Website audit report

waterexamprep.com

/ 100

C · Needs work

30 issues found across 126 checks. Nothing critical.

Checks run: 126
Passed: 85
Failed: 30
Pages crawled: 12

Scanned 2026-10-09T11:15:24+00:00 · 4 host IPs · cert expires in 63 days

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76Security & trust 61Email deliverability 81Speed & Core Web Vitals 80Search fundamentals 73Content & structure 100Local business signals 94Infrastructure 100Off-page authority 94What Google's renderer sees

How you compare

Measured against every site SEOking has audited: a corpus that grows with each scan and cannot be reconstructed after the fact.

Your position

70th percentile of 40 sites audited. The average site scores 73, the median 73.

Sites built like yours

75 is the average for the 6 sites we have audited on custom / Cloudflare / Cloudflare, and you are above it.

The most unusual thing you fail

Browser caching is allowed

82% of the sites we have audited get this right and yours does not. Of everything on this report, it is the fault that most sets you apart from your competition, which makes it the first thing worth fixing.

Inbox Trust Index

Our own measure of whether your domain is trusted by the systems that decide if mail reaches an inbox. No other website audit reports this. It is built from BounceZero's deliverability platform.

/ 100

Fair

Working, but with faults that measurably cost you inbox placement.

What is pulling it down: DMARC enforcement · DKIM signing. See the email deliverability section below.

Measured against our corpus

We have measured deliverability across 532,475 domains. Yours is not among them, which simply means no one has needed to verify an address at it. The score above is from live measurements of your own DNS.

For context, 6.7% of the domains we have measured accept mail to any address, which makes their bounce behaviour unpredictable.

How your page actually renders

Loaded in a real browser at phone size. This is close to what a visitor and Google's renderer see.

Screenshot of waterexamprep.com on a mobile viewport — 390 × 844 viewport

Largest paint: 1.5s
Layout shift: 0
Requests: 2
Words rendered: 761
JS errors: 0
Failed resources: 0

Your plan

The 30 faults on this report come from 11 underlying causes. Fixing a cause fixes everything under it, so this is ordered by score returned per unit of work, not by severity alone.

The 5 quickest steps here take you from 79 to about 87. That is 8 points for changes measured in minutes and hours, not weeks.

1. Fix email authentication
DNS edit · minutes→ 83/100
These are all records in your DNS. One editing session fixes every one of them, and it is the change most likely to stop your mail being filtered.
Fixes 5 findings: DMARC policy is enforced · DKIM signing is configured · MTA-STS policy published · TLS reporting enabled · BIMI logo published
2. Make the structured data qualify
Template change · a few hours→ 88/100
Rich results — ratings, prices, FAQs, breadcrumbs — are what turn a listing into an advert, and they are decided by whether a few required properties are present. Markup that is invalid or incomplete is work already done that currently earns nothing.
Fixes 6 findings: The business is a describable entity · Content is marked up to be answered · The business is identified in structured data · Breadcrumbs are marked up · Site-wide search is declared · The entity links out to its profiles
3. Point the site's own authority at the pages that earn
Template change · a few hours→ 93/100
Internal links decide which of your pages search engines treat as important, and the decision is usually an accident of navigation design. It costs nothing to change and it changes what ranks.
Fixes 5 findings: Every page is linked from somewhere · Navigation promotes pages that earn money · Every page is linked from another · Each page covers a distinct subject · Internal authority is spread, not pooled
4. Complete the security headers
Server or CDN config · under an hour→ 95/100
All set in the same place — your web server or CDN. Half of them are single lines.
Fixes 5 findings: HSTS header · Content Security Policy header · MIME sniffing protection header · Clickjacking protection header · Referrer policy header
5. Correct caching and compression at the origin
Server or CDN config · under an hour→ 96/100
One misconfigured cache header suppresses browser caching, CDN caching and compression at once. Fixing it speeds up every page for every visitor, including the ones your ads paid for.
Fixes 1 finding: Browser caching is allowed
6. Write the titles and descriptions
Content work · days→ 97/100
Your title and description are the advert Google runs for you, free, every time someone searches.
Fixes 2 findings: Structured data present · Link previews are configured for X/Twitter
7. Fix the page on a phone
Template change · a few hours→ 98/100
Google indexes the mobile version of your site, and these are measured in a real phone-sized browser rather than inferred. A page that scrolls sideways or needs pinching to read loses the visitor before the content matters.
Fixes 1 finding: Tap targets are big enough to hit
8. Harden DNS and hosting
Server or CDN config · under an hour→ 99/100
Resilience and reputation work — lower urgency, but cheap while you are already in these systems.
Fixes 2 findings: DNSSEC enabled · CAA record restricts certificate issuance
9. Remaining individual fixes
Mixed · varies→ 99/100
These do not share a root cause with anything else on the report.
Fixes 1 finding: The writing is readable
10. Decide whether AI assistants may cite you
Server or CDN config · under an hour→ 100/100
A growing share of questions are answered without a results page. Being quotable is a distribution channel, and it is usually blocked by a plugin default rather than a decision.
Fixes 1 finding: A curated summary is published for assistants
11. Show who stands behind the content
Content work · days→ 100/100
Google's guidance asks who produced a page and why they should be trusted. For advice, health, legal or financial topics an anonymous, undated page competes badly against a named one.
Fixes 1 finding: A publisher is declared in structured data

