order invalid: <h6 class="omg-carousel-card__building">: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers
    • Fix any of the following: Heading order invalid: <h6 class="site-search-modal__row-header arrow-after-text">: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers

    What to do Give each page one main heading and put the headings under it in order.

    For your web team: Use h1 once, then h2 to h6 without skipping a level, and remove or fill any heading element that has no text.

    Your web team · about an hour · Important

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

  • Images describe themselvesImportantFail

    Image elements do not have [alt] attributes 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.

    • Fix any of the following: Element does not have an alt attribute aria-label attribute does not exist or is empty aria-labelledby attribute does not exist, references elements that do not exist or references elements that are empty Element has no title attribute Element's default semantics were not overridden with role="none" or role="presentation": <img class="building building-view-all building-active lazyloaded" data-src="https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LibertyTowers_2024LogoUpda…" style="--smush-placeholder-width: 991px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 991/10…;" draggable="false" src="https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LibertyTowers_2024LogoUpda…">: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers
    • Fix any of the following: Element does not have an alt attribute aria-label attribute does not exist or is empty aria-labelledby attribute does not exist, references elements that do not exist or references elements that are empty Element has no title attribute Element's default semantics were not overridden with role="none" or role="presentation": <img class="image-card__image lazyload" data-src="https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LT_Apt_Bed_Closet_9640-Ult…" draggable="false" data-viewer="https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LT_Apt_Bed_Closet_9640-Ult…" data-large-img-url="https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LT_Apt_Bed_Closet_9640-Ult…" data-focal-point="" data-caption="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1200/…;">: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers
    • Fix any of the following: Element does not have an alt attribute aria-label attribute does not exist or is empty aria-labelledby attribute does not exist, references elements that do not exist or references elements that are empty Element has no title attribute Element's default semantics were not overridden with role="none" or role="presentation": <img class="image-card__image lazyload" data-src="https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LT_Apt_Bed_View_9626-Ultra…" draggable="false" data-viewer="https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LT_Apt_Bed_View_9626-Ultra…" data-large-img-url="https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LT_Apt_Bed_View_9626-Ultra…" data-focal-point="" data-caption="" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==" style="--smush-placeholder-width: 1200px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1200/…;">: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers

    What to do Describe every meaningful image.

    For your web team: Give each meaningful img an alt attribute that says what it shows, an empty alt="" to decorative images, and a text name to image buttons, svg graphics and objects.

    Your web team · a few days · Important

    Image SEO Best Practices, GoogleReport an issue with this check

  • Lists and tables are built as lists and tablesImportantPartial

    Lists do not contain only <li> elements and script supporting elements (<script> and <template>). 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.

    • Fix all of the following: List element has direct children that are not allowed: div: <ul class="wp-block-navigation__container items-justified-center no-wrap property-men…">: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers

    What to do Build price lists and schedules as real lists and tables.

    For your web team: Use ul, ol and dl with li, dt and dd children, and table markup with th header cells for tabular data, rather than line breaks and styled divs.

    Your web team · a few days · Important

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

  • Your key facts are in the page itselfCriticalPass

    The page as your server sends it holds its text; scripts add 75 pieces of text. 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.

    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 WebPage, ReadAction, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList, ListItem, WebSite, SearchAction, EntryPoint, PropertyValueSpecification, and Organization. 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

  • 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 2 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

63

Act

Can they take the next step for a customer?

25% of your grade · 5 of 10 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="javascript:void(0);" class="paoc-pro-close-popup paoc-popup-close bg-transparent">: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers

    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://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers

    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

    [user-scalable="no"] is used in the <meta name="viewport"> element or the [maximum-scale] attribute is less than 5. 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: maximum-scale on <meta> tag disables zooming on mobile devices: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, minimum-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers

    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

  • 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 (55px by 12px, should be at least 24px by 24px) Target has insufficient space to its closest neighbors. Safe clickable space has a diameter of 13px instead of at least 24px.: <a href="/properties">: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers

    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

  • 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

  • Custom controls announce what they areImportantPass

    ARIA input fields 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 11 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

  • Videos and embedded frames have textImportantPass

    <frame> or <iframe> elements have a title WCAG, the web accessibility standard most laws point to, requires captions for the audio in prerecorded video.

    Accessibility for agents, ChromeReport an issue with this check

61

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 · 3 of 10 goals pass

  • The page responds as soon as it appearsImportantFail

    Interaction to Next Paint is 718 ms for real visitors of your whole site, last 28 days, which Google rates poor. 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.

