philaacting.com — what to fix, in what order
Full-content audit · November 9, 2026 · all 41 pages in the sitemap, proofread three times over and rendered in real Chrome at both desktop (1440px) and iPhone (390px) width. One responsive Wix build — issues below say whether they show on desktop, mobile, or both.
1 P1 · Fix first
Visible to customers right now — expired dates, dead booking flows, wrong facts, name misspellings.
More than a year past (verified: Oct 18 2025 was indeed a Saturday). Page still reads "Limited Seating Available", "Reserve My Seat Now" and shows Early Bird (by Sept 15) / Last Minute (Oct 11–18) pricing tiers as if the event were next week.
Fix: Update to the next scheduled masterclass date + pricing, or unpublish all 3 masterclass pages until a date exists.
The "Bryn Mawr" and "Plymouth Meeting" pages carry the identical Oct 18 2025 event, the same Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia) address, and the identical page title "masterclass in Philadelphia, PA." — a Bryn Mawr event that never leaves Philadelphia is contradictory.
Fix: One page, or real per-venue dates/addresses/titles. Verified on all three page dumps.
Aug 17 last fell on a Wednesday in 2022 (Aug 17 2026 was a Monday); no year given. It is also the only registration page for the site's lead magnet — and nothing on the site links to it.
Fix: Replace with the next scheduled free Zoom class date (with year), or remove the date until one is scheduled. Also link this page from the homepage.
All six March-2023 "news" posts are template demos about smart wearables, "Airy Pods", IoT and fintech — unrelated to an acting school — with the literal Wix placeholder sentence as body.
Fix: Delete the placeholder posts (or the whole News page), or replace with real studio press items.
Should be "That You're Best For". This bullet sits inside the primary Acting Accelerator™ call-to-action.
Fix: Fix the apostrophe on the homepage (and the matching copy on mentorship-group).
Two defects in one line: the award years are stale (it's 2026) AND Wix auto-linked the range as a phone number — on a phone, tapping "2020-2022" tries to dial it.
Fix: Unlink the text (remove the auto-link) and refresh or re-date the "top acting school" claim; the badge elsewhere on the page says 2024.
“referring” (two r’s), “Whether it’s”, “one of a kind”, missing space + missing closing parenthesis.
Fix: One editing pass over the homepage long-form copy; all four verified verbatim.
The site's own Sept-2026 guide page describes Netflix at Fort Monmouth, Lionsgate Newark and 1888 Studios Bayonne as already established — the homepage "Coming" framing is outdated.
Fix: Reword to present tense, e.g. "New Jersey's Booming Film Studios" — it's actually a stronger selling point now.
Live on all 41 pages: a 🐴 appears before every browser-tab title. It's injected by a Wix SEO title customization (not in the raw HTML) — almost certainly an accident, and it dilutes every search/social listing.
Fix: Wix SEO → per-page titles → remove the 🐴 prefix. Check Google Search Console for the same in SERP titles.
"Benard" in the <title> tag and in the photo alt text — on the most credential-sensitive page, reached from the menu's "About". Body text spells Bernard correctly.
Fix: Fix title + alt. Also on this page: "Bernards Acting Resume" → Bernard’s; "25 years of acting experience" conflicts with "SAG-AFTRA since 1998" (28).
Free Live Class, Intro Accelerator, New Intro Accelerator and Trial Acting Class booking pages all show "not available" with an empty Upcoming Sessions section — dead checkout paths. Verified on all four.
Fix: List current bookable sessions with prices, or unpublish from the sitemap (classes are actually sold via Stripe links elsewhere).
Those April Tuesdays were 2026 — already past (current cycle: Jan 5–26, 2027). Missing spaces after commas, abbreviated "Str", and the $595 conflicts with the $35 "Intro Acting Accelerator™" elsewhere (a $45 Trial class too).
Fix: Reconcile the three Intro Accelerator pages: one program, one price story, current dates with year.
video-resources-library says 7:00 PM; intro-acting-accelerator and acting-class-experience say 6:00 PM. Students will show up at the wrong time.
Fix: Verify the real time and make all three pages agree.
The studio is 19119 (per the Directions page and every other mention); 19118 is the Chestnut Hill venue’s ZIP — the no-refund policy and mailto block under it compound the confusion.
Fix: Correct to 19119.
Live nav check: "Testimonials" lands on the bare homepage with no anchor; two different menu items point to the same /class-recordings page; the footer Privacy Policy links to the homepage — /privacy-policy-1 is effectively unreachable from the site.
Fix: Point Testimonials at the real section, split the two Class-Recordings items, fix the footer to /privacy-policy-1.
The class experience page's browser title sells a $35 class; the same-named program is 595 dollars on a booking page and $35 only for the online Zoom variant. Confusing before a visitor even clicks.
Fix: State clearly what $35 buys, or retitle.
2 P2 · Should fix
Weak spots a visitor can find: stale duplicates, empty pages, abandoned blog, draft CTAs.
The scrolling film-credits strip ("Rabbit Rabbit, Hustle, Creed 2, Mayor of Kingstown…") and several label lines render at 6–9 CSS pixels on a 390px iPhone — verified by computed styles in a true mobile render. Same text is fine size on desktop.
Fix: Raise mobile font floors to ≥12px for these strips (Wix responsive text settings, or hide the marquee on mobile).
"Acing" typo + stale 2023 copyright; the Phone menu item links back to the page itself, Testimonials goes to the homepage, Blog is unlinked text. Reachable only via direct URL/sitemap.