Fix these first

Ranked by severity, then by how much score each returns.

high
1. DMARC policy is enforced
+9 pts
DMARC policy is p=none. p=none monitors only — it instructs receivers to do nothing, so nobody is actually prevented from spoofing your domain.
```
v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:fe1847f60078472686854b45da0abfee@dmarc-reports.cloudflare.net
```
How to fix: Move to p=quarantine, then p=reject, once your reports are clean.
high
2. DKIM signing is configured
+8 pts
No DKIM keys found on any common selector. Without DKIM your mail cannot prove it was not altered in transit, and DMARC cannot pass on forwarded messages.
How to fix: Enable DKIM in your mail provider and publish the key it gives you.
high
3. Browser caching is allowed
+6 pts
This site tells browsers never to store anything. Every returning visitor re-downloads the entire page. This belongs on cart and checkout pages only.
```
cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
```
How to fix: Restrict no-store to authenticated pages and let everything else cache.
high
4. Every page is linked from somewhere
+6 pts
9 of 12 crawled pages had no internal link pointing at them. Search engines discover pages by following links, so an unlinked page is found late or not at all — and passes on none of its authority. This affects every checked page of 9 templates (/study-guide/administration/{slug}, /study-guide/drinking-water-treatment/{slug}, /study-guide/{slug}), covering up to 82 pages in your sitemap. Fixing the templates fixes all of them at once.
9 affected URLs
How to fix: Link these from a relevant parent page, your navigation, or a hub page.
high
5. The business is a describable entity
+6 pts
No Organization or Person markup. An assistant that cannot name the entity behind the site will describe the business from fragments, or not at all, which is how a competitor becomes the answer.
How to fix: Add Organization JSON-LD with name, url, logo and sameAs links, so the description an assistant gives of the business is the one you wrote.

Full results

Security & trust

Whether the connection, certificate and headers hold up.

6 passed · 5 failed

76%

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HSTS headermedium
Missing. Tells browsers to only ever connect over HTTPS.
Send Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains
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Content Security Policy headermedium
Missing. Limits where scripts may load from, which is the main defence against injected code and card skimmers.
Add a Content-Security-Policy header, starting in report-only mode.
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MIME sniffing protection headerlow
Missing. Stops browsers guessing file types.
Send X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
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Clickjacking protection headerlow
Missing. Stops your site being framed inside someone else's.
Send X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN, or use CSP frame-ancestors.
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Referrer policy headerlow
Missing. Controls how much of your URL is leaked to other sites.
Send Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin
✓
Served over HTTPS
Secure connection working.
✓
HTTP redirects to HTTPS
Plain HTTP requests are redirected to the secure version.
✓
No insecure mixed content
All resources load securely.
✓
Cookies are protected
Cookies set Secure and HttpOnly.
✓
Certificate is not near expiry
Certificate valid for another 63 days (expires 2026-12-12).
✓
Modern TLS version
Negotiated TLSv1.3.

Email deliverability

Whether your mail reaches inboxes or spam folders.

