Pre-Flight Inspection

Website Health
Report

Hangar 36 · 1396 U.S. Route 36, Hazlet NJ 07730
Site inspected
hangar36nj.com
Report date
July 30, 2026
Report no.
001 · Baseline
Prepared by
TJ OnCall
46/100
Baseline
Health Score
11 of 24 checks passed
Technical foundation6 / 8
Getting found locally3 / 6
How you look in search2 / 6
Content and reach0 / 4
Read this as a starting line, not a grade. Every item below was checked directly against the live site on July 30. The score is 24 equally weighted checks, so you can see exactly what moves it. Most of what is failing is quick to fix.
Section 01

What is already working

Worth saying plainly, because it is the part you do not have to pay anyone to rebuild. The bones are fine.

Secure and fast to respondThe site loads over HTTPS and your server answers in about a tenth of a second. That is genuinely quick.
Google knows you existYou have a Google Business Profile and the site links to it. That is the single most important local asset and it is already in place.
Real reviews out in the world37 reviews on Yelp, and Tripadvisor currently ranks you #5 of 68 restaurants in Hazlet. That is earned credibility.
Address and phone are on the page1396 U.S. Route 36 and 732-739-4600 both appear in the page text, which Google reads.
Google can crawl everythingYour sitemap is published and nothing is accidentally blocked. All six pages load correctly.
Every page is mobile-readyAll six pages are set up to resize for phones, which is where most of your customers will see you.
Section 02

What is costing you traffic

Ranked by what would move the needle most for a restaurant. Each one lists what it actually means for you, not just what is technically wrong.

Fix 01

Google is not told you are a restaurant

Behind every website is a hidden summary that tells Google what a business is: hours, address, price range, cuisine, menu, rating. Yours does not have one. The site currently identifies itself only as a generic "organization."

This is the biggest single item on the list. It is why your hours, price range and star rating do not show up under your name in search results the way they do for competitors. It also feeds the map pack, which is where people searching "breakfast near me" actually look.

Checked for restaurant, hours, address, rating, cuisine and price markup: 0 found
Fix 02

None of your photos are labeled

There are 72 images across the six pages, and not one has a text label. Google cannot see a picture, it can only read the label attached to it.

So none of your food photography is working for you in Google Images, and screen readers skip all of it, which is also an accessibility problem. For a restaurant, where the food photos are the whole pitch, this is a lot of unused value.

72 images checked · 72 missing alt text · 100%
Fix 03

Two pages are wearing the same name tag

Your Monthly Specials page has the exact same search title and description as your Menu page. Both say "Restaurant Menu in Hazlet, NJ."

When two pages look identical to Google, it picks one and mostly ignores the other. Your specials page is effectively invisible right now, which is a shame because specials are exactly the kind of thing people search for.

/monthly-specials title and description are byte-identical to /menu
Fix 04

Your Contact page describes your job openings

The description Google shows under your Contact page in search results currently reads "Explore open positions at our aviation inspired restaurant." That is the careers page text, copied onto the wrong page.

Someone searching for your phone number or address sees a hiring ad. Small thing, quick fix, but it is costing clicks from people who are ready to walk in.

/contact-us meta description matches /careers verbatim
Fix 05

The homepage is heavier than it needs to be

Your homepage loads 2.7 MB across 51 separate requests, and 1.9 MB of that is images. One logo file alone is 404 KB. None of the photos use the modern compressed formats, which typically cut image weight by half or better with no visible quality loss.

On a phone on a weak signal, that is the difference between a customer waiting and a customer leaving. Google also uses load speed as a ranking factor.

Measured 2,746 KB total · images 1,871 KB · CSS 434 KB · JS 327 KB
Fix 06

Six pages is a small footprint

The whole site is six pages, and two of them are very thin: Monthly Specials is 176 words and Careers is 252.

Every page is a separate chance to show up in a search. Right now there is nothing targeting the searches that actually bring people in: BYOB, catering, breakfast near Hazlet, private events, and so on. This is the slow-burn item and the main thing ongoing work would build.

6 pages total · thinnest 176 words · no blog or landing pages
Fix 07

Two pages share badly when texted or posted

Careers and Contact have no preview image set. When someone shares those links on Facebook or in a text, they show up as a bare link with no photo.

The other four pages are set up correctly, so this is a matter of filling in the gaps.

/careers and /contact-us: og:image missing
Fix 08

Two competing headlines on the homepage

The homepage has two main headlines where there should be one. Search engines use the main headline to understand what a page is about, and two of them splits the signal.

Minor on its own. Listed because it is a five minute fix on the page Google looks at hardest.

2 <h1> elements on /
Section 03

What we track every month

This is the part that makes the number at the top of this page move. Same report, same link, updated monthly, so you can watch it climb instead of taking anyone's word for it.

Metric Jul 2026 Aug Sep Oct
Health scoreThe 24 checks on this page 46···
Pages liveMore pages, more ways to be found 6···
Photos labeledWorking in Google Images 0 / 72···
Homepage weightLower is faster on phones 2.7 MB···
Restaurant details in searchHours, rating, price range No···
Searches you appear forNeeds Search Console access ····
Clicks from GoogleNeeds Search Console access ····
Google Profile views and callsNeeds profile access ····
Two things I need from you to fill in the bottom rows Right now I can measure everything about the website itself, but not what people are typing into Google to find you. That takes read access to Google Search Console and your Google Business Profile. Both are free, both take about five minutes, and neither gives up control of anything. Once they are connected, the last three rows start filling in and you can see actual searches, actual clicks, and actual calls.