What's hurting your Google rankings?

What Does This SEO Audit Check?

This comprehensive audit evaluates your website across 11 categories with over 55 individual checks. Each check is scored and weighted by impact, giving you an overall SEO Health Score from 0 to 100.

Technical SEO (25%) checks your HTTPS setup, robots.txt, XML sitemap, mobile viewport, canonical tags, redirect chains, mixed content, soft 404s, and hreflang tags. These are foundational signals that tell search engines whether they can crawl and index your site properly.

On-Page SEO (20%) evaluates your title tags, meta descriptions, H1 structure, heading hierarchy, internal links, Open Graph tags, and Twitter Cards. These elements directly influence how your pages appear in search results and how users interact with them.

Content Quality (22%) analyzes word count, readability, placeholder text detection, blog presence, content duplication, and passage structure for AI extractability. Content is the #1 ranking factor — thin pages with under 300 words rarely rank for competitive terms.

Performance (15%) uses the Google PageSpeed Insights API to measure your real Core Web Vitals: Largest Contentful Paint (LCP, threshold: 2.0s), Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS), Interaction to Next Paint (INP), Time to First Byte (TTFB), and overall Performance Score. Speed directly impacts rankings and user experience.

Authority & Backlinks (10%) pulls live data from a professional SEO database to show your Domain Rating (0-100), total backlinks, referring domains, referring IPs, broken backlinks, total ranking keywords, position distribution, and estimated monthly organic traffic. This is the same caliber of data enterprise SEO platforms use. Most free audit tools skip authority entirely.

Schema Markup (12%) checks for JSON-LD structured data, LocalBusiness or Organization schema, BreadcrumbList, WebSite with SearchAction, Person/Author, VideoObject, and FAQ schema. Schema helps Google understand your business and enables rich snippets in search results.

AI Search Readiness (5%) evaluates whether your content is structured for AI-powered search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. FAQ sections, Q&A patterns, and indexability all factor in.

GEO / AIO (5%) checks llms.txt compliance, passage structure scoring (150-300 word chunks), direct answer formatting, question-based headings, and content freshness per-platform. AI search is the fastest-growing channel — optimize for it now.

Images (5%) checks alt text coverage and image optimization signals. Images without alt text hurt accessibility and SEO, while unoptimized images slow down your pages.

Analytics (5%) detects your tracking stack — Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, LinkedIn Insight, Hotjar, and Microsoft Clarity. Proper tracking is essential for measuring SEO ROI.

Security (5%) checks HTTPS enforcement, HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options headers. Security is a ranking signal and builds user trust.

How the Scoring Works

Your overall score is a weighted average across all 11 categories. Technical SEO and On-Page SEO carry the most weight because they are the foundational signals Google evaluates first. Performance and Content Quality are next, followed by the new Authority & Backlinks category, Schema Markup, AI Readiness, GEO/AIO, Images, Analytics, and Security.

A (90-100): Your site has excellent SEO fundamentals. Focus on content velocity and review generation. B (75-89): Good foundation with specific areas to improve. Check the Top Priorities. C (60-74): Several important checks are failing and likely costing you rankings. D (40-59): Multiple fundamental issues need attention. F (below 40): Critical problems that may be making your site invisible in search.

How Is This Different From Other Free Audit Tools?

Who Should Use This Audit Tool?

How theStacc Helps After Your Audit

Every issue in your audit maps directly to a Stacc feature. Missing or weak title tags? Stacc auto-optimizes every title for search. No meta descriptions? Stacc writes click-worthy descriptions for every page. Thin content? Stacc publishes 30+ in-depth articles monthly in your brand voice.

Low Domain Rating? Stacc places you in relevant articles and builds contextual backlinks through its partner network. Missing schema markup? Stacc auto-generates LocalBusiness and FAQ schema. No blog section? Stacc builds your entire content calendar from keyword research through publishing. Slow page speed? Stacc optimizes images and content delivery. No GBP activity? Stacc posts to your Google Business Profile daily.

The audit tells you what is wrong. Stacc fixes it automatically — publishing content, optimizing pages, building authority, managing your local presence, and handling social media while you run your business.

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