Website Audit: How to Find, Prioritize, Fix, and Verify Problems
A 15-step website audit process: crawl a baseline, check technical SEO, content, speed, UX, and AI access, score issues, fix root causes, and verify...
Website Audits
TECHNICAL SEO · CONTENT · PERFORMANCE · AEO/GEO
SiteAuditLint: Desktop SEO audit tool to Crawl.
A Windows app that crawls every URL, scores your site health, ranks fixes by impact and effort, and compares every audit you run. It also checks whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity can read your pages and whether they cite them.
100 URLs free. No credit card required.
Crawl: 149 URLs in 1 minute. 84 healthy, 0 broken.
Screens from a sample audit of northwindapparel.com, a demo apparel store.
STEP 1
Crawl.
A full technical SEO, content, performance and AEO/GEO crawl, run on your own machine. The sample store below took one minute for 149 URLs, and every page lands in a filterable view for titles, meta descriptions, headings, canonicals, hreflang, sitemaps and structured data.
- Every URL sorted into healthy, needs attention, redirected, broken or blocked
- 20 filtered views, from response codes and duplicate content to anchor text
- No cloud upload, everything stays on your desktop
Desktop crawlerTechnical SEO auditOn-page checksDuplicate contentInternal links
STEP 2
Fix.
Every issue comes with its severity, impact and effort, why it matters, how to fix it, and the exact URLs as evidence. The Action Plan then ranks the work, so a slow page and 8 missing meta descriptions get handled before a title that runs one character long.
- Ranked by impact, effort and reach
- "Why it matters" and "how to fix" on every issue
- Tracking audit for GTM, GA4, Google Ads and Meta Pixel
STEP 3
Compare.
Every audit is saved. Pick any earlier audit and see which issues are new, fixed, increased, decreased or unchanged, down to the URLs that changed. On the sample store, 32 links to broken internal pages were fixed and critical issues fell from 33 to 0.
- Unlimited local audit history
- Compare any two audits, not just the last two
- New and fixed URLs counted for every issue
STEP 4
Improve.
Beyond classic SEO, see whether AI search engines can read your site and whether they actually cite it. SiteAuditLint checks 9 AI crawlers against your robots.txt, then runs the prompts your customers ask through ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity and counts every citation and mention.
- Answer Engine Readiness score and llms.txt check
- AI citations by prompt, model, cited page and competitor
- Runs on your own API keys, with a cost estimate first
RUNS LOCALLY
Your data stays on your machine.
No account, no upload, no third-party server holding your crawl data. SiteAuditLint runs entirely on your desktop.
- Crawl locally
- Store history locally
- Export anytime
- Works offline
★★★★★
"The Action Plan alone changed how we prioritize. We stopped guessing which of 300 issues actually mattered. Impact and effort ranking did that for us."
BUILT FOR
Agencies, freelancers, and in-house SEO teams
- Agencies
- Freelance SEOs
- Marketing Teams
- Developers
- Consultants
Why I built a desktop crawler I only had to pay for once.
For years, my technical SEO work ran on Screaming Frog. It is a great crawler, and I still respect it. But every year the license renewal came around, and every year I paid it again for a tool I mostly used the same way: crawl, export, sort, fix.
The second frustration was Java. Screaming Frog is built on Java, and on more than one machine I lost time to runtime updates, memory allocation settings and a crawler that stalled on a big site before I raised the RAM limit. I wanted to open an app and start an audit, not tune a runtime first.
So I built the tool I wanted: a native Windows SEO audit tool, pay once, no Java, and no guessing about what to fix first.
SiteAuditLint crawls your site on your own desktop, weighs every issue by impact, effort and severity, and hands you an Action Plan in the order the work should happen. It saves every audit so you can compare this crawl against any earlier one and see what actually improved. And because search now includes ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity, it checks whether AI crawlers can read your pages too.
The pricing follows the same rule I wanted as a user. Pro is $99 and Agency is $159, one time, no subscription. If you have ever felt that renewal email land in your inbox, I built this for you.
PRICING
Simple, transparent pricing.
One-time payment. No subscription. No license key. Runs locally on Windows.
MOST POPULAR
Pro
$99one-time
Unlimited URLs
- Action Plan & AEO/GEO score
- Audit history & comparison
- GSC, GA4, PageSpeed
- PDF reports & exports
Agency
$159one-time
Unlimited URLs
- Everything in Pro
- Client reporting
- Slack & Teams
- White-label reports
Questions, answered.
What people ask before they run their first crawl.
Is SiteAuditLint free?
Yes. The Free plan crawls up to 100 URLs per crawl with basic SEO checks, core crawl features and CSV export. No credit card is required. Pro ($99) is a one-time payment with unlimited URLs. Agency ($159) is also a one-time payment and adds client reporting, Slack and Teams alerts, and white-label reports.
Does my crawl data leave my computer?
No. SiteAuditLint is a desktop app for Windows. Crawls, audit history and exports are stored locally on your machine, with no account and no cloud upload.
What is AEO/GEO and the Answer Engine Readiness score?
AEO (answer engine optimization) and GEO (generative engine optimization) cover how well AI search engines can find and cite your pages. SiteAuditLint checks 9 major AI crawlers, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot, against your robots.txt, detects llms.txt, flags content structure issues such as missing question-led sections, and rolls it up into an Answer Engine Readiness score. See the AEO / GEO audit.
How does the Action Plan prioritize SEO issues?
Every issue is ranked by impact, effort and severity, with the number of affected URLs, the evidence, why it matters and how to fix it. High-impact problems such as broken internal links and 4xx client errors rise above low-value warnings. See how the Action Plan works.
Can I compare audits over time?
Yes. Every audit is saved locally. Run a new crawl and see which issues are new, fixed, increased, decreased or unchanged, with your Audit Score charted across every audit. See audit comparison.
Can SiteAuditLint show whether ChatGPT cites my website?
Yes. AI Visibility runs your own prompts through ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity, several times each, and reports how often your site is cited or mentioned, which of your pages get cited, and which competitor sites show up instead. It uses your own API keys and shows a cost estimate before each check. See the AI visibility tracker.
Does it audit Google Tag Manager, GA4 and tracking pixels?
Yes. Tracking & Pixels lists every analytics tool, tag manager, ad pixel and event on the site, shows what is inside each GTM container, and flags leftover Universal Analytics code, marketing tags hard-coded outside GTM, pages missing the analytics tag, and GTM tags without a trigger. It also detects consent tools such as Cookiebot and Google Consent Mode. See the tracking audit.
Does it integrate with Google Search Console, GA4 and PageSpeed?
Yes, on the Pro and Agency plans. Agency adds client reporting, Slack and Teams notifications, and white-label PDF reports.
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