Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

Spokane County, WA

43
Score · 100 point composite
Critical
Across PageSpeed Insights mobile + desktop, on-page hygiene, structured-data adoption, Google Business Profile completeness, and local-pack visibility. Measured June 19, 2026.

1Your Spokane Standing

#8 of 8
The Standing
Spokane County, WA ranks #8 of 8 Funeral Homes we track in Spokane.

That's the bottom third of the field. The sites above you aren't doing anything exotic — they're doing the basics, and you can see the score gap below.

Rank
Business
1
Heritage Funeral & Cremation· leader
10791 rev4.6
2
Spokane competitor
98196 rev4.9
3
Spokane competitor
9697 rev4.7
4
Spokane competitor
93126 rev4.9
5
Spokane competitor
9123 rev5.0
6
Spokane competitor
8921 rev4.1
7
Spokane competitor
712 rev5.0
8
You
43 rev

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Composite score blends on-page, reputation, and local-search signals. Full methodology at /data.

The Spokane Funeral Homes field
7 tracked · snapshot July 20, 2026
Median audit score
82field
43
Have LocalBusiness schema
57%field
you don't
Median Google reviews
91field
Median mobile load
8.9sfield
10.1s

This is the field you're measured against — every Spokane Funeral Homes we track, captured and time-stamped. The gaps below are your position inside it.

2Where Customers Decide

Reviews · trust signal
The Signal Customers Actually Check
Your review footprint is invisible on the signal customers check first.

Reviews are the one ranking signal your customers read before they ever load your site. Google reads it too — review volume and rating feed the local pack directly.

Where You Sit on Spokane Funeral Homes Reviews
median 91
196
floor 2
Hennessey Funeral Home & Crematory
You
reviews
no rating on file
Category leader · Hennessey Funeral Home & Crematory
196reviews
the bar to clear
You need 91 more reviews just to reach the Spokane median for Funeral Homes. That's not the top — that's the middle. The local pack is sorted on signals like this one.
Move Me to #1
Live · against the real Spokane field

Drag your review count up. We re-rank you on reviews against the same Spokane field, live — every competitor stays fixed.

Your reviews
0
Review rank
#8of 8
0 nowleader Hennessey Funeral Home & Crematory · 196

You sit at #8 today. Drag the reviews up to see what the climb buys.

3Your Live Google Position

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The local pack · locked

You're not in Google's local 3-pack for Spokane Funeral Homes.

Organic #5, and invisible on the map where buyers look first. See who's holding the three spots — and how to take one.

#1hidden
#2hidden
#3hidden
#5Spokane County, WAnot in pack
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4What to Fix, in Order of What It Costs

5 costly · 2 material · 4 polish

Ranked by what each gap costs you, not by how a scanner flags it. The top of this list is where you're losing the call or the click today. Work down from there.

  1. You're invisible on the map.

    No Google Business Profile means you can't appear in the map results — where most local searches end. This is the single biggest miss.

    Fix: Claim or create a Google Business Profile at business.google.com. Verify by postcard or phone.

    Technical detail · for your developer

    No Google Business Profile found — Without a GBP, the business cannot appear in the local pack — the single biggest local-SEO miss. — Claim or create a Google Business Profile at business.google.com. Verify by postcard or phone.

  2. Google is guessing what your business is.

    Structured data is how you tell Google your name, address, and what you sell. Without it, Google infers — and it trusts the competitors it's sure about.

    Fix: Add a LocalBusiness JSON-LD block with NAP (name, address,
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No structured data (JSON-LD) on page — Google relies on structured data to understand local business information. — Add a LocalBusiness JSON-LD block with NAP (name, address, phone), opening hours, and primary category.

  3. Google is writing your search-result preview for you.

    An empty meta description means Google grabs random page text. You're handing your first impression to an algorithm.

    Fix: Add a unique meta description summarizing the page
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Missing meta description — The page has no <meta name="description"> tag. — Add a unique meta description summarizing the page. Include the city and primary service.

  4. Your page never says what it's about.

    The main heading tells Google and the visitor what this page does. With none, both have to guess — and guessing costs you the ranking.

    Fix: Add a single descriptive H1 to the page with the primary keyword
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No H1 tag on page — Every page should have exactly one H1. — Add a single descriptive H1 to the page with the primary keyword.

  5. Your site makes phone users wait.

    Over half your visitors are on phones. A slow load is a closed tab before they ever see you.

    Fix: Compress images, defer non-critical JS, and serve from a CDN
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Slow mobile performance — Mobile performance score is 40/100. Google uses mobile speed as a ranking factor. — Compress images, defer non-critical JS, and serve from a CDN. Focus on Largest Contentful Paint.

  6. You're just below the three businesses that get the calls.

    The top three map results take most of the clicks. You're close — close enough that reviews and a few fixes can move you in.

