Saturday Edition · September 19, 2026 · No. 352
“All the search rankings fit to print.”
The Desk Copy

What should your site be ranking for?

Paste a domain. Byline reads the site the way a visitor would, works out which searches it has the authority to win, and scores what is missing. No account, no card, nothing to install.

No account needed. Takes about a minute.

What happens when you press it

§ 01 · Three steps
01 / Read
Your sitemap and your pages

Up to a dozen pages, fetched the way a reader gets them. Publish dates come from your own sitemap, so the report is measuring your site rather than guessing at it.

02 / Work out
What you have authority on

Topics drawn from what the site already covers, not from a generic list for your industry. If you have no page on something you could clearly own, that is the gap.

03 / Score
Four things, deterministically

The same domain scores the same twice. Where a signal is missing the report says so rather than inventing a number to fill the slot.

What the score is made of

§ 02 · Four dimensions
Coverage

Topics you could own with no page answering them.

Freshness

How long since anything was actually published.

Depth

Whether the articles are long enough to answer anything.

Consistency

Whether publishing is a habit or a burst two years ago.