vellum.club
Vellum — A premium private club for people with full lives.
1 failed · 4 warnings · 23 passed
Audited Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:30:57 GMT · https://vellum.club/
Meta & Head
22.2/25
Title, description, canonical, social tags — what search engines read first.
Canonical URLmedium impactlow effort
No <link rel="canonical"> found
When the same page is reachable at several URLs — tracking parameters, trailing-slash variants, http vs https — search engines may split ranking signals across the duplicates. A canonical tag names the one version that should get all the credit. Add <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.example.com/page/"> to the <head>, pointing at the page's preferred absolute URL. Double-check it's self-referencing on the primary version: a canonical that points at the wrong page can quietly de-index the right one.
Open Graph tagsmedium impactlow effort
Missing Open Graph tags: og:url
Your Open Graph markup is incomplete, so social platforms fall back to guessed text or drop the preview image entirely when this page is shared — a broken card gets far fewer clicks than a complete one. Add the missing og:url tag to <head>. For og:image, use an absolute https:// URL to an image around 1200x630 pixels; relative paths are the usual reason previews break. Re-check with a platform's sharing debugger afterwards, since preview cards are cached.
7 passing checks
- Title tag<title> is "Vellum — A premium private club for people with full lives." (59 characters)
- Meta descriptionMeta description is "Vellum is a premium private club for people with full lives. Less noise. Better circles. A quieter way to meet the right people." (128 characters)
- Viewport meta tagViewport is "width=device-width, initial-scale=1, interactive-widget=resizes-content"
- Character encoding declaredCharacter encoding is declared
- FaviconA <link rel="icon"> is present
- Twitter card tagtwitter:card is "summary_large_image"
- Page allows indexingrobots: index, follow
Content & Structure
25/25
Headings, copy depth, images, structured data, internal linking.
Everything we check in this category passed.
Technical
19.9/25
HTTPS, redirects, robots, sitemap, speed, crawlability.
Fast time to first bytehigh impactmedium effort
4039 ms
Time to first byte is the floor under every other speed metric — the browser can't parse, render, or fetch anything until the first byte arrives, so a slow TTFB drags down all Core Web Vitals and tests crawlers' patience. Add caching in front of the origin: full-page caching at a CDN (Cloudflare, Fastly) helps most, followed by server-side caches (Redis, object caching) and indexes on slow database queries. Measure from locations near your actual users — tuning only your fastest region leaves distant visitors just as slow.
Short redirect chainmedium impactlow effort
https://vellum-club.com/ (301) → https://vellum.club/
Every redirect hop adds a round-trip before the visitor sees anything, each hop can leak a little link equity, and crawlers abandon long chains — which can leave the destination page undiscovered. Trace the chain above and point the first URL directly at the final destination in a single 301; commonly this means merging separate http-to-https and non-www-to-www rules into one combined redirect. Also update internal links to reference the final URL directly, so most visitors never enter the chain at all.
Response compression enabledlow impactlow effort
no content-encoding header
This HTML is served uncompressed, so every visitor downloads far more bytes than necessary — text compresses extremely well, and the savings directly speed up first render on slow connections. Enable Brotli or gzip on your server or CDN: in nginx it's "gzip on;" (or the brotli module), in Apache it's mod_deflate via .htaccess, and on most CDNs it's a single toggle. Make sure compression covers all text types (HTML, CSS, JS, JSON, SVG), but skip already-compressed images — recompressing them wastes CPU for no gain.
9 passing checks
- Served over HTTPSfinal URL uses https://
- HTTP redirects to HTTPShttp:// redirects to https://
- No mixed content0 http:// subresource references
- robots.txt present and permissiverobots.txt exists and allows crawling
- XML sitemap availablesitemap.xml exists and is valid XML
- Reasonable HTML size29.7 KB
- Missing pages return 404missing paths return HTTP 404/410
- www and non-www resolve consistentlywww and non-www converge on the same host
- HTML5 doctype<!DOCTYPE html> present
Performance
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