A website SEO check for every business you run

Your homepage as your server sends it, along with your robots.txt, sitemap and llms.txt, Google's PageSpeed test on mobile and, where Google has enough Chrome visitors, the speed real visitors get. It runs 24 scored checks in five areas, weighted out of 100: Found by Google 25, Search appearance 25, Ready for AI answers 20, Speed & mobile 15 and Business details 15. Ready for AI answers asks whether your robots.txt lets in the search crawlers of ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Apple, whether your page lets Google show a preview of it, which Google's AI Overviews need, and whether your words are in the page itself, since the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity read only the HTML your server sends, without running JavaScript. The check also spots Framer, WordPress, Squarespace, Wix, Webflow and Shopify sites and words some fixes for that builder.

No. The check reads your homepage only, and a strong homepage can sit beside weak pages. We found that on our own site. In late September 2026 the check scored the aventide.ai homepage between 92 and 95 while five other pages had no title of their own. Google's view of our homepage showed it indexed, last crawled September 27, with no sitemap ever submitted, and Search Console's 28 days to September 26 held 63 impressions and 1 click. We submitted the sitemap on September 30, and by October 11 Search Console listed it with 50 addresses. So treat the score as your homepage's health, and check your other key pages in Search Console too.

Each check scores full, half or no marks, and a check that doesn't apply to your site, such as image descriptions on a page with no images, is left out rather than counted. Caps then keep the color honest: a homepage that returns an error can't score above 20, one that tells Google not to show it can't pass 40, any major problem keeps the score at 74 or below, and any one area under 50 keeps it at 89 or below. So red (under 50), amber (50 to 74) and green (75 and up) mean what they look like, and 90 or more means no area is weak. When a cap applies, the card says so, for example "Capped at 89: One area needs work: Speed & mobile". The card also shows the change since your last check and a trend line of up to your last 10.

Google's Lighthouse test, which PageSpeed Insights runs, gives a page an SEO score of its own. The card shows it beside yours as "Google's own SEO check", with a note that 90 or more is typical for modern site builders, and it is never added into your Aventide score. The two measure different things: yours also weighs whether AI search crawlers may visit, whether your business details are in structured data and how fast the page loads for real visitors. Kept apart, each number moves on its own, and you can see which one did. The same card puts your speed in plain words, such as how long your main content takes to appear for real visitors.

Once Search Console is connected, the tab lists real searches your site appeared for in the last 28 days, each with its clicks, impressions and where you usually place, in words such as "usually on page 2 of Google". It tags four kinds worth a look: Almost page 1 (places 4 to 20, with at least 20 impressions), Few clicks for its spot, New this month, and Question, for searches that start like a question or include words such as "near me", "cost" or "best". Five show first and up to 40 are kept, and anything that looks like an email address or phone number is dropped before it is saved. Click Track to watch a search, up to 25, with its change against the 28 days before. Near you shows the ones that name a place from your business's own location or service area.

Google's view of your homepage answers that from Search Console's own URL Inspection. A plain headline names the worst blocker first: a robots.txt rule, a noindex tag or header, then a fetch problem such as a 404, a server error or a firewall that turned Google away, and only then Google's verdict, from "Google has this page indexed" to "This page is not on Google yet". Under it come Google's own status line, when it last crawled the page and as which crawler, the address Google chose as the official one (flagged when it differs from yours), your submitted sitemaps, or a note that there are none, and the rich results Google found. Opening it asks Google again once the last answer is a day old, and so does Check again; it links to the same check in Search Console and never uses credits.

A site score says whether your site is built to be found, not whether anyone finds it, so the tab keeps the two apart. The "Are people finding you?" card shows your own numbers for the last 28 days, each with its change against the 28 days before: clicks and impressions from Search Console, where you usually place, and sessions and engaged sessions from Analytics, with your top pages a click away. Search Console runs about three days behind, and the card says when it last updated. There is no visibility score, because a fair one would need how many people search each phrase and how strong the other results are. Aventide doesn't have that data, so it doesn't guess.

This week, just under your score, lists three next steps, each tagged Fix, Connect or Grow, with the most urgent first. See the fix opens that finding, which says what is wrong and why it matters, in plain words. Below the score, findings are sorted into Fix this first, Worth fixing, Small improvements, For your information and Working well, so a long list never buries the one that matters. Where the check knows your site builder, a fix says where to make it, and says plainly when the builder won't allow it: Squarespace, for instance, doesn't let you edit robots.txt on any plan. After a change, click Rescan; each business gets one completed check every 10 minutes.

Weekly SEO insights is a scheduled document in Do. It compares your latest site check with the one before, your Search Console and Analytics numbers with the 28 days before, and the searches you watch, then writes a headline, what moved, the one to three fixes most worth doing and up to three ideas, and saves the report in your Workspace. Click Run now for one report, or turn on Weekly for one every Monday at 08:00 in your business's time zone. Each run uses 150 credits, and a run that doesn't finish puts its credits back. It never invents keyword volumes or rankings, and it never reads a high score as being found. When a weekly report is ready, Sidekick can tell you in your linked chat app.