SEO Checker – Analyze Any Page in Seconds

Open the SEO Checker

Head to the SEO Checker page from the dashboard sidebar (under Main). You land on a centered card titled SEO Checker with the line Enter a URL to analyze its SEO performance across 15+ categories. Below it is a single search box where you can paste the address of any page you want to audit. No account is required to get started.

• URL box: A single text field with a fixed https:// prefix shown inside it on the left and the placeholder example.com. You only type the domain or path; the prefix is added for you.
• Desktop and Mobile icons: Two square toggle buttons to the right of the box, a monitor icon and a phone icon. The selected one is highlighted in the brand gold; Desktop is selected by default.
• Analyze button: The gold action button at the far right. It stays disabled (greyed out) until you enter a valid-looking URL, then turns gold and clickable. Pressing Enter in the box does the same thing.

Enter the page and pick a device

In the URL box, type or paste the page you want to check (for example, type example.com after the https:// prefix). Use the Desktop and Mobile icons beside the box to choose which version to audit. As soon as the URL looks valid, the Analyze button turns gold and becomes clickable. Mobile results reflect how Google sees your site on phones.

• Desktop view: Audits the full desktop rendering of the page. This is the default and is best when your traffic is mostly desktop.
• Mobile view: Audits the mobile rendering instead. Because Google indexes mobile-first, this is the version most pages should optimize for.
• What makes a URL valid: Any domain with a real extension works, with or without https:// and with or without a path (for example example.com, https://example.com, or example.com/blog). Until the text matches that shape, Analyze stays disabled.

Run the analysis

Click Analyze. The report opens at /seo-checker/report and a live scan begins, evaluating the page category by category. While it works, the Analyze button shows a spinner and the report area shows shimmering placeholders. Scores populate in real time in the left sidebar as each check completes.

Get oriented: the report toolbar

Once the report opens, a toolbar runs across the top and stays visible in every section. From left to right it shows your branding, the analyzed URL, when the page and DNS were last scanned, and the action buttons. Here is what each part does:

• Brand logo and URL: The DefiniteSEO (or your white-label) logo, then the analyzed URL. A small pencil icon next to the URL takes you back to the search box to edit and re-run a different address.
• Page and DNS timestamps: Two lines reading, for example, Page: 2 minutes ago and DNS: a month ago, each with the scan duration in seconds when available. They tell you how fresh each part of the report is. Page and DNS are scanned separately, so their ages can differ.
• Recheck Page (gold): Re-runs the on-page and performance scan only. Use it after you publish content or speed fixes. It is disabled while a scan is already running.
• Recheck DNS (dark): Re-runs only the domain and network checks (DNS records, mail authentication, network security). These change rarely, so you rarely need it.

Review your overall SEO score

When the scan finishes, the OverView shows your results in three columns. On the left is a large colored dial reading Overview Score out of 100, with a Critical error / Recommended / Improved breakdown beneath it. The middle column lists every category as a colored bar. The right column shows a page screenshot, the selected keyword, and key page stats. Select any category in the sidebar to open its full detail.

• Overview Score dial: The big ring labeled Overview Score shows your overall score out of 100. The arc and number are green above 70, orange (amber) between 30 and 70, and red at 30 or below, a weighted blend of every category.
• Critical error count (red): A red tile with a number and a progress bar counting how many categories scored 30 or below. These are your most urgent fixes.
• Recommended count (orange): An orange tile counting categories scoring between 30 and 70: worth improving but not critical.
• Improved count (green): A green tile counting categories scoring above 70, the ones already in good shape.

Read the left sidebar

The left sidebar is how you move around the report. OverView sits at the top, followed by four collapsible groups: On Page SEO, Technical, Domain & Network, and AI. Each category row shows an icon, its name, and a small colored score chip so you can spot weak areas at a glance. The active section is highlighted with a gold left-edge bar.

• On Page SEO group: Holds Common SEO, Keywords, Content, Links, Images, and Video, the on-page signals you directly control in your page markup and copy.
• Technical group: Holds Performance, Security, Accessibility, and Usability, the engineering-side health of the page.
• Domain & Network group: Holds Domain and Networking, the foundations behind the page: registration signals plus DNS and network security.
• AI group: Holds AI Visibility and Agentic Browsing, how AI search engines and AI agents see and act on your page.

Inspect on-page factors (Common SEO)

In the sidebar, click Common SEO to review the fundamental on-page signals such as the title tag, meta description, headings, canonical, and structured data. The section opens with a category score dial and its own Critical error / Recommended / Improved tiles on the left, a breadcrumb (On Page SEO / Common SEO) and an All Test count at the top, and one row per check. Each row has a colored status dot, the check name (with a ? help icon), the result message, and an info (i) icon with how-to-fix guidance.