5 passed · 5 failed

61%

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DMARC policy is enforcedhigh
DMARC policy is p=none. p=none monitors only — it instructs receivers to do nothing, so nobody is actually prevented from spoofing your domain.
```
v=DMARC1; p=none; rua=mailto:fe1847f60078472686854b45da0abfee@dmarc-reports.cloudflare.net
```
Move to p=quarantine, then p=reject, once your reports are clean.
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DKIM signing is configuredhigh
No DKIM keys found on any common selector. Without DKIM your mail cannot prove it was not altered in transit, and DMARC cannot pass on forwarded messages.
Enable DKIM in your mail provider and publish the key it gives you.
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MTA-STS policy publishedlow
No MTA-STS policy, so mail to you can be delivered unencrypted if an attacker strips TLS.
Publish an MTA-STS policy and the _mta-sts TXT record.
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TLS reporting enabledlow
No TLS-RPT record, so delivery-encryption failures go unreported.
Publish a _smtp._tls TXT record with a reporting address.
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BIMI logo publishedlow
No BIMI record. With DMARC at enforcement you could display your logo next to your messages in Gmail and Apple Mail.
Once DMARC is at quarantine or reject, publish a BIMI record with an SVG logo.
✓
Domain can receive email
3 mail server(s) configured.
✓
SPF ends with a fail qualifier
Ends in ~all (soft fail) — the usual safe setting.
✓
SPF stays under the lookup limit
The record forces about 1 DNS lookups. Comfortably within the limit of 10.
✓
DMARC reports are collected
Aggregate reports are being sent to a reporting address.
✓
Exactly one SPF record
One SPF record, as required.

Speed & Core Web Vitals

How fast real visitors experience the site.

6 passed · 1 failed · 1 skipped

81%

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Browser caching is allowedhigh
This site tells browsers never to store anything. Every returning visitor re-downloads the entire page. This belongs on cart and checkout pages only.
```
cache-control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate
```
Restrict no-store to authenticated pages and let everything else cache.
–
Core Web Vitals from real users
Not available: PageSpeed API returned 429. This usually means the site does not yet have enough Chrome traffic for Google to report field data. Lab measurements below still apply.
✓
Compression enabled
Served with gzip compression.
✓
Server responds quickly
Median response across 12 page(s) was 119 ms.
✓
Homepage HTML is not oversized
Homepage HTML is 28 KB.
✓
Reasonable number of scripts
0 external script file(s) on the homepage.
✓
Images use a modern format
No raster images found on the crawled pages.
✓
Images are sized for the device
No images found on the crawled pages.

Search fundamentals

The tags, files and signals search engines read first.

