Lumen Payroll: visibility and experience audit
lumenpayroll.com, audited 9 Oct 2026
AI visibility
34poor
named in 35% of 256 answers · share of voice 24%
Search and answer readiness
58needs work
5 findings across 11 pages
Experience
61needs work
mobile 61 · desktop 72 · 7 accessibility rules failing
Domain trust
57needs work
2 high-severity findings · email, HTTPS, headers, libraries
In three lines
- Named in 35% of answers (95% interval 30–41%, n=256); Orbit Pay leads 7 of 8 questions.
- ChatGPT and Perplexity search crawlers are blocked by robots.txt.
- Mobile LCP is 4.6 s at p75; a newsletter modal covers 78% of the phone screen on articles.
Named in answers
8 samples per question, web search on
35% (30%–41%, n=256)
Orbit Pay
57% (51%–63%, n=256)
Quill HR
32% (27%–38%, n=256)
Meridian Payroll
25% (20%–30%, n=256)
Findings by severity
critical 0high 4medium 6low 1info 1
- highBody text on mist panels fails contrast — 8 of 11 pages
- highA newsletter modal covers 78% of the phone viewport 2 s after load — 2 of 11 pages
- highrobots.txt blocks ChatGPT and Perplexity search crawlers — 1 of 1 pages
- highLargest Contentful Paint is poor on mobile — 1 URL
- mediumFooter and nav links are smaller than 24×24 px on phones — 9 of 11 pages
- mediumSections open with preamble instead of the answer — 7 of 11 pages
Do these first
- 1.Allow AI search and user-triggered agents in robots.txtrobots.txt · effort S
- 2.Organization JSON-LD for the home pagejson-ld · effort S
- 3.Hero image as AVIF with high fetch priorityhtml · effort M
- 4.Content brief: "Which payroll tools handle German statutory reporting automatically?"markdown · effort L
- 5.Labels and autocomplete for the signup formhtml · effort S