Speed Insights
Grade A
95% performance
https://nyt-sudoku.net
LCP
812ms
Largest paint
TBT
196ms
Blocking time
CLS
0.000
Layout shift
86
out of 100
100
out of 100
110/110 rule points
75
out of 100
54/72 rule points
78
out of 100
62/80 rule points
91
out of 100
100/110 rule points
Category point breakdown
Biggest score-losing checks
Add common public security headers
Why this needs attention
Several basic browser protection headers were not visible.
These headers reduce avoidable browser-side risk and show a baseline of care before launch.
Recommended correction
Evidence
Detected 0 of 5 common public security controls. Present: none. Missing: strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, frame protection (x-frame-options or content-security-policy frame-ancestors), referrer-policy.
Priority
Priority 5: 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 3 violation rule(s), including 1 serious or critical rule(s). Top rules: aria-required-children (1), landmark-unique (1), region (2).
Priority
Priority 5: fix before sharing the page publicly.
Affected elements
Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children
Fix any of the following: Element has children which are not allowed: button[aria-label]
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination
Fix any of the following: The landmark must have a unique aria-label, aria-labelledby, or title to make landmarks distinguishable
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Fix any of the following: Some page content is not contained by landmarks
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Fix any of the following: Some page content is not contained by landmarks
Fix Prompt
Add trust signals
Why this needs attention
The page does not expose detectable proof, customer, review, security, or credibility signals.
Trust signals reduce hesitation when strangers see the product for the first time.
Recommended correction
Evidence
Detected 0 trust-signal keyword occurrence(s).
Priority
Priority 16: lower-risk cleanup after urgent launch blockers.
Fix Prompt
SEO / AEO
Severity mix: 1 critical, 7 high, 3 medium, 1 low. Coverage: 0 review and 1 not applicable.
No failed checks in this category.
Security
Severity mix: 2 critical, 3 high, 0 medium, 0 low. Coverage: 0 review and 1 not applicable.
Accessibility
Severity mix: 0 critical, 3 high, 5 medium, 0 low. Coverage: 0 review and 1 not applicable.
Design
Severity mix: 0 critical, 3 high, 6 medium, 2 low. Coverage: 0 review and 0 not applicable.
SEO / AEO
Severity mix: 1 critical, 7 high, 3 medium, 1 low. Coverage: 0 review and 1 not applicable.
No failed checks in this category.
Accessibility
Severity mix: 0 critical, 3 high, 5 medium, 0 low. Coverage: 0 review and 1 not applicable.
Security
Severity mix: 2 critical, 3 high, 0 medium, 0 low. Coverage: 0 review and 1 not applicable.
Design
Severity mix: 0 critical, 3 high, 6 medium, 2 low. Coverage: 0 review and 0 not applicable.
Failed checks
These checks need attention.
Common security headers
Why this needs attention
Several basic browser protection headers were not visible.
These headers reduce avoidable browser-side risk and show a baseline of care before launch.
Recommended correction
Evidence
Detected 0 of 5 common public security controls. Present: none. Missing: strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, frame protection (x-frame-options or content-security-policy frame-ancestors), referrer-policy. 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.
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 3 violation rule(s), including 1 serious or critical rule(s). Top rules: aria-required-children (1), landmark-unique (1), region (2). 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
Certain ARIA roles must contain particular children
Fix any of the following: Element has children which are not allowed: button[aria-label]
Landmarks should have a unique role or role/label/title (i.e. accessible name) combination
Fix any of the following: The landmark must have a unique aria-label, aria-labelledby, or title to make landmarks distinguishable
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Fix any of the following: Some page content is not contained by landmarks
All page content should be contained by landmarks
Fix any of the following: Some page content is not contained by landmarks
Fix Prompt
Trust signals
Why this needs attention
The page does not expose detectable proof, customer, review, security, or credibility signals.
Trust signals reduce hesitation when strangers see the product for the first time.
Recommended correction
Evidence
Detected 0 trust-signal keyword occurrence(s). Failed: earned 0 of 10 points.
How FreeScan evaluates this check (opens in a new tab)Priority
Priority 16: lower-risk cleanup after urgent launch blockers.
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
The exact URL appears in the fetched sitemap with lastmod 2026-08-29T18:06:16.697Z.
Structured data
Semantic schema score 75/100. Detected 3 JSON-LD block(s), 0 parse error(s), 15 graph node(s), and types Answer, FAQPage, Game, Offer, Question, WebApplication, WebSite. The schema type matches the detected page role.
Public or paywalled content
Structured data marks this content as accessible for free.
Entity clarity
Entity alignment scored 100/100 for “NYT Sudoku”. Title/H1 token overlap is 100%; description match detected; identity schema detected.
Answer-ready visible text
Answerability scored 85/100 from 2493 main-content words, 43 concise answer block(s), 24 question heading(s), 50 definition(s), 0 list(s), and 0 table(s).
Authorship and accountability
Authorship is not a universal requirement for the detected home page role.
Published or updated date
Freshness metadata is contextual for the detected home page role.
Supporting-source links
Supporting sources are contextual for the detected home page role and do not affect readiness.
Rendered content availability
Rendered audit completed with 215 visible text element(s).
Synthetic search-agent reachability
8 of 8 completed 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: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
OpenAIOpenAI model trainingGPTBotModel training
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
OpenAIChatGPT user fetchesChatGPT-UserUser-requested fetch
Robots: not applicable to user-requested fetches
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
AnthropicClaude model trainingClaudeBotModel training
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
AnthropicClaude searchClaude-SearchBotAI search
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
AnthropicClaude user fetchesClaude-UserUser-requested fetch
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
GoogleGoogle Search and AI featuresGooglebotSearch and discovery
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: index, follow; Googlebot meta: index, follow, max-video-preview:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1
GoogleGemini data use and groundingGoogle-ExtendedData-use policy control
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
MicrosoftBing and CopilotBingbotSearch and discovery
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
PerplexityPerplexity searchPerplexityBotAI search
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
PerplexityPerplexity user fetchesPerplexity-UserUser-requested fetch
Robots: not applicable to user-requested fetches
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
AppleSiri, Spotlight, and Safari searchApplebotSearch and discovery
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
AppleApple foundation-model trainingApplebot-ExtendedData-use policy control
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
Mistral AIMistral searchMistralAI-IndexAI search
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
Mistral AIMistral user fetchesMistralAI-UserUser-requested fetch
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
MetaMeta AI model and product datameta-externalagentModel training
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
MetaMeta AI user fetchesmeta-externalfetcherUser-requested fetch
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
AmazonAmazon model trainingAmazonbotModel training
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
AmazonAlexa and Rufus searchAmzn-SearchBotAI search
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
AmazonAlexa user fetchesAmzn-UserUser-requested fetch
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: reachable · HTTP 200 · 100% parity
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
Common CrawlOpen web datasetsCCBotModel training
Robots: allowed by * allow: / · line 2
Probe: not tested for this control
Controls: robots meta: index, follow
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.
