Speed Insights
Grade B
86% performance
https://www.bbc.co.uk
From https://bbc.co.uk
LCP
804ms
Largest paint
TBT
465ms
Blocking time
CLS
0.000
Layout shift
86
out of 100
97
out of 100
108/111 rule points
100
out of 100
76/76 rule points
81
out of 100
76/94 rule points
67
out of 100
74/110 rule points
Category point breakdown
Biggest score-losing checks
Improve AI search and crawler readiness
Why this needs attention
One or more AI discovery, user-fetch, indexability, snippet, synthetic reachability, or sitemap signals need attention.
AI search systems need crawlable, reachable, indexable, and quotable public content. Training and data-use choices remain neutral publisher preferences.
Recommended correction
Evidence
FreeScan.app reached the public page with HTTP 200. robots.txt blocks OAI-SearchBot, Bingbot, PerplexityBot, and 1 more from AI search or discovery for this page path. Synthetic or robots checks block Amzn-User from user-requested fetches. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, and 4 more are explicit training or data-use opt-outs and do not reduce the AEO score. AEO crawler readiness is 78%: discovery 28/45, index and snippet eligibility 25/25, synthetic reachability 20/20, sitemap freshness 5/10.
Priority
Priority 2: fix before sharing the page publicly.
Fix Prompt
Fix rendered axe accessibility violations
Why this needs attention
The rendered page has accessibility rule violations detected by axe-core.
axe checks the actual browser-rendered page, so these issues can affect people using keyboards, screen readers, or other assistive technology.
Recommended correction
Evidence
axe found 1 violation rule(s), including 1 serious or critical rule(s). Top rules: aria-hidden-focus (1).
Priority
Priority 5: fix before sharing the page publicly.
Affected elements
ARIA hidden element must not be focusable or contain focusable elements
Fix all of the following: Focusable content should have tabindex="-1" or be removed from the DOM
Fix Prompt
Fix rendered layout ergonomics
Why this needs attention
The browser-rendered page has layout or tap-target issues.
Horizontal overflow and tiny tap targets make the page feel broken on real devices, especially for mobile visitors.
Recommended correction
Evidence
Horizontal overflow: 0px. Small tap targets: 77.
Priority
Priority 13: fix during launch polish.
Affected elements
Skip to content
Accessibility Help
BBC Homepage
News headlines
Fix Prompt
Improve rendered speed signals
Why this needs attention
The browser-rendered page shows slow or heavy speed signals.
Slow pages lose impatient visitors and make every SEO, social, and paid-traffic visit work harder.
Recommended correction
Evidence
DOMContentLoaded: 588ms. Load complete: 2015ms. First contentful paint: 484ms. Resources: 94. Scripts: 55. Images: 37. Third-party origins: 2. Transfer: not available.
Priority
Priority 14: fix during launch polish.
Fix Prompt
Balance landing page copy
Why this needs attention
The page has too little or too much detectable text for a useful launch page.
Too little copy can leave visitors confused; too much copy can bury the value proposition.
Recommended correction
Evidence
Detected about 3548 visible word(s). General page range: 80-1800 words.
Priority
Priority 21: lower-risk cleanup after urgent launch blockers.
Fix Prompt
SEO / AEO
Severity mix: 1 critical, 7 high, 3 medium, 1 low.
Security
Severity mix: 2 critical, 3 high, 0 medium, 0 low.
No failed checks in this category.
Accessibility
Severity mix: 0 critical, 3 high, 5 medium, 0 low.
Design
Severity mix: 0 critical, 3 high, 6 medium, 2 low.
SEO / AEO
Severity mix: 1 critical, 7 high, 3 medium, 1 low.
Accessibility
Severity mix: 0 critical, 3 high, 5 medium, 0 low.
Security
Severity mix: 2 critical, 3 high, 0 medium, 0 low.
No failed checks in this category.
Design
Severity mix: 0 critical, 3 high, 6 medium, 2 low.
