Check Your Website vs a free audit and ChatGPT
This is the alternative most people actually use, so it deserves an honest page rather than a straw man.
Run a free audit, paste the output into ChatGPT, ask what it means and how to fix it. It is free, you already know how to do it, and for plenty of problems it is good enough. If that works for you, use it.
Here is where it stops.
What the free route does well
Free audits are real and widely available. Semrush gives a free account with an audit of up to 100 pages, several GEO tools advertise a free URL audit, and Screaming Frog crawls up to 500 URLs at no cost. Paste any of that into a capable AI assistant and you will get a decent explanation and a plausible fix.
No account to create with us, no new tool to learn, nothing to pay. We are not going to argue that this is worthless, because it isn't.
The three places it breaks
1. You have to know which tool to run and which results matter. To use this route you need to know that these tools exist, which one covers AI readability rather than classic SEO, which of its findings are relevant, and which are noise. That is SEO knowledge. Plenty of people running a website do not have it and are not going to acquire it to fix one page.
2. ChatGPT cannot see your published page afterwards, and does not know whether you did it right. This is the real gap. An assistant can tell you what to change in general. It cannot open your published page and confirm the change landed, is in the right place, and actually moved the thing it was supposed to move. You will make the change and never know whether it worked.
3. A general answer is not your page. The fix an assistant suggests is a pattern, not a diagnosis of your specific HTML. Advice given confidently is easy to mistake for advice that fits — especially when you have no way to check.
Side by side
| Check Your Website | Free audit + ChatGPT | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Free check, no signup | Free |
| Knowledge required | None | You must know which tools to run and which findings matter |
| Evidence from your actual page | Yes — the exact line, tag or missing answer per area | Whatever the audit output happens to include |
| Where in the page to change it | Shown for each change | Generic advice you have to locate yourself |
| Split: publish yourself vs needs a developer | Yes | You work that out |
| After you publish | We re-run the one check your change depended on: fixed / improved / still failing, with the score before and after | Nothing. The assistant cannot see your page |
| Repeatable, comparable score | Deterministic — same page state, same score | An assistant's answer varies between runs |
| Order to work in | Ordered by how much score each change can still win | Whatever you decide |
What we do differently, in one line
We show the evidence from your own page, the exact place to change it, and then we check the published result. That third part is what no free audit and no general assistant gives you.
And because our scoring is deterministic, the before-and-after is comparable. The same page state always produces the same score, so a movement in the number is a movement in the page — not a different mood from a language model.
Which one should you pick
Use the free route if you are comfortable with SEO tooling, you know which findings matter, and you are happy to make a change without confirming it landed.
Use Check Your Website if you want the evidence from your own page, one change at a time in a sensible order, and proof after you publish.
Genuinely: try both on the same URL. Ours costs nothing and needs no signup. If a free audit and an assistant get you further, use them — we would rather you fix your page than use our product.
What we do not claim
We are not smarter than a good AI assistant about the web in general. We do not monitor brand mentions, we are not a ranking report, and we promise no rankings, traffic or citations. What we do is narrow: one exact public URL, measured the same way every time, with the change verified after you publish.
Run a free check on one page
One URL. No signup, nothing to install. Compare it with whatever you are using now.
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