Counter-examples

Pages that look finished to a visitor and score badly for the machines that decide whether you get recommended. A person scrolling on a phone sees a complete layout; an AI crawler downloads the HTML and reads something else — missing metadata, a heading stuffed with CSS, a canonical that points at the wrong URL, or a shell that only fills in after JavaScript runs.

Open any example below, then paste the URL into Site Audit. Each page is a known defect, so the score and the findings should match the description on the card. These URLs stay out of the search index on purpose; they exist so the rubric can be checked against real markup instead of a screenshot.

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Main page counter-example

Our own homepage, built so an AI crawler can barely read it. A visitor sees the finished page; the HTML a crawler downloads is a shell with the defects Site Audit is meant to catch.

Open the main page counter-example

More counter-examples

Each of these is a single, known defect. They stay out of the search index on purpose — Site Audit fetches the URL directly, so you can see the finding without teaching Google a broken page. Use them the way a test fixture is used: one URL, one expected code, no ambiguity about whether the rubric drifted. The control pages that must stay clean live under the same fixtures directory; they are not listed here because they are not counter-examples.