Failed checks
These checks need attention.
Crawler access
Why this needs attention
One or more AI discovery, user-fetch, indexability, snippet, synthetic reachability, or sitemap signals need attention.
AI search systems need crawlable, reachable, indexable, and quotable public content. Training and data-use choices remain neutral publisher preferences.
Recommended correction
Evidence
FreeScan.app reached the public page with HTTP 200. robots.txt blocks OAI-SearchBot, Bingbot, PerplexityBot, and 1 more from AI search or discovery for this page path. Synthetic or robots checks block Amzn-User from user-requested fetches. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, and 4 more are explicit training or data-use opt-outs and do not reduce the AEO score. AEO crawler readiness is 78%: discovery 28/45, index and snippet eligibility 25/25, synthetic reachability 20/20, sitemap freshness 5/10. Failed: earned 11 of 14 points from partial coverage.
How FreeScan evaluates this check (opens in a new tab)Priority
Priority 2: fix before sharing the page publicly.
Fix Prompt
Rendered axe accessibility violations
Why this needs attention
The rendered page has accessibility rule violations detected by axe-core.
axe checks the actual browser-rendered page, so these issues can affect people using keyboards, screen readers, or other assistive technology.
Recommended correction
Evidence
axe found 1 violation rule(s), including 1 serious or critical rule(s). Top rules: aria-hidden-focus (1). Failed: earned 0 of 18 points.
How FreeScan evaluates this check (opens in a new tab)Priority
Priority 5: fix before sharing the page publicly.
Affected elements
ARIA hidden element must not be focusable or contain focusable elements
Fix all of the following: Focusable content should have tabindex="-1" or be removed from the DOM
Fix Prompt
Text density
Why this needs attention
The page has too little or too much detectable text for a useful launch page.
Too little copy can leave visitors confused; too much copy can bury the value proposition.
Recommended correction
Evidence
Detected about 3548 visible word(s). General page range: 80-1800 words. Failed: earned 0 of 10 points.
How FreeScan evaluates this check (opens in a new tab)Priority
Priority 21: lower-risk cleanup after urgent launch blockers.
Fix Prompt
Spacing consistency
Why this needs attention
The page exposes few consistent spacing signals in class or inline styles.
Consistent spacing helps the page feel deliberate and easier to scan.
Recommended correction
Evidence
Detected 0 spacing class/style signal(s). Failed: earned 0 of 7 points.
How FreeScan evaluates this check (opens in a new tab)Priority
Priority 25: lower-risk cleanup after urgent launch blockers.
Fix Prompt
Rendered speed signals
Why this needs attention
The browser-rendered page shows slow or heavy speed signals.
Slow pages lose impatient visitors and make every SEO, social, and paid-traffic visit work harder.
Recommended correction
Evidence
DOMContentLoaded: 588ms. Load complete: 2015ms. First contentful paint: 484ms. Resources: 94. Scripts: 55. Images: 37. Third-party origins: 2. Transfer: not available. Failed: earned 0 of 10 points.
How FreeScan evaluates this check (opens in a new tab)Priority
Priority 14: fix during launch polish.
Fix Prompt
Rendered layout ergonomics
Why this needs attention
The browser-rendered page has layout or tap-target issues.
Horizontal overflow and tiny tap targets make the page feel broken on real devices, especially for mobile visitors.
Recommended correction
Evidence
Horizontal overflow: 0px. Small tap targets: 77. Failed: earned 0 of 9 points.
How FreeScan evaluates this check (opens in a new tab)Priority
Priority 13: fix during launch polish.
Affected elements
Skip to content
Accessibility Help
BBC Homepage
News headlines
Fix Prompt
Page-level AEO readiness
Shared eligibility and content signals that affect every search and answer agent.
Index and citation eligibility
No general noindex directive was detected.
Snippet and answer controls
No general nosnippet or max-snippet:0 control was detected.
Canonical alignment
The canonical resolves to the scanned public URL.
