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An SEO audit of six web properties on four different stacks, five of them with no analytics

Multi-campus education group

By Asif Mulani, who built Frappe Sheets · Published

In numbers

Figures from the live sites.

Findings, all reproduced live
40
Findings, all reproduced live
Properties audited
6
Properties audited
Carrying no analytics at all
5 of 6
Carrying no analytics at all
Heaviest mobile page found
45 MB
Heaviest mobile page found

Outcome

Forty findings, each backed by evidence you can reproduce, ranked by how much it costs to leave each one unfixed.

The situation

A strong brand was being outranked by admission aggregators when parents searched for its own campuses and fees. Nobody was in charge of the websites, and four new campuses were about to launch with the same gaps.

What we did

  1. 01Found that the headline statistics showed as zero in the server HTML, because the count-up animation only ran on scroll
  2. 02Checked every brand domain in Google's index and found three that returned errors, one of them unregistered
  3. 03Traced the analytics gap to an enquiry form that wasn't capturing any campaign parameters
Two more things we did
  • Audited against the live site rather than a crawl export, reproducing each finding before writing it down
  • Measured largest contentful paint against four named competitors in a single run, under the same conditions

Stack

  • Technical SEO
  • Core Web Vitals
  • Google Business Profile
  • GA4
  • GEO and AEO

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