Site audit · no hosting needed
What is holding this site back — and what to fix first
Most site tools hand you a spreadsheet of everything that is technically imperfect and leave you to work out what matters. This one crawls the site page by page, sorts what it finds by what it is actually costing you, says what each finding means in plain words, and gives you the change to make. Any site you own — and for sites hosted with us, a second half no outside tool can do.
- No hosting plan needed
- Any site you own
- From $5/month
- PayPal, card or crypto
A site with three hundred pages missing a description gets one finding listing all three hundred, not three hundred rows. A report you have to filter before you can read it is not a report.
What it checks on any site
Pages that are broken
Pages that error, return “not found” or refuse to load — including ones your own site links to, where a visitor hits a dead end and the links you built count for nothing.
Pages hiding from search
A “noindex” instruction left on after launch is one of the most common ways a site quietly disappears from Google. It is the first thing we look for.
Titles
Missing, duplicated, too short, or long enough to be cut off. The title is the clickable headline in search results, so it is worth getting right.
Descriptions
Missing, duplicated or cut off. Not a ranking factor — but it is the paragraph that decides whether anybody clicks.
Thin, empty and duplicated text
Pages with very little to say, pages that are blank unless scripting runs, and pages whose text matches another page and splits what both have earned.
Headings and images
Pages with no main heading or several, and images with no alt text — which is what a screen reader says instead of the picture.
Speed and weight
Pages slow enough to lose visitors before they appear, and pages large enough to be slow and expensive on a phone.
Security
Pages served without encryption, and secure pages that pull in something over plain HTTP — which drops the padlock and tells the visitor the page is not fully secure.
Dead outbound links
Links to other sites that no longer exist. A page full of them reads as abandoned.
And for sites hosted with us, the half nobody else can do
None of this is visible from outside the server, so no outside audit tool can tell you any of it. We can, because it is our server.
Is the site actually finished?
Whether it is fully set up or still waiting for something — most often for the domain’s nameservers to be pointed at us, which is done at your registrar.
Malware and integrity
Whether our scanner has flagged anything, and whether the integrity check on the core files, the configuration and the administrator is clean.
Plugins that are not allowed
Plugins we do not permit here, because they conflict with how sites are served or are known to be unsafe — named, so you know what to replace.
Disk and file-count pressure
A site running out of its file allowance starts failing uploads and updates in ways that look like unrelated bugs. We tell you before that happens.
Backups
Whether there is a recent backup to restore from — the question you only ask once it is too late.
PHP, HTTPS and caching
Whether the site runs a version that still gets security fixes, whether encryption is on, and whether it is served through a content network.
How it works
Enter the address
Any site you own. If you host sites with us they are one-click buttons. The audit takes a few minutes.
Prove it is yours, once
Sites hosted with us need no proof. For a site hosted elsewhere we audit the first few pages until you prove it is yours — with a DNS record, a meta tag or a file, whichever is easiest. It takes about a minute and only has to be done once per site.
Fix, then re-crawl
Work down the list, press Re-crawl, and the score history shows exactly what your changes did.
We crawl politely, and we mean it
We read the site’s robots.txt first and obey it, including any crawl delay it asks for. We fetch one page at a time with a pause between them. We never fetch more pages than your plan allows. And we identify ourselves honestly in every request. An audit should never be something a site owner notices as load.
Priced by audits and pages
Prices in US dollars per month. Pay for 1, 3, 6 or 12 months with PayPal (which also takes cards) or crypto. No hosting plan needed.
Starter
- 5 audits a month
- Up to 100 pages per audit
- Any site you own
- Filters, saved views and CSV export
Growth
- 25 audits a month
- Up to 300 pages per audit
- Every site you host with us re-audited monthly, automatically
Pro
- 100 audits a month
- Up to 500 pages per audit
- For an agency or a large network
Need more audits? Add packs of 10 more audits for $4 a month each, on any plan.
No hosting needed
The site audit is sold on its own and works on any site you own, wherever it is hosted. Create an account, choose “No hosting needed”, and it is in your menu straight away. If you do host with us, those sites need no verification and get the extra server-side half — and each site’s page gets a Site audit tab.
Pairs well with
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Read the full guide
Step by step, with screenshots of every screen: The Site Audit – What Is Holding A Site Back.
Questions people ask
Do I need a hosting plan?
No. The site audit is sold on its own and works on any site you own, hosted with us or anywhere else. Sites hosted with us simply get more out of it, because we can also check things that are not visible from outside.
Can I audit a site that is not hosted with you?
Yes. Sites hosted elsewhere are crawled shallowly until you prove the site is yours — enough to judge a site you are considering, not enough to be used as a crawling service pointed at strangers. Proving it takes about a minute, with a DNS record, a meta tag or a file, and only has to be done once.
Why do you need me to prove I own it?
Because otherwise anybody could point our crawler at anybody else’s site. A short audit of a site you have not verified is useful and harmless; a full crawl of one is neither.
How many pages will it crawl?
Up to your plan’s limit per audit — 100, 300 or 500 — following the links it finds from the address you give it. If robots.txt asks us not to fetch something, we do not fetch it, and the report says how many pages that applied to.
Will it slow my site down?
It should not be noticeable. We fetch one page at a time with a pause between them, and obey any crawl delay the site asks for.
Can you fix the problems for me?
Where the fix is something our platform already does — turning on HTTPS, caching — there is a button that takes you straight to it. Everything else comes with a plain-English explanation of what to change, which you or your developer can act on. If you would rather we did the work, ask us.
Will it e-mail me constantly?
No. One message per audit at most, and only when there is something to say — the first audit of a site, or a score that has moved. Never one message per finding.
Find out what to fix first
From $5 a month, any site you own, no hosting plan required.
Site audit — prices today
- Starter$5.00/month5 audits a month, 100 pages each
- Growth$15.00/month25 audits a month, 300 pages each
- Pro$39.00/month100 audits a month, 500 pages each
- +10 audits$4.00/month+10 audits a month
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