    • Interaction to Next Paint is 718 ms for real visitors of your whole site, last 28 days, which Google rates poor.: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers
    • Reduce JavaScript execution time (1.9 s): https://verisresidential.com/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.min.js?ver=1693242863
    • Minimize main-thread work (5.5 s): https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers

    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

  • Repeat visitors get a faster pageImportantFail

    Use efficient cache lifetimes (Est savings of 6,220 KiB) Fetching resources over the network is both slow and expensive.

    • Use efficient cache lifetimes (Est savings of 6,220 KiB): https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LT_Clubroom_Fireplace_LBP_240825_824-UltraLowRes-scaled.jpg
    • Use efficient cache lifetimes (Est savings of 6,220 KiB): https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/5-768x512.png
    • Use efficient cache lifetimes (Est savings of 6,220 KiB): https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/1-768x513.png

    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 main content shows up quicklyImportantPartial

    Speed Index (18.5 s). Measured from real visitors of your whole site, 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.

    • Speed Index (18.5 s): https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers
    • Render-blocking requests (Est savings of 1,850 ms), from Adobe TypeKit: https://use.typekit.net/lyj0tht.css
    • Network dependency tree: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers

    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 jump around while it loadsImportantPartial

    Cumulative Layout Shift is 0.13 for real visitors of your whole site, last 28 days, which Google rates needs improvement. 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 0.13 for real visitors of your whole site, last 28 days, which Google rates needs improvement.: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers
    • Avoid large layout shifts (3 layout shifts found): <div style="width:100%">: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers
    • Avoid non-composited animations (11 animated elements found): <div class="renovation-toggle__choices-wrapper">: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers

    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

  • Images are the right sizeImportantPartial

    Improve image delivery (Est savings of 1,764 KiB) and Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio. Serving images larger than the version rendered on screen results in wasted bytes and slows page load.

    • Improve image delivery (Est savings of 1,764 KiB): <img decoding="async" width="1535" height="1024" src="https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/5-768x512.png" class="property-gallery__image carousel__image no-lazyload" alt="" draggable="false" srcset="https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/5.png 1535w, https://veris…" data-vr-tour-url="" style="" sizes="(max-width: 1535px) 100vw, 1535px">: https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/5-768x512.png
    • Displays images with incorrect aspect ratio: <img decoding="async" width="3840" height="2973" src="https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LT_Apt_Kitchen_9467-UltraL…" class="property-gallery__image carousel__image no-lazyload" alt="" draggable="false" srcset="https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LT_Apt_Kitchen_9467-UltraL…" data-vr-tour-url="" style="" sizes="(max-width: 3840px) 100vw, 3840px">: https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LT_Apt_Kitchen_9467-UltraLowRes-768x595.jpg

    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

    Avoid enormous network payloads (Total size was 8,704 KiB), Reduce unused JavaScript (Est savings of 959 KiB), Reduce unused CSS (Est savings of 99 KiB), Minify JavaScript (Est savings of 6 KiB), Minify CSS (Est savings of 4 KiB), and Legacy JavaScript (Est savings of 49 KiB). Large network payloads are highly correlated with long load times and cost visitors money on mobile data.

    • Avoid enormous network payloads (Total size was 8,704 KiB): https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/uploads/LT_Clubroom_Fireplace_LBP_240825_824-UltraLowRes-scaled.jpg
    • Reduce unused JavaScript (Est savings of 959 KiB), from Google CDN: https://www.gstatic.com/recaptcha/releases/bSuJ2xBC8cFy7pM4Z3Hu9boH/recaptcha__en.js
    • Reduce unused CSS (Est savings of 99 KiB): https://verisresidential.com/wp-content/themes/omg-re-portfolio-theme/newassets/build/css/styles.css?ver=1793392910

    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 loads without errorsImportantPartial

    Browser errors were logged to the console. An error in the console means a problem on your page that you need to resolve.

    • Access to fetch at 'https://h2.aisiteanalytics.com/x/sax' from origin 'https://verisresidential.com' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.: https://verisresidential.com/jersey-city-nj-apartments/liberty-towers

    What to do Open the page in a browser's developer tools and clear the errors it lists.

    For your web team: Fix each console error and browser issue, replace deprecated APIs, publish source maps for your scripts, and start the document with a doctype and a charset.

    Your web team · a few days · Important

    Browser errors were logged to the console, ChromeReport 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

  • 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

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