    Fix: Strengthen NAP consistency across citations, build reviews, and
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Ranking #5 for the primary organic query — Positions 4–7 sit below the top organic results, where the first three capture most of the clicks. — Strengthen NAP consistency across citations, build reviews, and add LocalBusiness schema if missing.

  7. Google's own checklist is flagging your pages.

    Google runs an automated scorecard on every page. Failing items are easy points you're handing to competitors who pass them.

    Fix: Review the PSI report for failing audits: title presence, meta
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Lighthouse SEO score below 90 — Lighthouse SEO checks failing — score is 83/100. — Review the PSI report for failing audits: title presence, meta description, crawlable links, valid hreflang.

  8. Some of your photos are invisible to Google.

    Image descriptions feed image search and help screen readers. Missing them leaves traffic and accessibility on the table.

    Fix: Add descriptive alt text to content images
    Technical detail · for your developer

    2 of 22 images missing alt text — Alt text helps both accessibility and image search ranking. — Add descriptive alt text to content images. Use empty alt='' only for decorative images.

  9. Your links look like spam when shared.

    Paste your URL into Facebook or a text and you get a blank box. A bare link gets fewer clicks than one with a title and image.

    Fix: Add og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url meta tags to the
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No Open Graph meta tags — Open Graph tags control how the page appears when shared on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. — Add og:title, og:description, og:image, og:url meta tags to the page <head>.

  10. Your links show no preview on X.

    Shared without a card, your link is a naked URL. A preview with a headline and image earns the click; a bare link doesn't.

    Fix: Add twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description,
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No Twitter Card meta tags — Twitter Card tags control share previews on X/Twitter. — Add twitter:card, twitter:title, twitter:description, twitter:image meta tags.

  11. Google may be splitting your page's credit in two.

    Tracking links and duplicate URLs can look like separate pages to Google. A canonical tag keeps all the ranking credit on one.

    Fix: Add <link rel='canonical' href='<page url>'> in the page <head>
    Technical detail · for your developer

    No canonical tag — Self-referential canonical tags prevent duplicate content issues from tracking parameters. — Add <link rel='canonical' href='<page url>'> in the page <head>.

Want Expert Help With These Issues?

These fixes are doable in-house — but if you'd rather hand them off, August SEO works with Spokane businesses on exactly this. No pitch, no pressure. Just say the word.

Top 3 Fixes Sprint · the next step

You don't have to close this gap alone.

You've seen exactly what's costing you. Hand us the top three and we ship the fixes, then prove the move with a re-run of this same audit.

  • We fix your three highest-leverage gaps — schema, Google Business Profile, and on-page
  • We re-run your audit and show you the score move
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Full Technical Detail

Authority · trajectory · load · raw signals
Organic authority · searches you're not getting
Authority & organic traffic
The leader in your vertical pulls about 2,300 searches a month.

That's roughly 46 inbound leadsa month from organic search alone. We haven't mapped Spokane County, WA's own authority yet, so we can't draw the gap — but the ceiling for this market is right there.

Mobile load · field metric
The Wait Before Anything Loads
On a phone, visitors wait 10.1 seconds for your page — slower than 5 Spokane competitors.

This is Largest Contentful Paint — the moment your main content actually appears on a phone. Google's bar for “good” is 2.5s. Past it, visitors leave before the page finishes, and Google ranks you lower for it.

Mobile load time across Spokane Funeral Homes
good 2.5s
median 8.9s
0s
Pacific NW Cremation & Funeral
you 10.1s
You
10.1s
7.6s over the 2.5s bar
Fastest in Spokane · Pacific NW Cremation & Funeral
5.1s
5.1s faster than you
5 of 7 Spokane Funeral Homes we measured load faster than you. On mobile, every second past the 2.5s bar costs visitors before they ever see your offer — and Google folds that wait straight into your ranking.
Layout shift (CLS)0.01
Responsiveness (INP)145ms
Spokane signal · local-anchor audit
Spokane localization signal
Partial signal — not enough
45/100

Your title names Spokane, but the meta description doesn't reinforce it.

"Spokane" in page title
Title: "Spokane County, WA | Official Website"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta description is missing entirely.
Raw signals · supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance40 /100
SEO83 /100
Accessibility96 /100
Best practices77 /100
Core Web Vitals (mobile)
LCP (load)10.1 s
CLS (shift)0.01
INP (response)145 ms
Google Business Profile
Profile existsno
Rating
Reviews
Hours publishedno
Structured data
JSON-LD presentno
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag37 chars
Meta description0 chars
H1 count0
Images / missing alt22 / 2
robots.txtyes
sitemap.xmlyes
Audit prepared by spokaneseo.app — a project of August SEO LLC, Spokane, WA
Report cmql7t79 · 2026-06-19