CommitSEO

What CommitSEO actually checks

Every audit runs the same 61 deterministic checks across 7 dimensions against your site - technical foundations, structured data, content architecture, Core Web Vitals, sitemap hygiene, local SEO, and AI visibility. No proprietary black-box score. Every finding names the exact rule that fired and the exact value it found.

Honest framing: most of what follows is deterministic code, not AI guessing - the same check always fires the same way on the same page. We only bring in a language model where judgment is genuinely required (rewriting a title, drafting a meta description, filling in structured data) - and even then, every write is verified by re-fetching the live page afterward, and every change ships with its own undo.

The 7 dimensions

Grouped by what they protect - from "can search engines read this page at all" to "does anyone ask ChatGPT about you."

01

Technical foundations

The baseline every search engine checks before anything else - if this layer is broken, nothing downstream matters.

  • Title tag present and within the length search results actually display
  • Placeholder page titles ("Home - Company") instead of a real description of the page
  • Broken meta descriptions (a stray value such as "100%") that Google may display
  • Meta description present, right length, shown with its real current text
  • Exactly one clear H1 - not missing, not duplicated
  • Skipped heading levels (H1 straight to H3) that confuse how content gets chunked by readers and AI alike
  • Canonical URL present, self-referencing, not pointing cross-domain or to a dead page
  • Pages marked noindex that still receive real search clicks (a contradiction worth catching)
  • Mixed HTTP/HTTPS links, multi-hop redirect chains, missing compression
  • Accessibility score from Lighthouse - contrast, form labels, button and link names
  • Images, scripts and styles loaded over plain HTTP on an HTTPS page - browsers block or warn about them
  • Missing server security headers (HSTS, Content-Security-Policy and others) - reported once for the whole site
  • Duplicate titles and meta descriptions across the site
22 checks
02

Structured data & social sharing

What machines - search engines and AI assistants alike - read to understand what a page actually is, beyond the visible text.

  • JSON-LD present on the page at all
  • Each schema type checked against Google's actual required fields (Product, Article, LocalBusiness, FAQPage, Review, and 7 more)
  • Site-wide structured data coverage - what % of pages carry any schema, and which types
  • Open Graph tags present (title, description, image)
  • Open Graph content that exists but looks broken - a stray value leaked from a template instead of real copy
5 checks
03

Content quality & site architecture

Whether the right pages exist, are reachable, and aren't quietly competing against each other.

  • Images missing alt text
  • Thin pages that still attract real search traffic
  • Pages whose title doesn't match what they're actually ranking for
  • An existing page ranking in the top 20 for a real query, worth strengthening rather than replacing
  • Real search demand with no page that properly serves it at all - a candidate for a brand-new post
  • Pages ranking with real demand but underperforming the click-through rate expected at that position
  • Orphan pages nothing on the site links to internally
  • Pages buried five or more clicks deep from the homepage
  • About and contact pages present - a basic sign that a real, reachable business stands behind the site
  • Organization structured data linked to official profiles (sameAs), so search engines and AI recognise the same entity
  • Articles with no sign of being updated for over two years
  • Broken internal links
  • Keyword cannibalization - caught two ways: from real Search Console click data, and from content similarity alone, before it even shows up in rankings
  • Related pages that should link to each other but don't yet
  • Hreflang tags validated on sites with more than one language version
  • Content Effort Score - lists, tables, video, images, bold terms, heading structure, and no walls of unbroken text
  • Pages losing real search clicks over time - a trend signal, not just a snapshot
  • Pages dropping in average search position week-over-week - caught fast, not after months
  • Internal links using generic anchor text ("click here", "read more") instead of descriptive copy
  • Internal links accidentally marked nofollow, wasting your own site's link equity
22 checks
04

Performance (Core Web Vitals)

Google's own ranking signals for how a page actually feels to load and use, not just whether it eventually renders.

  • Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) - how long the main content takes to appear
  • Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS) - whether elements jump around while loading
  • Interaction to Next Paint (INP) - how fast the page responds to clicks
  • Images missing explicit width/height - a direct, fixable root cause of layout shift
4 checks
05

Sitemap & indexing hygiene

Whether Google's map of your site actually matches what's real - a mismatch here silently caps everything above it.

  • Pages with real traffic missing from the sitemap entirely
  • Sitemap entries missing a last-modified date
  • Pages that get traffic but Google isn't actually indexing
  • Sitemap entries pointing to a 404
  • Sitemap entries pointing to a noindex page
5 checks
06

Local SEO (NAP consistency)

For any business with a physical presence, the one signal Google cross-checks hardest against your Google Business Profile.

  • Name, address, and phone number present in structured data at all
  • NAP details consistent across every page of the same business - a mismatch is a trust signal Google weighs directly
2 checks
07

AI visibility (GEO/AEO)

A newer, separate question from the six above: when someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Perplexity a question your business should answer, do you ever come up?

  • Whether robots.txt is silently blocking AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) from reading the site at all
  • Whether the model mentions your brand or site at all for a relevant prompt
  • Whether it cites your domain directly, not just a competitor's
  • Tracked across multiple AI providers over time, not a single one-off check
1 check + ongoing tracking per prompt

We don't just score it - we fix it

Most audit tools stop at a report. CommitSEO's whole reason to exist is the next step: it writes the fix to your live site, confirms it actually went through by re-fetching the page, and keeps a full history so any single change can be undone in one click - even months later.

01

Audit finds the issue, with the exact value that's wrong

02

A proposal shows the before/after, ready for your approval

03

Applied to your site, then verified by fetching the live URL

04

Kept or reverted: a change that doesn't show up live is undone automatically, and one that hurts traffic or errors is flagged for you to undo

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