Spokane local-SEO audit · prepared for

Witherspoon Brajcich McPhee, PLLC

workwith.com·Law Firms·Spokane area
61
Score · 100 point composite
Behind the curve
Across PageSpeed Insights mobile + desktop, on-page hygiene, structured-data adoption, Google Business Profile completeness, and local-pack visibility. Measured June 17, 2026.

1Your Spokane Standing

#5 of 5
The Standing
Witherspoon Brajcich McPhee, PLLC ranks #5 of 5 Law Firms 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
Note & Kidd PLLC· leader
98140 rev5.0
2
Spokane competitor
88121 rev4.4
3
Spokane competitor
8639 rev4.9
4
Spokane competitor
85157 rev4.4
5
You
669 rev3.9

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

The Spokane Law Firms field
4 tracked · snapshot July 20, 2026
Median audit score
76field
61
Have LocalBusiness schema
25%field
you don't
Median Google reviews
131field
9
Median mobile load
14.8sfield
3.2s

This is the field you're measured against — every Spokane Law Firms 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
You're 4 spots back on the signal customers actually check.

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 Law Firms Reviews
median 131
157
floor 39
Johnson Law Firm, P.C. | Personal Injury & Family Law
you 9
You
9reviews
3.9★ rating
Category leader · Johnson Law Firm, P.C. | Personal Injury & Family Law
157reviews
148 ahead of you
You need 122 more reviews just to reach the Spokane median for Law Firms. That's not the top — that's the middle. The local pack is sorted on signals like this one.
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Live · against the real Spokane field

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Your reviews
9
Review rank
#5of 5
9 nowleader Johnson Law Firm, P.C. | Personal Injury & Family Law · 157

You sit at #5 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 Law Firms.

Organic #3, and invisible on the map where buyers look first. See who's holding the three spots — and how to take one.

#1hidden
#2hidden
#3hidden
#3Witherspoon Brajcich McPhee, PLLCnot in pack
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4What to Fix, in Order of What It Costs

4 costly · 2 material · 3 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. Your rating is scaring off clicks.

    A star rating under 4.0 reads as a warning. People scroll past it to the next shop, even when you'd do the better job.

    Fix: Address the patterns in your negative reviews directly, then increase volume of recent positive reviews.

    Technical detail · for your developer

    Google rating is 3.9/5 — Average rating below 4.0 hurts the local-pack click-through dramatically. — Address the patterns in your negative reviews directly, then increase volume of recent positive reviews.

  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 photos are invisible to Google.

    Without descriptions, your images can't show up in image search and screen readers skip them. That's reach you're not getting.

    Fix: Audit content images and add descriptive alt text
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Most images missing alt text (29/31) — Image alt coverage is below 70%. — Audit content images and add descriptive alt text. Use empty alt='' only for decorative images.

  6. 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 85/100. — Review the PSI report for failing audits: title presence, meta description, crawlable links, valid hreflang.

  7. Your search headline gets cut off mid-word.

    Too long and Google truncates it; too short and it says nothing. Either way the click goes to a clearer competitor.

    Fix: Rewrite the page title to land between 30 and 65 characters
    Technical detail · for your developer

    Title tag is too long (68 chars) — Titles should be 30–65 characters to display fully in search results. — Rewrite the page title to land between 30 and 65 characters with the primary keyword and location.

  8. 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>.

  9. 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.

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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 1,300 searches a month.

That's roughly 25 inbound leadsa month from organic search alone. We haven't mapped Witherspoon Brajcich McPhee, PLLC'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 3.2 seconds for your page — slower than 1 Spokane competitor.

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 Law Firms
good 2.5s
median 14.8s
0s
Gilbert Law Firm, P.S.
you 3.2s
You
3.2s
0.7s over the 2.5s bar
Fastest in Spokane · Gilbert Law Firm, P.S.
2.9s
0.3s faster than you
1 of 4 Spokane Law Firms 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)1.00
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: "Witherspoon Brajcich McPhee, PLLC – Attorneys at Law – Spokane, WA |"
"Spokane" in meta description
Meta description is missing entirely.
Raw signals · supporting measurements
PageSpeed (mobile)
Performance65 /100
SEO85 /100
Accessibility56 /100
Best practices73 /100
Core Web Vitals (mobile)
LCP (load)3.2 s
CLS (shift)1.00
INP (response)
Google Business Profile
Profile existsyes
Rating3.9 / 5
Reviews9
Hours publishedyes
Structured data
JSON-LD presentno
LocalBusiness schemano
NAP complete in schemano
On-page & discovery
Title tag68 chars
Meta descriptionmissing
H1 count0
Images / missing alt31 / 29
robots.txtyes
sitemap.xmlyes
Audit prepared by spokaneseo.app — a project of August SEO LLC, Spokane, WA
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