Fix: Unpublish or 301 to the real homepage. Deprioritize below visible pages — but it also leaks into Google.
A Wix "copy-of" duplicate of the intro class page, still in the sitemap, selling a half-day intensive from over a year ago. Bonus: its lesson list renders at 8px on mobile.
Fix: Delete or redirect to /intro-acting-accelerator.
The page contains one heading and a footer — nothing else. Its title tag says "Self-Tape Auditions & Acting Fundamentals" and the URL says "mentorship-program": three names, no content.
Fix: Build it out, redirect, or unpublish.
Loyalty is just the Wix default tagline; Groups shows one private group with one member; Challenges is an empty program list. They look abandoned to any visitor who lands there.
Fix: Finish or unpublish all three.
Near-empty page: the "Free Coaching" heading has no content, and its only button links to /intro-acting-class — confirmed 404, the only genuinely dead internal link found.
Fix: Repoint to /intro-acting-accelerator and fill or delete the page.
For a school, "who teaches here" matters — this page has almost nothing and no menu link.
Fix: Populate with the teaching roster or drop it from the sitemap.
Product titled "The Only Way To Be Considered For Speaking Roles In Major Films" priced $0.00 under the URL slug how-to-sing-part-i — a renamed leftover. Also one broken image.
Fix: Delete or give it a real price, description and matching slug.
Two posts, both July/Aug 2021, present-tense 2021 phrasing — while the nav still advertises Blog. Verified typo backlog inside the posts listed below.
Fix: Either post fresh articles (the studio clearly has news) or remove Blog from the main menu.
Missing spaces glued whole phrases together, "testimonials" misspelled, "worth its salt" over-corrected to it's, "this is of course", a subject-verb disagreement ("classes… it also does so") and a comma splice. All verified verbatim.
Fix: One copy-edit pass over both posts; they're evergreen otherwise.
The Wire is HBO. The reprinted article is undated ("circa 2010") so it reads like current news.
Fix: Fix to HBO and date the reprint.
The online CTA links to a Wix draft "copy-of" slug whose own name says "in-person"; the in-person CTA links to the bare homepage. Film still is spelled "Kock" in an image filename/alt.
Fix: Repoint CTAs to the live class pages; fix the alt text.
One page takes email inquiries, one is a bare heading ("Sel-Tape" in the title tag), one is the modern Stripe-booked version — and the modern page contains a sentence fragment ("With over 17 years… projects." ends before the subject). Also "inorder" (twice) and "Its different for everyone" on the mentorship page.
Fix: Keep acting-classes-private-coaching; redirect the other two; fix the fragment and its typos.
It's a 20-minute call, not a class; the Contact Details block (address + email) is also repeated verbatim 4× on the page.
Fix: Rewrite the policy for a call ("no-shows forfeit the call"), deduplicate the contact block.
Missing spaces inside sentences, apostrophe-plurals (CEOs/VPs), "HIgh-Stakes" in the strategy session’s title tag, and the strategy session’s H1 is a zero-width character (invisible heading). The coaching copy itself is strong — polish only.
Fix: Copy-edit pass + fix title tag and H1.
Three different figures for the same career across pages (studio founded 2009 → 17 years). Minor individually, sloppy when pages are compared.
Fix: Standardize to "17+ years" everywhere.
Duplicated duration/price fields on the service page, a stray space before ™ and before a period, "TED Talk" lowercase.
Fix: Fix while updating the event dates.
3 P3 · Polish
Invisible-ish or cosmetic: SEO headings, double periods, capitalization.
Verified from the live DOM of all 41 pages. Google weighs the H1 heavily; right now several pages' H1s describe widgets, not topics.
Fix: In the Wix editor, set each page's true topic as its single H1. Mostly invisible to visitors, meaningful for ranking.
Comma missing in a three-part list; the "recent successful casting endeavor" testimonial is an undated anecdote (Bicycle Vignette) that is clearly years old.
Fix: Add the comma; date the story or replace it with a current booking.
Cosmetic but visible. The "here.. at" one also runs two sentences together.
Fix: Global search for ".." in the Wix text and fix; split the run-on.
Mid-sentence title-case; reads unfinished.
Fix: Normal sentence-case it.
Capital E mid-sentence; remember the footer link sends people to the homepage instead (P1).
Fix: Fix the capital; fix the footer link.
Four typos in the mentorship curriculum list — the list people judge the program by.
Fix: Managers / You're / With / Yourself.
Not the same claim, but easy to read as a contradiction between pages written at different times.
Fix: Align the framing (e.g., "thousands trained, hundreds booked").
Methodology — how this was checked (click to expand)
- Every one of the 41 sitemap URLs was crawled and read in full; three independent proofreaders reviewed the text; every quoted string was machine-verified against the live page before appearing here.
- Every advertised date was validated in Python — past-vs-today and whether the named weekday actually matches (e.g. Aug 17 was last a Wednesday in 2022).
- All pages rendered in real Chromium at 1440px and true 390px: checked horizontal overflow (zero pages overflow on either width), computed font sizes (the 6–9px findings are measured, not eyeballed), broken images, H1 inventory, tap targets.
- Every internal link HTTP-checked: only one 404 (/intro-acting-class, from video-ebook-etc). IMDb/Yelp/LinkedIn return bot-walls to curl but are fine for humans.
- Rigor check: three suspected typos ( “L ower”, “Pl us:”, “Since 2009No”) failed live-DOM verification and were dropped as false positives.
- Fresh facts on the good side: the January 5–26, 2027 Tuesday class cycle is current and consistent; the Sept 2026 classes guide is genuinely up to date.