23 passed · 9 failed · 3 skipped

80%

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The business is a describable entityhigh
No Organization or Person markup. An assistant that cannot name the entity behind the site will describe the business from fragments, or not at all, which is how a competitor becomes the answer.
Add Organization JSON-LD with name, url, logo and sameAs links, so the description an assistant gives of the business is the one you wrote.
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Content is marked up to be answeredhigh
No FAQPage, HowTo or QAPage markup. When an assistant answers a question about this service, the page has nothing structured to be cited from, so the citation goes to whoever wrote the answer block.
Add FAQPage schema for the questions the page answers (the answer must appear as visible text, not only in the markup) and HowTo for process content.
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The business is identified in structured datamedium
No Organization markup. This is what Google assembles a knowledge panel from — the box with your logo, name and links that appears beside branded searches — and what connects your site to your social profiles. Without it Google infers your identity from third parties instead of from you.
Add Organization JSON-LD with name, url, logo and sameAs links to your social profiles.
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Structured data presentmedium
No structured data. Google is reading your page as plain text and cannot qualify you for any rich result.
Add JSON-LD for Organization and your primary content type.
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Breadcrumbs are marked upmedium
No BreadcrumbList markup. Google replaces the raw URL in your listing with a readable breadcrumb trail when this is present, which is more legible and measurably more clickable — and it is one of the cheapest rich results to earn.
Add BreadcrumbList JSON-LD to every page below the homepage.
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The entity links out to its profileslow
No entity markup to attach profiles to.
Add sameAs URLs to the Google Business Profile, LinkedIn, X and any other profiles the business owns.
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Site-wide search is declaredlow
No WebSite markup. With a SearchAction it can give you a search box directly inside your Google listing for branded queries.
Add WebSite JSON-LD, with potentialAction/SearchAction if the site has its own search.
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Link previews are configured for X/Twitterlow
No twitter:card tags. Open Graph covers most platforms, but X falls back to a bare link without them, and a link with no image or title is measurably less likely to be opened.
Add twitter:card ("summary_large_image"), twitter:title and twitter:description.
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A curated summary is published for assistantslow
No /llms.txt. It is a short, plain-text map of what a site is and which pages matter — a convention some assistants read to decide what to quote, and cheap to publish. It is not yet a standard anyone is obliged to honour, so treat it as a low-cost bet rather than a requirement.
Publish /llms.txt: a heading, one paragraph describing the business, and a linked list of your most important pages.
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International targeting
Not applicable — this site publishes in a single language and declares no regional or translated versions, so hreflang annotations are not needed. Adding them to a single-language site does nothing.
–
Search Console connected
Not measured — not configured on this instance. Connecting Search Console adds what no crawl can see: the queries this site already appears for, where it ranks, and how many people click. It is read-only and can be disconnected at any time.
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Current search visibility
Not measured — ranking data is not configured on this instance.
✓
Homepage is indexable
Homepage is open to indexing.
✓
Mobile viewport declared
Mobile viewport is declared.
✓
Homepage title is present and well sized
Title is 53 characters.
✓
XML sitemap published
Sitemap found listing 268 URLs.
✓
Homepage meta description is present
Description is 156 characters.
✓
Homepage canonical is correct
Canonical points at this page.
✓
robots.txt does not block the site
robots.txt present and open to search engines.
✓
Canonicals point at indexable pages
Every canonical points at a page that is allowed to be indexed.
✓
Canonical targets are live pages
Canonical targets all return 200.
✓
Sitemap and page directives agree
No page is both listed in the sitemap and marked noindex.
✓
Structured data parses
All structured data blocks are valid JSON.
✓
Noindex directives are readable
No page relies on a directive Google is blocked from reading.
✓
Marked-up content qualifies for rich results
Every marked-up entity carries the properties Google requires.
✓
Most crawled pages are indexable
12 of 12 crawled page(s) (100%) can actually be indexed.
✓
No canonical chains
No canonical points at a page that then canonicals somewhere else.
✓
Sitemap lists canonical pages only
Every sitemap URL is its own canonical.
✓
AI assistants can cite this site
Every major assistant is allowed to read and cite these pages.
✓
Pages are close to the homepage
Every crawled page sits within four levels of the homepage (deepest: 4).
✓
Social preview configured
4 Open Graph tags found.
✓
URLs are readable
URLs use lowercase, hyphenated, extension-free paths.
✓
Content is not served behind query parameters
0 of 12 crawled URLs carry query parameters other than tracking tags.
✓
Page language declared
Language attribute present.
✓
Model-training access is stated
No model-training crawler is blocked, so this content may be used to train future models. This is a business decision rather than an SEO one, and it is separate from being cited in answers: refusing training does not remove you from AI results, and allowing it does not put you in them.

Content & structure

Whether pages are unique, linked and crawlable.

