Topping Technologies   Site audit & rebuild direction
Prepared for Nick 2026-05-19
00 Pre-rebuild audit

toppingtechnologies.com

Topping
Technologies.

A look at where the site is today — and the work the rebuild needs to do for Fortune 500 procurement and local SEO in parallel.

Current grade
0
HubSpot Website Grader
Rebuild target
0
+ 20 minimum
Sub-scores
Perf 15 / 30
SEO 30 / 30
Mobile 20 / 30
Sec 10 / 10
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01 The brief

Two audiences. One site.

“Long story short, want to make the site look more appealing to Fortune 500 companies and use SEO so more local shops find us.”

Nick · Topping Technologies

Enterprise procurement teams need reassurance. Local North Texas businesses need to find you in the first place. This audit looks at the current state through both lenses.

02 Where the site stands today

75 / 100.

The breakdown points the rebuild’s priorities — but one of these scores is misleading.

PerformancePage speed, requests, weight
15 / 30
SEOPer HubSpot — see below
30 / 30
MobileTap targets, font sizes
20 / 30
SecurityHTTPS, libraries
10 / 10
The asterisk on that 30 / 30

HubSpot’s grader doesn’t check schema markup, alt text, canonical tags, or what’s actually inside title tags. Factor those in and the real SEO score is closer to 22 / 30. That’s why we’ll spend a lot of this on SEO even though the grader gave it a perfect mark.

03 The headline finding

The current site works against both goals you set.

01 · F500 Appeal

No proof, anywhere.

No customer logos. No case studies. No security certifications. No leadership page. The homepage H1 is literally “About Us.”

02 · Local SEO

Structurally invisible.

No Google Business Profile turns up. Zero structured data. The words “Plano” and “Frisco” don’t appear in any title tag or meta description.

03 · Performance

7.6 second page speed.

132 page requests for a site with about 300 words of body copy. The bottleneck is the GoDaddy Website Builder framework, not your content.

04 The homepage, line by line

This is what search engines see today.

Verbatim from the page source.

<title> tag
<title>Topping Technologies</title>

No keywords. No location. No value proposition. A trailing space where there should be a tagline.

<meta name="description">
Topping Technologies Value Added Reseller and information technology services s company with especial proficiency in cybersecurity.

A stray "s". The Spanish word "especial" instead of "specialized" or "exceptional". No location keyword. This is the description Google shows in search results.

Homepage <h1>
About Us

The single most important on-page SEO signal — the H1 on your most important page — used for the words "About Us."

05 By the numbers

What’s broken, quantified.

JSON-LD schema entries
0

No Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, or Breadcrumb schema. Google’s structured-data hooks are entirely absent.

Canonical tags
0

Across all 8 indexable pages. Basic SEO hygiene is missing.

Images missing alt text
0

Of 45 total. Includes 20 vendor logos on the Partners page (CrowdStrike, Dell, HPE, Palo Alto, Fortinet, etc.).

Page requests (homepage)
0

For roughly 300 words and 3 visible images. GoDaddy Website Builder framework overhead.

Page speed (HubSpot)
0

7.6 seconds. Best-in-class is under 1.5s. Mobile users abandon after 3.

Google reviews
0

None visible on Google, Clutch (no profile), Yelp, or Trustpilot. No review velocity.

City landing pages
0

Competitors have /managed-it-services-plano and similar. You have none.

Mentions of “Plano” in any title/meta
0

GXA mentions it 40+ times per page. Resultant, 12+. Topping, zero.

06 Things that actively hurt

These aren’t omissions. They’re red flags.

07 Reality check

What competitors are doing on the same searches.

Three Plano MSPs you compete against every time someone Googles “managed IT services Plano.”

Criterion
GXA
Resultant
NCC Data
Topping
H1 includes "Plano"
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Certifications in hero
SOC 2, ISO 9001, MSP, Veteran-owned
24/7 SOC
99.99% uptime
None
Customer logos shown
Yes
11 logos
Implied
None
Industries page
7 verticals
Implied
Yes
None
Hard stats (uptime, response)
99.999%, 15 min
200+ biz, 20k users
99.99%
None
"Plano" mentions per page
40+
12+
10+
0
The good news

None of this requires a custom platform. These are content and information-architecture decisions. The rebuild can match or beat all of them.

08 Path to 95+

This part is mechanical.

A from-scratch build hits 95+ on launch day. The score isn’t the goal — it’s the floor.