• Status dot (red / orange / green): The colored dot at the start of each row is the check's severity: red is critical, orange is a recommendation, green is passing. Rows are sorted with the most urgent first.
• ? help icon and (i) info icon: The ? next to a check name explains what the check is. The (i) at the end of the result message explains how to fix it. Both are also keyboard-reachable.
• Meta Title: Checks your page has a title tag of a good length (about 51-60 characters). It is what users see in search results and strongly affects clicks.
• Meta Description: Checks for a clear page summary (about 105-160 characters), which forms the snippet shown under your title in search results.

Check your content quality

Click Content to evaluate the depth and readability of your copy, including word count, heading structure, and keyword usage. This shows whether the page gives search engines enough to work with. As with every section, the left dial scores the category and each row scores one check; some checks expand to show extra detail (for example the Heading Tag row lists your H1 text).

• Content Length: Measures total word count, since in-depth content tends to rank better and hold attention.
• Paragraph Count: Checks the page is broken into enough paragraphs for comfortable reading.
• Stop Words: Checks the balance of common filler words (around 50-60 percent is natural), so content reads well without over-optimizing.
• Bold and Strong Tags: Looks for emphasized text that highlights key phrases and improves scannability.

Check page performance

Click Performance to see load speed and Core Web Vitals from a Lighthouse scan. The Core Web Vital rows show their measured value (for example 0.2 s or 0 ms) as an emphasized colored number rather than a sentence, while diagnostic rows such as network or minification expand into small detail tables. The All Test count at the top is higher here because performance runs many audits.

• Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): Time until the largest visible element loads. A Core Web Vital that Google uses for ranking.
• Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): How much the layout unexpectedly shifts while loading. A Core Web Vital for visual stability.
• Total Blocking Time (TBT): How long the page is blocked from responding to input. A Core Web Vital for interactivity.
• First Contentful Paint (FCP): Time until the first content appears, which shapes how fast the page feels.

See your AI Visibility

Click AI Visibility to see how likely your content is to be surfaced and cited by AI assistants and answer engines such as Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT Search, Bing Copilot, and Perplexity. A grey banner at the top reminds you that this score is an eligibility estimate based on on-page signals (AI citation is probabilistic; the same question can surface different sources). The section groups its checks into three areas: whether AI crawlers can reach you (retrievability), whether they can understand and quote you (extractability), and basic machine-readability (hygiene). Rows like E-E-A-T Signals and AI Bot Access expand into a bulleted to-do list or a per-bot breakdown.

• Google Cluster Readiness: Confirms Googlebot and Google-Extended are allowed in your robots.txt. This powers Google Search, AI Overviews, and AI Mode, so blocking it removes you from Google AI answers.
• Bing Cluster Readiness: Confirms the Bing and OpenAI family of crawlers (Bingbot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot) can reach you. These feed Bing Copilot, ChatGPT Search, and Perplexity.
• AI Bot Access: A per-bot breakdown of which AI crawlers you allow or block, and whether each affects live search visibility or only model training. It lists each bot with its assumed or verified status.
• Content in Raw HTML: Checks your main content is in the initial HTML rather than loaded later by JavaScript, since many AI crawlers do not run scripts.

Review Agentic Browsing readiness

Click Agentic Browsing to see how well AI agents can navigate and act on your page. This is a growing factor as assistants start completing tasks on the web. Its checks cover the accessibility tree agents read, your llms.txt, WebMCP tool/form/schema support, and layout stability. Unlike AI Visibility, this section does count toward your overall SEO score.

• Agent Accessibility Tree: AI agents read your page through its accessibility tree. This checks interactive elements have clear names and valid roles so agents can act reliably.
• Cumulative Layout Shift: A stable layout matters for agents too: elements that move after load can make an agent act on the wrong target. The row expands into a small table of layout-shift values per frame.
• llms.txt: Looks for an llms.txt file, which lets you give AI agents curated, machine-readable guidance about your most important pages.
• WebMCP Registered Tools: WebMCP is a standard that lets your page expose defined commands (tools) an agent can call. This reports the tools your page registers.

Save, share, or re-run your report

Your report toolbar stays available as you work. Click Recheck Page, Recheck DNS, or Recheck All to re-scan on demand, or click Export Report to open the export dialog. From there you can Download HTML, Copy shareable link, or Send to Email. Returning to OverView shows the refreshed scores after any recheck.

• Download HTML: Generates a self-contained HTML copy of the report and saves it to your downloads, branded with your white-label logo and colors when configured.
• Copy shareable link: Copies a public /seo-report link to your clipboard that anyone can open to view this report, no login required.
• Send to Email: Asks for an email address and sends a link to the report straight to that inbox.
• Recheck after changes: Use Recheck Page after publishing content or speed fixes; the toolbar timestamps update to show the new scan age and the scores refresh in place.