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AuditHQ is an Australian website audit platform for anyone building or maintaining a website. Start with a Full Audit to find observations worth investigating. Review the evidence and priorities before asking your builder or developer to make changes. The nine-suite report brings evidence and priorities together for your own website or client sites.

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A useful report connects the observed issue to a practical fix and a way to check the result.

Illustrative finding with example data. This is not a completed audit or a prediction of your results.

SEO · Illustrative example

Homepage title does not describe the service

Evidence
The example page at your-site.example returns <title>Home</title>.
Why it matters
A generic title gives people little context when deciding whether a search result matches their needs. Any effect on clicks would need measurement.
Action · Suggested owner: content editor
Replace “Home” with an accurate description of the service and company. Publish it through the page title setting in your CMS.
Verification
Inspect the published HTML title, then confirm the title finding in a new audit. Search engines may take time to update or may display a different title.

What AuditHQ does

AuditHQ turns a public website URL into a structured audit across marketing, technical SEO, AI visibility, security, privacy, reputation, social footprint, employer brand, and AI readiness. The output is a ranked action plan, not a loose checklist.

Who it is for

AuditHQ is for anyone building or maintaining a website, whether they use Lovable, Claude, Codex, WordPress, a visual builder or conventional code. First-time builders, owners, in-house teams and agencies can review plain-English priorities and recorded evidence before deciding what to change.

How the audit works

The platform collects crawlable website signals, applies deterministic checks, groups issues by suite, and explains the findings with evidence. The full report includes suite scores, issue detail, quick wins, and a 30/60/90 day action plan.

Why it is different

Single-purpose SEO crawlers often stop at technical warnings. AuditHQ connects SEO, AI visibility, trust, privacy, security, conversion, and reputation signals so teams can see root causes across the whole website experience.

The nine audit suites

Marketing checks public conversion paths, calls to action, trust signals, and messaging clarity. SEO covers Core Web Vitals, crawlability, structured data, and on-page health. AI Visibility checks public crawlability, entity, structure, freshness, and content signals that can support understanding and citation by answer engines; it does not claim to observe every answer engine directly. Security reviews publicly observable HTTPS, headers, email authentication, and exposed-service signals. Privacy checks public policy, cookie, consent, and tracker signals. Reputation, Social Footprint, Employer Brand, and AI Readiness assess publicly observable signals only - they are not substitutes for private operational, HR, legal, or security reviews.

Key terms: what is a website audit?

A website audit is a structured review of a site’s public signals that turns raw checks into prioritised, evidence-backed fixes. AI search readiness refers to whether a website exposes the crawlability, entity, structure, freshness, and content signals that can support understanding and citation by AI search and answer systems. Generative engine optimisation, or GEO, means shaping content and structured data so AI engines quote the site as a source.

Common questions

How long does an audit take? Allow about 30 minutes for the full nine-suite audit; timing varies with scope and queue. Are findings evidence-backed? Automated findings start from recorded website observations or named external sources, and reports show the evidence used so a human can verify it before acting. Some suites infer readiness from public signals and state that scope. Can reports be white-labelled? Yes - the Studio and Agency plans include white-label controls; the A$10 membership uses AuditHQ branding. Is there a contract? No - plans are month-to-month and can be cancelled anytime, with access through the end of the billing period.

What the marketing, technical, and AI visibility suites check in detail

The Marketing suite reviews the homepage value proposition, primary and secondary calls to action, trust signals such as testimonials and client logos, form friction, message-to-market clarity, and whether the page tells a visitor what to do next. The SEO suite measures Core Web Vitals from live Google PageSpeed Insights data - Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, and Interaction to Next Paint - alongside crawlability, XML sitemap health, robots directives, canonical tags, structured data coverage, HTTP status hygiene, image optimisation, and render-blocking resources. The AI Visibility suite audits AI-search readiness rather than claiming to observe every answer engine directly. It inspects crawler access in robots.txt, the presence of an llms.txt file, Schema.org entity coverage, sameAs cross-references, FAQ and question-answer markup, passage-level citability, and freshness signals that can support machine understanding and citation. Observed mention and citation tracking is a separate planned roadmap capability.

What the security, privacy, reputation, social, employer, and AI readiness suites check

The Security suite reviews publicly observable HTTPS, security headers, email authentication, DNS hygiene, and known-vulnerability signals. The Privacy suite reviews public privacy-policy, cookie, consent-banner, and tracker signals; it is not legal advice or a private compliance audit. Reputation and Social Footprint review public review, profile, and trust signals. Employer Brand reviews publicly visible careers, EVP, pay-transparency, and employer-profile signals rather than internal employee experience. AI Readiness reviews publicly visible analytics, automation, customer-facing AI, integration, and governance signals rather than a company’s private systems, data, budget, or staff capability.

How AuditHQ verifies every finding before reporting it

AuditHQ is evidence-first by design. The engine records website observations and named external-source results before AI writes the narrative. AI explains those recorded outcomes; it does not create the underlying observation or score. The report also distinguishes public evidence from inferred readiness signals, because a public website cannot prove what is happening inside a business. Customers should review the attached evidence before acting, and AuditHQ publishes a correction path when a finding is wrong.

Who uses AuditHQ and how

Start with a Full Audit before launch or after a meaningful website update. Review the public observations, decide what deserves attention, and discuss the evidence with your builder or developer. Agencies can use the same workflow for client sites. The full report adds deeper evidence, prioritisation and reporting; it does not automatically edit your website.

Frequently asked questions

How long does an audit take?

Allow about 30 minutes for the full nine-suite audit. Timing varies with scope and queue. Create an account to choose your website and audit scope.

Is this just a website audit?

No. The website is the starting point, but the report covers public signals across visibility, technical health, AI search readiness, security, privacy, reputation, social footprint, and employer brand, then turns them into one prioritised action plan.

Are the findings based on real data or AI guesswork?

Automated findings start from recorded website observations or named external sources. AI explains those recorded outcomes after the checks run. Some suites infer readiness from public signals, so the report states scope and shows evidence for human review.

Will the website owner know I ran an audit on their site?

AuditHQ uses standard read-only HTTP requests against publicly accessible URLs and identifies itself with a recognisable User-Agent. The target site is not notified, no cookies are set on it, and no login is attempted.

Can I white-label the reports with my agency branding?

Yes. Studio and Agency include white-label reports with your logo and brand colours. The A$10 membership uses AuditHQ branding.

Can I cancel a subscription?

Yes, anytime. Plans are month-to-month with no contracts, and access continues until the end of your current billing period.