Free Website Audit
Cendol's free audit checks your website the way crawlers actually experience it and scores it across four pillars: Google Search, AI Assistants, AI Search Results, and Voice Search. Enter your URL on the homepage and the results appear in a minute or two. No signup is required to run it and see your scores and the full issue list.
What the audit checks
The audit fetches your real pages and runs them through the same analysis engine the paid autopilot uses. It scores:
- Google Search (SEO): title and meta tags, canonical correctness (including www vs non-www duplication), heading structure, image alt text, sitemap and robots.txt health, mobile viewport, indexability blockers
- AI Assistants (AEO): whether your content is present in the raw HTML, answer-friendly structure, content depth and readability
- AI Search Results (GEO): structured data for rich results, content signals that AI-generated answers prefer to cite
- Voice Search: basic conversational-query readiness, scored as a minor pillar
Each issue comes with a severity (critical, warning, info) so you can tell the one thing silently capping your rankings from the cosmetic stuff.
The audit reads your site like an AI crawler does
This is the part most free SEO checkers miss. Cendol's audit fetches your raw HTML without executing JavaScript, which is exactly how GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot read your site: a Vercel/MERJ study of over a billion crawler requests confirmed no major AI crawler renders JavaScript. So your audit result is not an abstraction. It is what ChatGPT's crawler actually has to work with when deciding whether to cite you.
If your site is built as a client-rendered JavaScript app, this can be genuinely shocking: a page that looks complete in your browser can be nearly empty HTML to an AI crawler. Better to find that out from a free audit than from months of absent citations. The AEO page explains why this matters so much in 2026.
What's free and what isn't
We'd rather state this plainly than surprise you:
- Free, no account: running the audit, your overall score, all four pillar scores, and the complete list of issues found with severity ratings.
- Free account: the step-by-step fix recommendations for each issue. Creating an account costs nothing.
- Paid plan: having Cendol fix the issues for you automatically and keep fixing them as your site changes. That's the autopilot, from $49/month with a 7-day trial (pricing).
The audit is also simply useful as a free tool. Run it, take the issue list to your developer or your current SEO provider, and fix things by hand if you prefer. No hard feelings; you'll know exactly what needs doing either way.
From audit to autopilot
If you do want the fixes applied automatically, the path is short: pick a plan, connect Google Search Console, and add one DNS record. The setup guide walks through every step including registrar-specific DNS instructions. Once connected, the same issues your audit found start getting corrected in your live HTML, and continuous monitoring re-checks your site on a schedule instead of only when you remember to run an audit.
FAQ
Is the audit really free? What's the catch?
Running it and seeing your scores and issues is free with no signup. The business model is simple: some people who see their issues want them fixed automatically, and that's the paid product. The audit is honest lead generation, not a teaser with the numbers hidden.
How accurate is the score?
The audit uses additive scoring across real checks on your fetched pages, the same engine paying customers see in their dashboard. It measures on-site technical and content factors. It does not measure off-site factors like backlinks or brand mentions, and we don't pretend it does.
Will the audit affect my website?
No. It fetches your pages the way any visitor or crawler would, reads them, and scores them. Nothing is changed, installed, or written to your site.
My score is low. How fast can it improve?
Technical fixes apply within the first hour of connecting the autopilot, and your dashboard score reflects fixed issues quickly. Google re-indexing takes days to weeks, and ranking movement typically shows over 4 to 12 weeks. We set that expectation up front because trust survives honesty, not hype.