starlingbank.com
Evidence collected August 31, 2026 · 30 polite, robots.txt-respecting requests · every claim cites what it saw
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66.2/100 — advocacy readiness(reduced confidence: parts of the evidence were unobservable — see below)
Graded because the reader classified enough of this site to trust the measurement. For scale: of the 350 companies in this corpus, only 126 earned a grade — for the rest I withheld it rather than grade a site the reader could not read.
Read this before the numbers
This tool was built in a few days, on a stack of stated assumptions. I didn't have the time — or the inside knowledge of what buyers in this category actually optimize for — to be certain these are the metrics that matter most. The four categories and their weights are editorial judgment, not measurement: nobody has proven that these things cause employees to post, and I don't claim otherwise.
Where the evidence comes from: three of the four categories read only what your company has published on its own public site — the part you can fix on Monday. Half of Employee & Culture comes from somewhere else: aggregate counts of how many of your people posted in the last 90 days, from a licensed third-party index of public professional-network activity. Nothing here was scraped from LinkedIn by this tool. Those counts are records in an index, not a census — they undercount, they undercount small companies most, and you can't check them yourself — so each one says so where it appears, a zero is reported as "none in the index" and never as "nobody posts," and a company with fewer than 25 people in the index gets the number reported but not scored. No individual is named anywhere in this report.
To prioritize speed, this particular report was loaded using cached data; it was generated from evidence originally collected on August 31, 2026 rather than live. Reports are cached for 30 days. Every observation below is dated and cited.
What you can hold me to: every number cites its evidence and says where it came from, nothing unseen is guessed at, robots.txt is respected on every fetch, and when this tool can't read a site it says so instead of issuing a grade.
What was found — most fixable first
Ranked by impact × ease of fixing, not by category. Counts describe the pages actually read, and each finding cites them.
0 of 24 sampled pages carry Article structured data
None of the 24 content pages sampled carry Article structured data. Machine readers cannot tell these pages are articles, or when they were published, or by whom.
Evidence — content page sample
- https://www.starlingbank.com/blog/author/starling-writing-team/
- https://www.starlingbank.com/blog/budgeting-abroad-team-gb-hockey/
- https://www.starlingbank.com/blog/careering-into-motherhood-career-coaching-for-working-mothers/
- https://www.starlingbank.com/blog/family-safeword-to-protect-against-whatsapp-scams/
- https://www.starlingbank.com/blog/freelance-magazine-connecting-with-freelancers/
- https://www.starlingbank.com/blog/helping-young-people-stay-safe-online/
- https://www.starlingbank.com/blog/how-criminals-use-remote-access-software-to-steal-your-money/
- https://www.starlingbank.com/blog/successful-saving-compound-interest/
- … and 16 more in the sample
The fix: Emit Article (or BlogPosting) JSON-LD with headline, datePublished and author in the content template.
0 of 24 sampled pages name a human author
None of the 24 sampled content pages carry a named human author — no byline, no author schema, no rel=author. Content nobody signs is content nobody feels ownership of; advocacy runs on employees being visible in the work.
Evidence: content page sample — 0 of 24 sampled pages.
The fix: Add author bylines to content pages — a name, ideally with a link or an author block in the Article schema. Start with new posts; backfilling can wait.
Your job listings are invisible without JavaScript
Your careers page (https://www.starlingbank.com/careers) returns HTML, but the job listings are injected client-side — a plain reader sees a page with no roles on it. Machine readers that do not execute JavaScript (many crawlers and AI assistants) cannot see that you are hiring.
Evidence — careers page probes
- https://www.starlingbank.com/careers
The fix: Server-render at least the role titles and locations, or publish jobs in structured data (schema.org JobPosting).
What's already working
All tracked AI user-agents may read your site
robots.txt permits all 25 tracked AI user-agents at the site root, so AI search engines and assistants that honor robots.txt can read and cite you.
Evidence: robots.txt.
Your homepage share card is complete
The homepage carries og:title, og:description and og:image, so a shared homepage link renders a full preview card.
Evidence: homepage HTML.
Share controls are on nearly every sampled page
20 of 24 sampled pages (83.3%) carry a visible share control.
Evidence: content page sample — 20 of 24 sampled pages.