Sitemap coverage and freshness
A sitemap index was found; this safe scan did not recursively fetch child sitemaps.
Structured data
Detected 1 JSON-LD block(s), 0 parse error(s), and types CollectionPage, ImageObject, ItemList, NewsMediaOrganization.
Public or paywalled content
No isAccessibleForFree structured-data value was detected.
Entity clarity
Detected 3 of 3 core identity signals across the title, description, and H1.
Answer-ready visible text
Detected 3548 visible words and 47 audience, use-case, pricing, or integration signals.
Authorship and accountability
No author meta value or structured-data author was detected.
Published or updated date
No datePublished or dateModified value was detected in structured data.
Supporting-source links
Detected 39 external source or reference link(s); link quality still requires editorial review.
Rendered content availability
Rendered audit completed with 399 visible text element(s).
Synthetic search-agent reachability
5 of 8 search/discovery User-Agent probes returned reachable content.
Optional LLM-readable summary
No llms.txt file was found; this is optional and does not reduce core AEO readiness.
OpenAIChatGPT searchOAI-SearchBotAI search
Robots: blocked by oai-searchbot disallow: / · line 157
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
OpenAIOpenAI model trainingGPTBotModel training
Robots: blocked by gptbot disallow: / · line 136
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
OpenAIChatGPT user fetchesChatGPT-UserUser-requested fetch
Robots: not applicable to user-requested fetches
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
AnthropicClaude model trainingClaudeBotModel training
Robots: blocked by claudebot disallow: / · line 112
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
AnthropicClaude searchClaude-SearchBotAI search
Robots: allowed
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
AnthropicClaude user fetchesClaude-UserUser-requested fetch
Robots: allowed
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
GoogleGoogle Search and AI featuresGooglebotSearch and discovery
Robots: allowed
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
GoogleGemini data use and groundingGoogle-ExtendedData-use policy control
Robots: blocked by google-extended disallow: / · line 145
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
MicrosoftBing and CopilotBingbotSearch and discovery
Robots: allowed
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
PerplexityPerplexity searchPerplexityBotAI search
Robots: blocked by perplexitybot disallow: / · line 148
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
PerplexityPerplexity user fetchesPerplexity-UserUser-requested fetch
Robots: not applicable to user-requested fetches
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
AppleSiri, Spotlight, and Safari searchApplebotSearch and discovery
Robots: allowed
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
AppleApple foundation-model trainingApplebot-ExtendedData-use policy control
Robots: blocked by applebot-extended disallow: / · line 133
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
Mistral AIMistral searchMistralAI-IndexAI search
Robots: allowed
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
Mistral AIMistral user fetchesMistralAI-UserUser-requested fetch
Robots: allowed
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
MetaMeta AI model and product datameta-externalagentModel training
Robots: blocked by meta-externalagent disallow: / · line 154
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
MetaMeta AI user fetchesmeta-externalfetcherUser-requested fetch
Robots: allowed
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
AmazonAmazon model trainingAmazonbotModel training
Robots: blocked by amazonbot disallow: / · line 97
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
AmazonAlexa and Rufus searchAmzn-SearchBotAI search
Robots: blocked by amzn-searchbot disallow: / · line 199
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
AmazonAlexa user fetchesAmzn-UserUser-requested fetch
Robots: blocked by amzn-user disallow: / · line 202
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
Common CrawlOpen web datasetsCCBotModel training
Robots: blocked by ccbot disallow: / · line 103
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: max-image-preview:large; X-Robots-Tag: bingbot: noarchive
Ready combines robots policy, a bounded synthetic User-Agent fetch, indexability, and snippet eligibility. Synthetic probes do not prove vendor-origin traffic. Purple preference states are training or data-use choices and do not lower the AEO score.
The image refreshes from FreeScan after a completed rescan. Clicking it always opens the newest public report saved for this exact scanned URL.
Scan evidence is included as untrusted data. The implementation brief instructs agents to verify findings before editing and to avoid destructive or speculative changes.