Today
0
Perf15
SEO30
Mobile20
Sec10
Day 1 of rebuild
0
Perf30
SEO30
Mobile28
Sec10

How — mechanical

  • Modern static stack (Astro / Next.js SSG / tuned WordPress)
  • Native lazy-loading, AVIF/WebP, ≤30 requests, sub-2s LCP
  • Schema markup site-wide: Organization, LocalBusiness, Service, FAQ
  • Real title tags, meta descriptions, canonicals, alt text on every image
  • Mobile tap targets ≥48px, responsive font scale
  • CSP, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy headers

How — the harder work

  • Trust / Compliance page with security posture & cert roadmap
  • 3–5 case studies with measurable outcomes
  • Leadership page, Industries page, Partners page rebuilt with tiers
  • Google Business Profile claimed, verified, optimized
  • NAP standardized across web, LinkedIn, Crunchbase, D&B, ZoomInfo
  • City landing pages: Plano, Frisco, Allen, McKinney, Richardson
  • Citation cleanup (Clutch, G2, BBB, Chambers) + Google review program
09 Proposed design direction

IBM Carbon.

The design system you’ve been reading this audit in.
Open-source, free, and built for the exact audience you’re trying to win.

Canvas
#FFFFFF
Surface 1
#F4F4F4
Surface 2
#E0E0E0
Ink
#161616
IBM Blue
#0F62FE
Second accent
— none —
76px w300 Display headline
42px w300 Section opener
16px w400 Body copy with the small +0.16px tracking that’s part of Carbon’s precision detail.
12px w400 Caption / eyebrow / monospace label
10 Why IBM — specifically

It’s built by the company that’s sold more IT to the Fortune 500 than any other in history.

A · Gravitas

Old-world enterprise calm.

Built for IT decision-makers and technical buyers. Looks credible next to IBM, Microsoft, Accenture, Deloitte in the same evaluation.

B · Restraint

One accent. Square corners. No shadows.

The visual language reads as “we don’t need to shout.” Generic SaaS templates read as “we’re just getting started.”

C · Performance

95+ for free.

No required gradient mesh, no full-bleed dark hero, no animation budget. The visual restraint is the performance budget.

D · Free + open

SIL OFL licensed.

IBM Plex Sans is free. The Carbon system is open-source, MIT-licensed, maintained for 8+ years. Durable, not trendy.

E · Differentiation

Doesn’t look like every other MSP.

GXA, Resultant, NCC Data all run generic rounded-card SaaS templates. Carbon looks meaningfully more serious side-by-side.

F · SEO-friendly

Local SEO compatible.

Conventional marketing-site IA. Trivial to drop in city pages, industries, case studies without breaking the system.

11 Measurement

What the current site can’t measure, it can’t grow.

The current site has bare-bones Google Analytics — pageviews and not much else. No goals, no conversion events, no source attribution. That’s fine for a brochure. For an SEO and paid-ads strategy, it’s the difference between making decisions and guessing at them.

11.A · SEO

Tuning, not guessing.

SEO is iterative. You need to see which keywords are pulling real traffic, which pages convert, and where visitors drop off. Without that, every content decision — which city pages to publish, which industries to feature, which long-tail terms to write next — is a coin flip.

11.B · Paid Ads

Spend that becomes ROI.

Running Google Ads or Meta paid social without conversion tracking is paying for clicks blind. With it, ad spend becomes a measurable cost-per-lead — per channel, per campaign, per keyword. That’s the difference between a $50 lead and a $500 lead, and you can only fix it if you can see it.

11.C · The dashboard

A Matomo dashboard, included.

The rebuild includes a Matomo analytics dashboard — one view of traffic, lead sources, conversions, and ad performance, with Google Ads, Meta Pixel, and LinkedIn Insight wired in. Self-hosted, so the data is yours, not Google’s. Privacy-friendly. Read-out built into the workflow.

Why Matomo, specifically
  • You own the data. Self-hosted on Topping’s infrastructure — not handed to Google.
  • No sampling. 100% of visits, not a statistical subset. GA4 drops detail; Matomo doesn’t.
  • Privacy by default. GDPR / CCPA-friendly without a cookie banner in most cases. Better for enterprise buyers vetting Topping’s own posture.
  • Open-source, 15+ years mature. Used by the UN, NASA, and the European Commission. Durable, not trendy.
What gets wired in at launch
  • Conversion events on every CTA — briefing requests, assessment requests, phone clicks, form submits.
  • Google Ads conversion API + Meta Pixel + LinkedIn Insight Tag pre-wired for the day you turn on paid.
  • Lead-source attribution — which page, which campaign, which keyword brought the lead.
  • Monthly read-out: a one-page summary of what worked, what didn’t, and what to test next.
12 If we’re aligned

Next steps.

  1. Confirm IBM Carbon as the visual direction.

  2. Walk through the proof inventory: which customers we can name, current certifications, partner-tier levels, and minority / HUB credentials. Everything else depends on these.

  3. There’s a working homepage mockup already live at topping.danhorntx.com/mockup — real content, real structure, real SEO posture. Pressure-test it.

  4. From there, we scope timeline, content production, and migration plan.