20 passed · 7 failed · 1 skipped

73%

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Every page is linked from somewherehigh
9 of 12 crawled pages had no internal link pointing at them. Search engines discover pages by following links, so an unlinked page is found late or not at all — and passes on none of its authority. This affects every checked page of 9 templates (/study-guide/administration/{slug}, /study-guide/drinking-water-treatment/{slug}, /study-guide/{slug}), covering up to 82 pages in your sitemap. Fixing the templates fixes all of them at once.
9 affected URLs
Link these from a relevant parent page, your navigation, or a hub page.
✕
Navigation promotes pages that earn moneymedium
11 link(s) appear on nearly every page — the site-wide navigation, which is where most internal authority is allocated. 3 of them point at legal, account or administrative pages, and 2 of those sit among the eight best-linked pages on the site — level with, or above, the pages you sell from. Nobody decides this: a crawler counts every footer link as an endorsement repeated on every page, while visitors ignore footers. Those pages must exist and should not be among the best-linked things you publish.
```
waterexamprep.com/privacy.php  1.9%  [utility]
waterexamprep.com/  1.9%
waterexamprep.com/study-guide  1.9%
waterexamprep.com/login.php  1.9%  [utility]
waterexamprep.com/about.php  1.9%
waterexamprep.com/faq.php  1.9%
waterexamprep.com/contact.php  1.9%
waterexamprep.com/terms.php  1.9%  [utility]
```
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Each page covers a distinct subjectmedium
1 pair(s) of pages appear to cover the same subject, judged from their titles and headings. Two pages competing for one query split the links and relevance that should accumulate on one, and Google alternates between them — so neither settles into a stable position. Confirm against Search Console, which shows exactly which page it chooses. Every page of this type that was checked has this fault, and your sitemap lists 9 pages built from the same template (/ca/exams/drinking-water/{slug}) — so this is most likely one template fix affecting up to 9 pages, not 1.
```
T1 Water Treatment Operator Exam | WaterExamPrep.com
   https://waterexamprep.com/ca/exams/drinking-water/treatment-t1/
   https://waterexamprep.com/tx/exams/drinking-water/class-d/
```
1 affected URL
- https://waterexamprep.com/ca/exams/drinking-water/treatment-t1/
Decide which page owns the subject. Merge the weaker one into it and redirect, or narrow each to a genuinely different question.
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Every page is linked from anothermedium
9 crawled page(s) are not linked from any other page we fetched. A page reachable only from a sitemap receives no internal authority at all, and is crawled rarely — it can rank, but it starts from nothing and stays there. This affects every checked page of 9 templates (/study-guide/drinking-water-treatment/{slug}, /study-guide/administration/{slug}, /study-guide/wastewater-treatment/{slug}), covering up to 82 pages in your sitemap. Fixing the templates fixes all of them at once.
```
waterexamprep.com/study-guide/collection-systems/collection-systems-cleaning-blockages
waterexamprep.com/study-guide/wastewater-treatment/wastewater-odor-control-septicity
waterexamprep.com/study-guide/drinking-water-treatment/fluoridation-fundamentals
waterexamprep.com/study-guide/fl/regulations-certification/florida-operator-certification-overview
waterexamprep.com/study-guide/administration/administration-operating-records-logs
waterexamprep.com/study-guide/pa/regulations-certification/pennsylvania-operator-classes-subclasses
```
9 affected URLs
Link them from a relevant hub page or from navigation, using the subject as the link text.

The writing is readablemedium

Median reading ease is 26.6 — very difficult. 10 page(s) score below 40, which is the range of academic and legal writing. That is correct for a terms page and costly on anything meant to sell, because the reader who bounces was the one who arrived.

  -7.0 (very difficult)  https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/fl/regulations-certification/florida-operator-certification-overview/
  10.8 (very difficult)  https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/chemical-feed/
  13.1 (very difficult)  https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/pa/regulations-certification/pennsylvania-operator-classes-subclasses/
  15.5 (very difficult)  https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/administration/administration-operating-records-logs/
  19.7 (very difficult)  https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/drinking-water-treatment/fluoridation-fundamentals/

Shorter sentences and plainer words in the pages that convert. Legal pages can stay as they are.

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Internal authority is spread, not pooledlow
One page receives more than half of all internal links found. That concentrates authority in one place while the rest of the site is starved of it.
Link deliberately to the pages you want to rank, not only to the same one from every template.
✕
A publisher is declared in structured datalow
No publisher in your structured data. It ties each page back to the organisation that stands behind it, which is what carries trust from your brand to an individual article.
Add a publisher property naming your Organization, with its logo.
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Content carries recent dates
Not measured — no page declares a publication or modification date, so how recently the site was maintained cannot be determined. That is normal for a brochure site and worth fixing for anything article-based.
✓
Page titles are unique
All 12 crawled pages have distinct titles.
✓
Pages have enough content
All 12 crawled pages carry substantial content.
✓
Every page has a meta description
2 of 12 crawled pages have no meta description.
2 affected URLs
- https://waterexamprep.com/ca/exams/drinking-water/treatment-t1/
- https://waterexamprep.com/tx/exams/drinking-water/class-d/
✓
Navigation is present on every page
Every crawled page carries at least three internal links, so navigation is consistently rendered.
✓
Pages are meaningfully different from each other
No two crawled pages share substantially the same text.
✓
No broken internal pages
All 12 crawled pages returned successfully.
✓
Pages carry more than their template
Across 12 page(s), the median page is 91% its own content and the rest navigation, footer and legal text.
✓
Missing pages return a real 404
No page answers 200 while telling the visitor nothing was found.
✓
Pages deliver what their titles promise
Every page's body covers the subject its title and heading announce.
✓
Meta descriptions are unique
All 10 descriptions found are distinct.
✓
Content identifies who wrote it
Authorship is declared.
✓
Links describe where they go
0 of 380 internal link(s) use text like 'click here' or no text at all.
✓
No phrase is repeated unnaturally
No phrase dominates a page's text.
✓
There is a route to who you are
An about or contact page is linked.
✓
One H1 per page
0 of 12 pages do not have exactly one H1 heading.
✓
No long redirect chains
No multi-step redirects found.
✓
Sitemap matches the real site
Sitemap lists 268 URLs; we reached 12 by crawling. 256 sitemap URLs were not linked from the pages we visited.
✓
No dead-end pages
Every crawled page links onward.
✓
Where internal authority goes
Internal links concentrate authority on the pages below, in order. This is the site's own ranking of itself, derived from how it links — read it against what the business actually sells, because search engines read it the same way. Only the crawled sample is modelled, so this describes the navigation rather than every page.
✓
What each page is about
The terms that distinguish each page from the others on this site — not the most frequent words, but the ones this page uses and the others do not. Read them as what a search engine would take the page to be about, and check that it matches what it is for.

