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01the receipts

One structure, ninety days.

A tree service company, coastal North Carolina — identity protected, reference available on request.

window: 90 days from baseline scan · all figures screenshot-matched to the exports below

6.3x

impressions in 90 days

2.8x

clicks in the same window

#1

map pack across the grid

100/100

lighthouse desktop — client build

Google Search Console performance compare view. Total clicks 114 against 41 in the previous three months; total impressions 10.4K against 1.65K; average CTR 1.1 percent against 2.5 percent; average position 14.1 against 6.9. The property name and URL bar are blurred.
One compare window carries both figures: impressions 10.4K against 1.65K, clicks 114 against 41. Average position and CTR fall in the same window — 14.1 against 6.9, and 1.1% against 2.5% — because the site entered several hundred queries it had never ranked for at all, and new queries join near the bottom of page two and get few clicks until they climb. Both averages dilute mechanically when the denominator grows that fast.

export 02 — search console, 3-month compare

02the grid

Local Falcon scan grid: a seven-by-seven matrix of ranking pins over a coastal North Carolina map. The upper two thirds are almost entirely green ones, sliding to twos, threes and a few yellow fours toward the southern edge of the service area.
Every dot is where this business ranks from that spot on the map.

export 01 — local falcon grid scan

03the inspection strip

desktop run, aug 21 2026

100

performance

100

accessibility

100

best practices

100

seo

On mobile the same build scores 95 for performance and 100 across accessibility, best practices and SEO. Both reports are below, unedited apart from the redactions.

PageSpeed Insights desktop report: performance 100, accessibility 100, best practices 100, SEO 100. First and largest contentful paint 0.4 seconds, total blocking time 0 milliseconds, cumulative layout shift 0.046. The audited URL and page thumbnail are blurred.
export 03 — pagespeed insights, desktop
PageSpeed Insights mobile report: performance 95, accessibility 100, best practices 100, SEO 100. First contentful paint 2.1 seconds, largest contentful paint 2.4 seconds, total blocking time 0 milliseconds, cumulative layout shift 0. The audited URL and page thumbnail are blurred.
export 04 — pagespeed insights, mobile

04generative search

69 to 1,170 AI search appearances.

Google reports separately on the answers it generates. Over the three months to 26 September 2026 this domain was shown 1,170 times in AI Overviews and AI Mode, against 69 in the three months before — seventeen times as many, rising every month of the period rather than spiking once. The work that produced it was not exotic: answer the questions people actually ask, in the words they ask them, with specifics a model cannot invent, and mark it up so it can be quoted.

Google Search Console, Performance, Generative AI features report, search type Web. Total impressions 1.17K in the last three months against 69 in the previous three months, with a monthly trend line climbing from near zero to about 700 and rising at every point. The capture is framed to the report itself, so no property name, URL bar or account avatar appears in it.

05what we did

  1. 01Baseline scan filed day one: Local Falcon grid, Lighthouse, and a Search Console export, dated before anything was touched.
  2. 02Rebuilt the site on a static stack — the old build was a page builder shipping its whole component library to render five sections.
  3. 03Structured the service and location pages against the grid scan, so a page exists where the business was invisible and nowhere else.
  4. 04Wrote the answer set the way buyers actually ask, with real prices and real timelines, and marked it up so it can be quoted.
  5. 05Rescanned the grid monthly and left the exports in the client folder, which is where the numbers on this page come from.

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The inspection starts with the same baseline scan that produced the numbers above.