OAKMONTDevelopment bench

SEO and page speed, read against the line

A strip measures one page: search basics, page weight and whether it fits a phone at once, then the lab run of largest paint, layout shift and blocking time. Every reading sits on its own rule against a line someone published, and the table below names that someone.

No projected traffic and no ranking promise. Where a reading is under its line, the strip says how far, and which line on the sheet moves it at the price the catalogue sets today.

The readings and their lines
ReadingThe lineWhere the line comes fromWhat on the sheet would move this reading
Search / SEOWhat a search engine reads on the page, and the lab's search score. Each missing basic is one priced line on the sheet.
search basicsread from the page≥ 80/100OAKMONT's own line: 100 less each missing basic, weighted by what it costs a listing
  • Write a page title that names the business and what this page offers$2.04
  • Shorten the page title to under 60 characters$1.35
  • Write a meta description of one or two sentences for this page$1.86
  • and 6 more, one per missing basic
lab search scorelab run≥ 90/100OAKMONT's own line on Lighthouse's search scoreA score made of the readings above; it moves when they do.
Speed, weight and fitHow fast the page paints, how still it holds, what it weighs and whether it fits a phone.
largest paintlab run≤ 2.5 sGoogle's Core Web Vitals threshold for a good page: largest contentful paint 2.5 s or less
  • Defer the scripts that block the first paint and size the hero image$2.04
layout shiftlab run≤ 0.1Google's Core Web Vitals threshold for a good page: cumulative layout shift 0.1 or less
  • Give every image and embed its size so nothing jumps$1.56
blocking timelab run≤ 200 msLighthouse's line for total blocking time, 200 ms or less; it stands in for INP, which only field data from real visitors can measure
  • Split or defer the heavy script on first load$1.35
page weightread from the page≤ 2 MBOAKMONT's own line: the page budget the publish gate holds every release to
  • Compress the images over 200 KB and drop the unused stylesheet$1.86
mobileread from the pagefits and zooms on a phoneOAKMONT's own line: a viewport meta that lets a phone fit and zoom the page (WCAG 1.4.4, 1.4.10)
  • Add the viewport meta and allow zoom$1.08
lab performancelab run≥ 90/100OAKMONT's own line on Lighthouse's performance scoreA score made of the readings above; it moves when they do.

Each sheet line is priced by its characters; a sheet costs at least $29, once. How a marked change is priced

Measure a page

Paste an address. Search basics come back in about two seconds; the lab run lands when the lab answers, and says so when it cannot.

Free, twenty pages a day from one address. Nothing to sign up for.

Ruling the strip...