Local business signals

What Google needs to place you in map results.

0 passed · 0 failed · 1 skipped

100%

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Local business signals
Not applicable — nothing on this site indicates a physical location customers visit: no address, phone link, opening hours, map or local business markup. Local search checks are skipped and do not affect the score. If you do serve customers from premises, publishing an address and phone number is the place to start.

Infrastructure

DNS, hosting and delivery configuration.

13 passed · 2 failed · 4 skipped

94%

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DNSSEC enabledlow
DNSSEC is not enabled, so DNS answers for your domain can't be cryptographically verified.
Enable DNSSEC at your DNS provider.
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CAA record restricts certificate issuancelow
No CAA record, so any certificate authority may issue certificates for your domain.
Publish a CAA record naming the certificate authority you use.
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Mail server IP is not blacklisted
Not checked: the blocklists declined queries from this resolver, so reputation could not be confirmed either way. This is excluded from your score rather than guessed at.
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Certificate history reviewed
Not measured — the certificate transparency log did not answer in time.
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Server log analysis
Not measured — no log file supplied. Server logs are the only source that shows what Googlebot actually fetched rather than what it could fetch: which pages it spends its crawl on, which it has never asked for, and what it receives when it does.
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Whole-site analysis
Not measured — no whole-site crawl has been run for this domain. The audit above reasons from a sample of pages chosen to cover each template, which describes how the site is built. It cannot say how many of the site's pages are indexable, which templates are thin across every instance, or what sits too deep to be crawled — those are counts, and a sample cannot produce one.
✓
Redundant nameservers
2 nameserver(s) configured.
✓
No subdomain can be taken over
Checked 0 subdomain(s); none point at a cloud service that has released them.
✓
No lookalike domain can send mail as your brand
We generated and checked 60 plausible misspellings and variants of your domain. None is registered.
✓
No unbounded URL spaces
No filter, session or calendar URLs that would generate an unbounded space were found.
✓
Pages are reached without redirect chains
Every page was reached directly or in a single hop.
✓
Crawled URLs return content
0 of 12 URL(s) followed during this crawl returned a redirect or an error (0%).
✓
Certificate is not shared with unrelated domains
Your certificate covers only your own domain.
✓
Sitemap files are within Google's limits
Every sitemap file is within the 50,000 URL and 50 MB limits.
✓
Sitemap lastmod dates are meaningful
254 of 268 sitemap URL(s) carry a lastmod date across 6 distinct value(s).
✓
Internal links pass authority
0 internal link(s) are marked nofollow.
✓
Software versions are not disclosed
No version numbers advertised in response headers.
✓
Hosting network identified
Served from AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc.), announced in 104.21.64.0/20 — a block of 4,096 addresses.
✓
What this audit examined
12 page(s) were examined, chosen to cover 11 of the 69 distinct page templates found across 268 known URLs. Pages are sampled by template rather than in sitemap order, because the first pages of a sitemap are usually all the same kind — a sample of one template would describe that template rather than the site. Findings below therefore apply to the templates listed, and a fault in a template is normally a fault on every page built from it.

