// site by site
The five properties
Each Grayscale property with its stack, its pages and the findings that name it.
Each finding is listed under every property it applies to. Some apply to all five.
Main site
- Address
- www.grayscale.com
- Stack
- Next.js on Vercel
- Indexable pages
- 223
- Findings that name it
- 26: 1 Critical, 9 High, 12 Medium, 4 Low
Page verdicts: 18 Keep, 193 Improve, 11 Merge, 1 Remove.
| ID | Severity | Finding |
|---|---|---|
| A-2 | Critical | Hub pagination uses buttons with no links, so most Stack articles have no crawlable hub link |
| A-4 | High | 975 old URLs end in a 404, and the redirect map lists 41 of them |
| A-5 | High | Plain HTTP clients get no content from five hosts |
| A-6 | High | Most www and etfs pages have no canonical tag, and 236 parameter URLs can be indexed |
| A-8 | High | The sitemaps leave out live pages and list dead ones, so search engines may miss some pages |
| A-9 | High | Mobile pages load slowly on every template measured |
| A-10 | High | Every indexable www and research page carries thousands of invisible characters |
| A-11 | High | Ad tags fire before a visitor makes a cookie choice, and the first layer (the first banner screen) has no visible Deny button |
| C-3 | High | Fund pages and fund documents name the wrong asset |
| C-4 | High | 27 blog and research pages still describe spot ETF approval or the GBTC conversion as pending |
| A-12 | Medium | Titles and H1s (main page headings) do not describe the pages |
| A-13 | Medium | One generic meta description (the summary shown under a search result) covers 263 pages, and 125 www pages have none |
| A-14 | Medium | www, etfs, research and the ZCSH site carry no structured data |
| A-15 | Medium | Internal links carry campaign tags |
| A-16 | Medium | A footer link on 139 pages has a broken https prefix |
| A-17 | Medium | Redirects use extra hops and temporary codes |
| A-19 | Medium | The home page and fund pages lead with the wrong heading |
| A-20 | Medium | Common accessibility errors appear on most templates |
| C-6 | Medium | 24 pages are thin, and 10 have no value to a reader |
| C-7 | Medium | 38 pages repeat a topic that another page covers |
| C-8 | Medium | 50 pages contain internal contradictions or mixed facts |
| C-9 | Medium | Key templates are hard for AI tools to quote |
| A-23 | Low | Vercel hosts send few security headers |
| A-24 | Low | Some outbound links are dead |
| C-10 | Low | 207 pages make claims with no source on the page |
| C-11 | Low | Text defects appear on many pages |
ETF site
- Address
- etfs.grayscale.com
- Stack
- Next.js on Vercel
- Indexable pages
- 37
- Findings that name it
- 21: 1 Critical, 7 High, 9 Medium, 4 Low
Page verdicts: 1 Keep, 35 Improve, 1 Merge, 0 Remove.
| ID | Severity | Finding |
|---|---|---|
| A-1 | Critical | The ETF site keeps loading tracking tags after a visitor declines cookies |
| A-5 | High | Plain HTTP clients get no content from five hosts |
| A-6 | High | Most www and etfs pages have no canonical tag, and 236 parameter URLs can be indexed |
| A-8 | High | The sitemaps leave out live pages and list dead ones, so search engines may miss some pages |
| A-9 | High | Mobile pages load slowly on every template measured |
| A-10 | High | Every indexable www and research page carries thousands of invisible characters |
| A-11 | High | Ad tags fire before a visitor makes a cookie choice, and the first layer (the first banner screen) has no visible Deny button |
| C-3 | High | Fund pages and fund documents name the wrong asset |
| A-12 | Medium | Titles and H1s (main page headings) do not describe the pages |
| A-13 | Medium | One generic meta description (the summary shown under a search result) covers 263 pages, and 125 www pages have none |
| A-14 | Medium | www, etfs, research and the ZCSH site carry no structured data |
| A-19 | Medium | The home page and fund pages lead with the wrong heading |
| A-20 | Medium | Common accessibility errors appear on most templates |
| C-6 | Medium | 24 pages are thin, and 10 have no value to a reader |
| C-7 | Medium | 38 pages repeat a topic that another page covers |
| C-8 | Medium | 50 pages contain internal contradictions or mixed facts |
| C-9 | Medium | Key templates are hard for AI tools to quote |
| A-23 | Low | Vercel hosts send few security headers |
| A-24 | Low | Some outbound links are dead |
| C-10 | Low | 207 pages make claims with no source on the page |
| C-11 | Low | Text defects appear on many pages |
Research site
- Address
- research.grayscale.com
- Stack
- Next.js on Vercel
- Indexable pages
- 187
- Findings that name it
- 23: 1 Critical, 7 High, 10 Medium, 5 Low
Page verdicts: 2 Keep, 164 Improve, 19 Merge, 2 Remove.
