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Your Site Has 47 Issues You Can't See. We Found Them All.

If you're a founder watching traffic leak while your agency bills monthly, this audit ends the guessing game.

Technical SEO, performance, security, UX, content quality, and AI-citation readiness -- delivered as a single executive report with prioritized fixes.

200+
Checkpoints
Per audit
10
Business Days
Turnaround
6
Audit Pillars
One deliverable
100%
Actionable
Prioritized fixes
What Is a Comprehensive Website Audit?

A website audit looks at your site across six dimensions: technical SEO, content quality, user experience, security, runtime performance, and AI-citation readiness. Most audits pick one area and stop there. This one doesn't. It shows how problems compound across disciplines -- a slow page hurts your SEO rankings, kills the user experience, and makes it far less likely that AI systems will ever surface your content.

Your Current Site May Be a Liability

Common gaps we find in nearly every audit.

You hired three vendors for three separate audits and got contradictory recommendations
Risk: Wasted budget, conflicting priorities, and months of paralysis instead of progress.
Core Web Vitals are failing but nobody can explain the business impact to leadership
Risk: Google ranking erosion accelerates quietly until organic traffic drops 30-50%.
AI assistants like ChatGPT and Perplexity never cite your content
Risk: You're losing a growing slice of zero-click traffic to competitors who've structured their content for LLM consumption.
Security headers and SSL configuration haven't been touched since launch
Risk: One vulnerability becomes a data breach, a regulatory fine, and a reputation crisis.
Content gets published on a calendar but nobody's measuring topical authority or cannibalization
Risk: Pages compete against each other in SERPs and dilute ranking potential across your entire domain.
The dev team says the site is fast, but real users on mobile are waiting 6+ seconds for pages to load
Risk: Lab scores mask field performance -- actual bounce rates climb while the team celebrates metrics that don't mean what they think they mean.

What Your Website Could Look Like

Custom-designed for your industry. No templates. No stock photos.

Comprehensive website audit dashboard combining technical SEO content UX security performance and AI-citation readiness
A real comprehensive audit deliverable -- six dimensions in one executive scorecard: technical SEO content UX security performance and AI-citation readiness

How We Build This Right

Every safeguard, built in from Day 1.

Technical SEO Analysis

Crawlability, indexation, canonical chains, hreflang, XML sitemaps, and internal linking architecture. We identify every barrier between your content and Google's index.

Core Web Vitals & Performance

Field data from CrUX, lab data from Lighthouse, and waterfall analysis for every critical page template. Prioritized by traffic impact, not vanity scores.

Content Quality & Topical Authority

Content gap analysis, keyword cannibalization mapping, E-E-A-T signal audit, and thin content identification. Every page gets a keep, merge, rewrite, or kill recommendation.

UX & Accessibility Review

WCAG 2.2 AA compliance check, mobile usability audit, navigation heuristics, and conversion funnel friction analysis. Accessibility isn't optional -- it's a ranking factor.

Security Posture Assessment

HTTP security headers, SSL/TLS configuration, mixed content detection, dependency vulnerability scan, and OWASP Top 10 surface review. We flag what attackers would find first.

AI-Citation Readiness

Structured data validation, content formatting for LLM extraction, FAQ schema coverage, and source authority signals. We prepare your site to be cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.

What We Build

Purpose-built features for your industry.

Executive Summary Dashboard

A single-page scorecard with red/yellow/green ratings across all six pillars -- built for C-suite review, not just developers.

Prioritized Fix Matrix

Every finding ranked by effort vs. impact so your team knows exactly what to fix first for maximum ROI.

CrUX Field Data Integration

Real-user performance data from the Chrome User Experience Report, not synthetic lab tests.

Competitor Benchmarking

Side-by-side comparison of your audit metrics against your top three organic competitors.

AI Visibility Score

Proprietary scoring of how likely AI systems are to cite your content, based on structured data, authority signals, and content format.

90-Day Remediation Roadmap

A phased action plan with sprint-ready tickets your dev and content teams can pick up immediately.

Built on a Modern, Secure Stack

Screaming FrogLighthouseAhrefsChrome DevToolsOWASP ZAPSchema ValidatorNext.jsVercel

Our Development Process

From discovery to launch. Quality at every step.

01

Intake & Scoping

Days 1-2

We collect access credentials, define priority page templates, identify your top three competitors, and align on business KPIs. No generic checklist -- every audit is scoped to your specific goals.

02

Automated & Manual Crawl

Days 3-5

Full-site crawl with Screaming Frog and custom scripts, supplemented by manual inspection of critical templates. We catch technical SEO issues, broken resources, and structural problems that automated tools miss.

03

Deep-Dive Analysis

Days 5-8

Performance profiling, security scanning, content quality assessment, UX heuristic evaluation, and AI-citation readiness testing across all six audit pillars.

04

Report Assembly & QA

Days 8-9

Findings get synthesized into the executive dashboard, prioritized fix matrix, and 90-day roadmap. Every recommendation goes through peer review by a second senior auditor before it reaches you.

05

Delivery & Walkthrough

Day 10

A 60-minute video call walks your team through every finding, priority, and recommended next step. Includes 30 days of follow-up Q&A.

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Frequently Asked Questions

The audit covers six pillars: technical SEO (crawlability, indexation, structured data), Core Web Vitals performance, content quality and topical authority, UX and accessibility, security posture, and AI-citation readiness. You get an executive dashboard, prioritized fix matrix, competitor benchmarks, and a 90-day remediation roadmap — all in one deliverable.
Ten business days from kickoff to delivery for sites under 2,000 pages. Larger sites or multi-domain audits may need 15 business days. We confirm the timeline on the scoping call based on your site's complexity and how many page templates are involved.
AI-citation readiness measures how likely large language models — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini — are to reference your content when answering questions. We look at structured data coverage, content formatting, authority signals, and FAQ schema to make sure your site's positioned for the growing share of traffic that starts with an AI assistant, not a search bar.
Free tools run automated crawls and flag surface-level issues. This audit pairs automated scanning with manual expert analysis across six disciplines. We also map how problems compound — a render-blocking script that hurts Core Web Vitals also suppresses crawl efficiency, which reduces indexation. Free tools can't connect those dots or rank issues by actual business impact.
The audit includes a sprint-ready remediation roadmap your team can execute directly. If you need help implementing the fixes, we offer remediation engagements scoped from the audit findings. Most clients save 40-60% on implementation costs because the diagnostic work is already done.
Yes. We audit sites on any platform — WordPress, Shopify, Next.js, custom PHP, headless CMS architectures, legacy systems. Our methodology is platform-agnostic. We adapt our tooling and recommendations to your specific tech stack so every fix is immediately actionable by your development team.
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