I Ran My Website Audit on My Own Sites: 71 to 99

I sell website audits. The free audit tool runs Lighthouse, technical SEO, security and a link crawl, and turns them into one score and a plain-English report (how the score is computed).

Until this week I had never run the full version, link crawl included, against my own three sites. When I did, this site scored 71.

The command

The tool has a terminal entry point that uses the same pipeline as the web app, with no lead and no email:

make report URL=https://www.jalcocertech.com \
  ARGS="--links --link-method=docker --html --json=out.json"

--link-method=docker runs the link checker from a container, so the laptop needs nothing but Docker. The HTML report is the same one a visitor gets by email.

Before

Site	Overall	Performance	SEO	Security	Links
www.jalcocertech.com	71	86	76	70	40
Ebooks library	95	100	79	100	100
Consulting page	84	88	74	70	100

Step 1: fix the tool before judging the sites

Two of the findings were wrong, and both were the tool’s fault:

“No sitemap” on the ebooks site. The check only tried /sitemap.xml. Astro’s sitemap integration writes /sitemap-index.xml. The check now reads the Sitemap: lines in robots.txt first, then tries both names.
“No contact details” on the consulting page, which has an email in its footer. The contact check only scanned the first 5 KB of HTML (on a modern site that’s mostly <head>), and it didn’t recognise Cloudflare’s email obfuscation, which replaces addresses with /cdn-cgi/l/email-protection links. It now reads the whole page and counts those links.

If I had “fixed” the sites against those findings, I would have changed working sites to please a broken check. When a tool you wrote disagrees with what you can see in the browser, check the tool first.

Step 2: fix what was real

Finding	Fix	Write-up
6 broken links in one article	Linked the published copies, added the missing image	—
273 broken links on ebooks, invisible until a 404 page existed	A remark plugin that rewrites chapter links	A missing 404 page hid them
No sitemap, no `Sitemap:` line, no canonical	`@astrojs/sitemap`, robots.txt, `<link rel="canonical">`	—
No CSP, HSTS or X-Frame-Options	`_headers`, checked in a real browser	CSP on Cloudflare Pages
LCP 3.8 s on mobile	Self-hosted fonts	LCP was render delay
1.26 MB of JavaScript on the consulting page	Load the booking embed on approach	Lazy-loading the Cal.com embed
A tiny or wrong share picture	A new check, then real cards	Checking og:image, share cards

After

Site	Overall	Performance	SEO	Security	Links
www.jalcocertech.com	99	98	100	100	100
Ebooks library	100	100	100	100	100
Consulting page	97	94	100	100	100

The consulting performance figure moves between 94 and 98 from run to run; that’s normal Lighthouse noise, not a regression.

What I took from it

Run your own product on yourself, with every option on. The quick audit skips the link crawl; the full one found 279 broken links across my sites.
Fix the measuring tool first. Two of the “problems” were bugs in the tool.
A clean score can hide a gap in the checks. All three sites passed the share-image check while two of them shared a 248×56 logo. The check only looked for the tag. Finding that gap was worth more than the points.
The fixes were small. One config line for the sitemap, one file for the headers, a font import, a twenty-line observer. Most sites, mine included, aren’t one big rewrite away from good; they’re a list of small things nobody had measured.

If you want the same list for your site, the audit is free and takes about twenty seconds.