| ID | Severity | Finding |
|---|---|---|
| A-2 | Critical | Hub pagination uses buttons with no links, so most Stack articles have no crawlable hub link |
| A-5 | High | Plain HTTP clients get no content from five hosts |
| A-8 | High | The sitemaps leave out live pages and list dead ones, so search engines may miss some pages |
| A-9 | High | Mobile pages load slowly on every template measured |
| A-10 | High | Every indexable www and research page carries thousands of invisible characters |
| C-2 | High | Template placeholders, error text and test pages are live |
| C-4 | High | 27 blog and research pages still describe spot ETF approval or the GBTC conversion as pending |
| C-5 | High | A webinar that says it is confidential is public |
| A-7 | Medium | Research returns 200 for any made-up report or commentary URL |
| A-12 | Medium | Titles and H1s (main page headings) do not describe the pages |
| A-13 | Medium | One generic meta description (the summary shown under a search result) covers 263 pages, and 125 www pages have none |
| A-14 | Medium | www, etfs, research and the ZCSH site carry no structured data |
| A-15 | Medium | Internal links carry campaign tags |
| A-20 | Medium | Common accessibility errors appear on most templates |
| C-6 | Medium | 24 pages are thin, and 10 have no value to a reader |
| C-7 | Medium | 38 pages repeat a topic that another page covers |
| C-8 | Medium | 50 pages contain internal contradictions or mixed facts |
| C-9 | Medium | Key templates are hard for AI tools to quote |
| A-21 | Low | Most research images have no alt attribute |
| A-23 | Low | Vercel hosts send few security headers |
| A-24 | Low | Some outbound links are dead |
| C-10 | Low | 207 pages make claims with no source on the page |
| C-11 | Low | Text defects appear on many pages |
Institute site
- Address
- institute.grayscale.com
- Stack
- WordPress behind Sucuri
- Indexable pages
- 49
- Findings that name it
- 20: 1 Critical, 5 High, 9 Medium, 5 Low
Page verdicts: 8 Keep, 28 Improve, 6 Merge, 7 Remove.
| ID | Severity | Finding |
|---|---|---|
| C-1 | Critical | The Institute privacy policy says personal data is sold to sponsors |
| A-3 | High | The Institute site shows text that matches security test markers |
| A-5 | High | Plain HTTP clients get no content from five hosts |
| A-8 | High | The sitemaps leave out live pages and list dead ones, so search engines may miss some pages |
| A-26 | High | The Institute structured data names another company as the publisher |
| C-2 | High | Template placeholders, error text and test pages are live |
| A-12 | Medium | Titles and H1s (main page headings) do not describe the pages |
| A-15 | Medium | Internal links carry campaign tags |
| A-16 | Medium | A footer link on 139 pages has a broken https prefix |
| A-17 | Medium | Redirects use extra hops and temporary codes |
| A-20 | Medium | Common accessibility errors appear on most templates |
| C-6 | Medium | 24 pages are thin, and 10 have no value to a reader |
| C-7 | Medium | 38 pages repeat a topic that another page covers |
| C-8 | Medium | 50 pages contain internal contradictions or mixed facts |
| C-9 | Medium | Key templates are hard for AI tools to quote |
| A-18 | Low | Institute date archives are noindex, use post titles as H1s, and have no canonical |
| A-22 | Low | The Institute robots.txt is a published draft |
| A-24 | Low | Some outbound links are dead |
| C-10 | Low | 207 pages make claims with no source on the page |
| C-11 | Low | Text defects appear on many pages |
ZCSH site
- Address
- www.thezcashetf.com
- Stack
- Next.js on Vercel
- Indexable pages
- 3
- Findings that name it
- 13: 3 High, 7 Medium, 3 Low
Page verdicts: 1 Keep, 1 Improve, 1 Merge, 0 Remove.
| ID | Severity | Finding |
|---|---|---|
| A-5 | High | Plain HTTP clients get no content from five hosts |
| A-8 | High | The sitemaps leave out live pages and list dead ones, so search engines may miss some pages |
| A-9 | High | Mobile pages load slowly on every template measured |
| A-13 | Medium | One generic meta description (the summary shown under a search result) covers 263 pages, and 125 www pages have none |
| A-14 | Medium | www, etfs, research and the ZCSH site carry no structured data |
| A-20 | Medium | Common accessibility errors appear on most templates |
| C-6 | Medium | 24 pages are thin, and 10 have no value to a reader |
| C-7 | Medium | 38 pages repeat a topic that another page covers |
| C-8 | Medium | 50 pages contain internal contradictions or mixed facts |
| C-9 | Medium | Key templates are hard for AI tools to quote |
| A-23 | Low | Vercel hosts send few security headers |
| A-25 | Low | The ZCSH domain does not enforce email authentication |
| C-11 | Low | Text defects appear on many pages |