Off-page authority

Who links to this site, with what text, and how that compares.

0 passed · 0 failed · 1 skipped

100%

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Off-page profile
Not measured — off-page data is not configured on this instance.

What Google's renderer sees

The site loaded in a real browser, the way a visitor and a crawler get it.

12 passed · 1 failed

94%

✕
Tap targets are big enough to hitmedium
24 of 31 tappable element(s) are smaller than 48x48 pixels, and 2 sit closer than 8 pixels to a neighbour. On a phone that means links and buttons that are hard to hit without zooming, and mis-taps on a checkout or contact button cost conversions directly.
```
Privacy Policy (89x16)
Accept all (336x43)
Analytics only (336x43)
Reject non-essential (336x43)
WaterExamPrep (146x32)
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Give tappable elements at least 48x48 CSS pixels and 8 pixels of spacing — usually padding on the link rather than a bigger font.
✓
Content is in the HTML, not built by JavaScript
The served HTML contains 761 words and the rendered page 761 — the content is present before JavaScript runs.
✓
The mobile page matches the desktop page
What the server sends a phone matches what it sends a desktop browser.
✓
JavaScript does not rewrite indexing directives
The canonical and robots directives are the same before and after JavaScript runs.
✓
Largest Contentful Paint under 2.5s (lab)
Measured 1.5s on a simulated phone viewport. Google's threshold for 'good' is 2.5s.
✓
Navigation links are crawlable without JavaScript
15 links in the served HTML, 28 after rendering — navigation is discoverable.
✓
Layout stays stable while loading (lab)
Cumulative Layout Shift measured at 0.000 (good is 0.1 or less).
✓
No JavaScript errors on load
The page loaded without JavaScript errors.
✓
All page resources load successfully
Every image, script and stylesheet loaded.
✓
The page fits the screen
The page fits the mobile viewport with no sideways scrolling.
✓
No excessive JavaScript blocking
0 long JavaScript task(s) blocked the main thread while loading.
✓
Body text is legible on a phone
0 of 87 text block(s) render below 12px on a mobile viewport.
✓
Reasonable number of requests
The page made 2 network requests to load.

Scan details

Final URL	https://waterexamprep.com/
Host IPs	104.21.71.212, 172.67.171.189, 2606:4700:3035::ac43:abbd, 2606:4700:3036::6815:47d4
Pages crawled	12 of 12 attempted
Sitemap URLs	268
Nameservers	elmo.ns.cloudflare.com, simone.ns.cloudflare.com
Mail servers	route1.mx.cloudflare.net, route2.mx.cloudflare.net, route3.mx.cloudflare.net
DKIM selectors	none found
Mail server IPs	162.159.205.11, 162.159.205.13, 162.159.205.12
TLS	TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 · issued by Google Trust Services
Detected stack	custom / Cloudflare / Cloudflare · Google Tag Manager
Browser render	Camoufox (stealth Firefox) · 5.5s · 761 words, 28 links after JavaScript

12 URLs crawled

https://waterexamprep.com/
https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/chemical-feed/
https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/administration/administration-operating-records-logs/
https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/wastewater-treatment/wastewater-odor-control-septicity/
https://waterexamprep.com/ca/exams/drinking-water/treatment-t1/
https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/distribution-systems/distribution-systems-storage-demand/
https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/collection-systems/collection-systems-cleaning-blockages/
https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/pa/regulations-certification/pennsylvania-operator-classes-subclasses/
https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/safety/safety-electrical-tools-equipment/
https://waterexamprep.com/tx/exams/drinking-water/class-d/
https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/drinking-water-treatment/fluoridation-fundamentals/
https://waterexamprep.com/study-guide/fl/regulations-certification/florida-operator-certification-overview/

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Your position

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The most unusual thing you fail

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How your page actually renders

Your plan

1. Fix email authentication

2. Make the structured data qualify

3. Point the site's own authority at the pages that earn

4. Complete the security headers

5. Correct caching and compression at the origin

6. Write the titles and descriptions

7. Fix the page on a phone

8. Harden DNS and hosting

9. Remaining individual fixes

10. Decide whether AI assistants may cite you

11. Show who stands behind the content