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An independent audit of ca.gov, measured by Adnave on November 13, 2026. We read 12 pages of the site as a search engine first receives them and ran 53 checks. Organic health is 87 out of 100. The site lets the main AI assistants read it.
Growth Navigator · ca.gov
8 opportunities to improve
12 pages read in full, 30 more links checked
Organic health
out of 100
Ads readiness
out of 100
Our suggested order: biggest obstacles first, quickest first among equals. The effect of each fix is not measured. 3 take minutes.
Step 1 · Organic
Everything here was observed on the site. Fixing it removes a known obstacle; no one can promise a specific ranking in return.
Observed · AdnaveBot's reading of 12 pages on 2026-11-13 · each finding is what we saw on those pages; “what to do”, the score and the order are our judgment
Without one, Google picks its own text for your search result, and it is often a poor choice.
What to do: Add a description of 70 to 160 characters that says what the page offers and why to click.
How to fix this: How to write page titles and meta descriptionsStructured data found: GovernmentOrganization.
What to do: Add schema.org markup for the organisation, plus the type that fits the page: Product, Service, Article, FAQPage or SoftwareApplication.
Paste inside the <head> of the page. Fill in the name and logo address.
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "ca.gov",
"url": "https://www.ca.gov",
"logo": "https://www.ca.gov/your-logo.png"
}
</script>Google will choose its own snippet for these pages, often a poor one.
What to do: Add a description of 70 to 160 characters to each page.
Pages under about 200 words rarely rank for anything.
What to do: Expand these pages with useful detail, merge them into a stronger page, or hide them from search.
Without a width and height, the page shifts as each image arrives. That is the layout shift Core Web Vitals penalise.
What to do: Add width and height attributes to every image tag.
How to fix this: Image SEO: alt text, file size and layout shiftAssistants quote pages that state a question and answer it plainly. This page has no question-style headings.
What to do: Add a short section of real customer questions as headings, each answered in two or three sentences.
How to fix this: AI search readiness: how to be found by AI assistantsHeadings are the page's outline. When levels are skipped (a heading 2 followed by a heading 4), screen readers and search engines get a broken outline.
What to do: Use heading levels in order: one H1, then H2 for sections, H3 inside those. Style size with CSS, not by choosing a different level.
An optional plain-text summary of the site for AI assistants. It is cheap to add, but there is no evidence yet that it changes how often a site is cited.
What to do: Optionally add /llms.txt with a short description of the site and links to its most important pages.
Optional. Save as llms.txt at the top level of the site. Edit the first lines to describe what you do.
# California State Portal | CA.gov > One or two sentences about what this site offers. ## Pages - [California State Portal | CA.gov](https://www.ca.gov/) - [Translate this website | CA.gov](https://www.ca.gov/translate/) - [Services | CA.gov](https://www.ca.gov/services/) - [Departments | CA.gov](https://www.ca.gov/departments/) - [About California | CA.gov](https://www.ca.gov/about-california/) - [Get help | CA.gov](https://www.ca.gov/support/) - [Find state services | CA.gov](https://www.ca.gov/servicefinder/) - [Apply for a DL, ID or REAL ID | CA.gov](https://www.ca.gov/departments/220/services/1194/) - [Apply for birth certificate | CA.gov](https://www.ca.gov/departments/176/services/52/) - [Check your tax refund status | CA.gov](https://www.ca.gov/departments/236/services/33/) - [Traffic tickets | CA.gov](https://www.ca.gov/departments/193/services/15/) - [Sales and use tax permits, licenses, or accounts | CA.gov](https://www.ca.gov/departments/287/services/25/)
“California State Portal | CA.gov”
“Find government services and information”
Subheadings help readers and search engines scan the page.
The page gives search engines real content to work with.
Alt text helps image search and screen-reader users.
No links on the page use wording like “click here”.
Without the doctype line, browsers fall back to an old rendering mode and layouts can break.
Without it, accented letters and symbols can show as garbled text, in the browser and in search results.
Search engines treat this kind of redirect as a weak signal and visitors see a flash of the old page. It also breaks the back button.
A field with no label is announced to screen-reader users as just “edit text”, and placeholder text disappears as soon as someone types. Clear labels also raise form completion.
An icon-only link or button with no text is invisible to screen readers and tells search engines nothing about where it leads.
Visitors and search engines get a secure connection.
Nothing on the page blocks it from being indexed.
The page declares a mobile viewport.
https://www.ca.gov/
Search engines and screen readers know which language to expect.
Search engines have instructions for crawling the site.
Search engines have a list of your pages.
1 structured data block found.
Visitors who type http:// are moved to https automatically.
Both forms end at www.ca.gov.
A made-up address correctly returns a 404, so search engines can drop dead pages.
Browsers are told to always use the secure connection and not to guess file types.
Images, scripts and styles all load over https.
That is quick.
A reasonable size for the page itself, before images.
Scripts are loaded without delaying what visitors see.
The server shrinks the page before sending it.
Shared links show a title, description and image on Facebook, WhatsApp, LinkedIn and others.
Links shared on X show a rich preview.
Your icon appears in browser tabs and search results.
Nothing in robots.txt shuts out the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Gemini.
Every internal link we followed loads.
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| Page | Response | Time | Words |
|---|---|---|---|
California State Portal | CA.gov https://www.ca.gov/ | 200 | 0.20s | 337 |
Translate this website | CA.gov https://www.ca.gov/translate/ | 200 | 0.11s | 164 |
Services | CA.gov https://www.ca.gov/services/ | 200 | 0.12s | 319 |
Departments | CA.gov https://www.ca.gov/departments/ | 200 | 0.17s | 164 |
About California | CA.gov https://www.ca.gov/about-california/ | 200 | 0.07s | 517 |
Get help | CA.gov https://www.ca.gov/support/ | 200 | 0.07s | 722 |
Find state services | CA.gov https://www.ca.gov/servicefinder/ | 200 | 0.06s | 267 |
Apply for a DL, ID or REAL ID | CA.gov https://www.ca.gov/departments/220/services/1194/ | 200 | 0.10s | 302 |
Apply for birth certificate | CA.gov https://www.ca.gov/departments/176/services/52/ | 200 | 0.09s | 390 |
Check your tax refund status | CA.gov https://www.ca.gov/departments/236/services/33/ | 200 | 0.06s | 178 |
Traffic tickets | CA.gov https://www.ca.gov/departments/193/services/15/ | 200 | 0.08s | 318 |
Sales and use tax permits, licenses, or accounts | CA.gov https://www.ca.gov/departments/287/services/25/ | 200 | 0.07s | 426 |
Step 2 · Ads
Ads only pay off when the site can measure what they bring in. We look for tracking tags in the page code; tags that load later, through a consent banner or tag manager, will not show up here.
Google Ads cannot learn which clicks turn into customers without it.
What to do: Create a conversion action in Google Ads and add the tag, or import conversions from Analytics.
How to fix this: What to set up before you spend on adsFacebook and Instagram ads need the Pixel to track sales and build audiences.
What to do: Create a Pixel in Meta Events Manager and add it to every page.
How to fix this: What to set up before you spend on adsTikTok ads need the Pixel to measure results and optimize delivery.
What to do: Create a Pixel in TikTok Ads Manager and add it to every page.
How to fix this: What to set up before you spend on adsGoogle Analytics is on the page.
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