What could not be seen
Anything the reader could not observe is listed here rather than guessed at or silently skipped.
Content freshness is not observable here
Your sitemap carries no lastmod dates, so I cannot see how fresh your content is and have not guessed.
Evidence: sitemap lastmod analysis.
The fix: Emit real last-modified dates in the sitemap. Credible freshness data helps every machine reader — search, AI, and tools like this one — represent you accurately.
For the record
No llms.txt
No llms.txt file is served. This costs nothing today — the evidence that llms.txt affects anything is weak — so I do not count it against you.
Evidence: llms.txt fetch.
How the numbers break down
Weights: Content Supply 30% · Shareability 25% · Employee & Culture 25% (half what the site says, half what employees do) · AI Discoverability 20%. The weights are editorial judgment about what an advocacy program draws on — not the result of a study. Every row cites the observation behind it and says whether it was read from your site or from the licensed index.
Content Supply — 73.5/100 (reduced confidence)
| Signal | Points | What was observed |
|---|---|---|
| Volume floor | 27.4/40 | 619 shareable pages after collapsing localized duplicates |
| Section diversity | 19/30 | 4 shareable section(s): blog, resource, news_press, culture |
| Shareable share | 27.1/30 | 76.6% of the canonical inventory is shareable content |
Recency was not scored: this sitemap carries no lastmod dates at all. Content freshness is not observable here and has not been guessed at.
Shareability — 95/100
| Signal | Points | What was observed |
|---|---|---|
| Open Graph image — without one, a shared link renders as a bare grey box | 35/35 | 24 of 24 sampled pages (100%) |
| Open Graph title on the shared card | 15/15 | 24 of 24 sampled pages (100%) |
| Open Graph description on the shared card | 15/15 | 24 of 24 sampled pages (100%) |
| A visible share control on the page | 25/30 | 20 of 24 sampled pages (83.3%) |
| Twitter/X card tags (near-zero weight: X falls back to Open Graph) | 3/3 | 24 of 24 sampled pages (100%) |
| Canonical URL (near-zero weight: SEO hygiene, not a sharing condition) | 2/2 | 24 of 24 sampled pages (100%) |
Employee & Culture — 35.1/100
| Signal | Points | What was observed |
|---|---|---|
| What the site says (50 of 100) | ||
| Culture / life-at pages | 12.5/15 | 13 culture page(s) in the canonical inventory |
| Careers page reachable | 7.5/7.5 | A careers page was found and retrieved |
| Careers depth | 3.2/7.5 | 2 careers URL(s) in the sitemap |
| Named authors on content | 0/12.5 | 0% of sampled pages carry a named author |
| Employee-story signals | 0/7.5 | 0 of 3 sampled culture URL(s) match employee-story patterns (life-at, employee spotlight, meet-the-team) |
| What employees do (50 of 100) | ||
| Employees posting (last 90 days) | 5.7/25 | 118 of 2427 indexed employees posted in the last 90 days (4.9%). licensed third-party index (not independently verifiable); 2427 of 2855 employees covered. |
| Decision-makers posting | 4.8/15 | 31 decision-makers posted in the last 90 days (1.3% of indexed employees). licensed third-party index (not independently verifiable). |
| Company page posting cadence | 1.5/10 | 20 company post(s) in the last 90 days in the index. licensed third-party index (not independently verifiable). |
A qualitative read of the careers page (boilerplate vs. real human stories) is not included in this number.
Half of this category is measured from employee posting activity in a licensed third-party index (2427 of 2855 employees covered). Those counts are records in a third-party index, a lower bound the visitor cannot verify independently; the other half is what the website itself shows.
AI Discoverability — 58/100
| Signal | Points | What was observed |
|---|---|---|
| AI crawler access | 45/45 | All 25 tracked AI user-agents are permitted at the site root |
| Content-Signal coherence | 9/15 | No Content-Signal declared. Neither a grant nor a restriction — scored neutrally. |
| Structured data | 4/40 | 1 schema.org type(s) on the homepage; 0% of sampled content pages carry Article schema |
| llms.txt | 0/0 | Not present. This costs nothing — the evidence that llms.txt affects anything is weak. |
robots.txt compliance is voluntary and advisory. This reports the declared policy; it is not a claim that any crawler was actually blocked.