Free SEO Score by SearchScore

Your SEO Score
in 30 Seconds

Enter any URL for a free, in-depth SEO audit. We score your site out of 100 across 8 categories and 250+ signals, then hand you a ranked list of the fixes that matter most. No signup, no card, no email.

Free audit - no signup needed. Results in ~30 seconds.

πŸ“Š 8 scoring categories
βœ… 250+ signals
πŸ“ˆ Benchmarked vs 1,000,000+ sites
πŸ”’ Hard-capped scoring

What is SEO?

Search engine optimisation (SEO)
SEO is the practice of improving a website so that search engines can crawl it, understand it and rank it highly for the terms your audience is searching for. It spans the technical health of your site, the way each page is structured and written, the depth and relevance of your content, and the trust signals that tell search engines you are a credible source. Done well, it earns you steady organic traffic without paying for every click.

Does SEO still matter in 2026? Yes. Search is still where most buying journeys begin, and organic listings remain the largest source of durable, compounding traffic for most businesses. The fundamentals that make a page rank - fast, crawlable, well-structured, genuinely useful, and trustworthy - are also exactly what modern AI answer engines look for. Get the SEO foundations right and you are building on ground that pays off across both traditional search and the newer AI surfaces.

Why your SEO score matters

Your score is a plain-English read on how visible your site is to the people searching for what you offer.

Organic traffic is the traffic you do not pay for twice. A page that ranks keeps earning visits long after it is published, while paid clicks stop the moment the budget does. A weak SEO score is a warning that this compounding channel is leaking.

Rankings decide who gets seen. The top handful of organic results capture the overwhelming majority of clicks. If technical issues, thin content or missing signals are holding your pages down the results, competitors take the traffic that could have been yours.

Discoverability is the whole game. The best product or service is invisible if search engines cannot crawl it, cannot understand it, or do not trust it. Your SEO score turns that risk into a single number you can act on - and a fix list that tells you exactly where to start.

Three steps to your SEO score

No accounts, no waiting. Enter a URL and get an actionable SEO score in about 30 seconds.

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Enter your URL

Paste any website address. We fetch and analyse the live page, so you always get real-time results.

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We run the checks

250+ signals across technical health, on-page structure, content, crawler access, page speed and trust - benchmarked against 1,000,000+ sites.

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Get your score and fixes

Your SEO score out of 100 with a clear tier label, plus a ranked list of the highest-impact improvements to make first.

The 8 categories we score

Every SEO score is built from eight categories. The four High-weight categories carry the most influence, because they most directly decide whether a page can be crawled, understood and ranked. Hard caps stop a strong showing in one area from masking a critical failure in another.

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High weight
Technical

HTTPS, canonical tags, XML sitemap, robots.txt, hreflang, security headers, page speed and overall crawlability - the foundations that let a search engine reach and index your pages.

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High weight
On-Page

Title tags, meta descriptions, Open Graph tags, heading structure, image alt text and schema markup - the signals that tell engines what each page is about.

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High weight
Content

Depth, search-intent match, freshness and quality - whether the page genuinely answers what the searcher came for, and does it better than the alternatives.

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High weight
AI / Crawler

AI bot access in robots.txt, an llms.txt file, answer-first formatting and rich schema - so both search crawlers and AI answer engines can read and reuse your content.

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Standard weight
User Experience

Mobile friendliness, a correct viewport, skip links and font-display handling - the on-page experience signals that keep visitors, and engines, happy.

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Standard weight
Topical Authority

Heading structure, content depth, internal linking and topic hubs - the breadth and interlinking that show you cover a subject thoroughly, not just in passing.

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Standard weight
Authority

Outbound links to credible sources and a visible social and LinkedIn presence - external signals that support your standing as a real, connected entity.

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Standard weight
E-E-A-T

A named author with a bio, clear contact details, an About page and visible credentials - the experience, expertise, authority and trust signals search engines reward.

What you get

Clear, honest output you can act on the same day - not a vanity number.

A score out of 100

A single, benchmarked SEO score that tells you at a glance how well-optimised your site is compared with the field.

A plain-English tier label

Your score maps to one of five bands, so you know instantly whether you are Excellent, Strong, Moderate, Weak or Critical.

A ranked, prioritised fix list

The specific issues found on your site, ordered by impact, so you fix what moves the needle first instead of guessing.

80-100 Excellent 60-79 Strong 40-59 Moderate 20-39 Weak 0-19 Critical

Why SearchScore is different

Most SEO checkers grade against opinion. We grade against evidence, and we publish our method.

1,000,000+

Benchmarked against real data

Your score is judged against one of the largest public datasets of scored websites, so it reflects how you compare with the real field - not an arbitrary checklist.

Published

A transparent method

Every category, signal and threshold is documented. You can read exactly how the score is calculated in our published methodology.

Hard-capped

Scores you can trust

Critical failures like a blocked robots.txt or missing HTTPS cap your score. A serious issue cannot be hidden behind strong performance elsewhere.

SEO audit questions, answered

What is a good SEO score?
SearchScore rates websites out of 100 in five bands: 80-100 Excellent, 60-79 Strong, 40-59 Moderate, 20-39 Weak and 0-19 Critical. Aim for 80 or above. Most sites land in the Moderate band, so a Strong score already puts you ahead of the field.
Is the SEO audit really free?
Yes. The audit is completely free with no signup, no card and no email required. Enter a URL and you get your score and fix list in about 30 seconds.
How is the SEO score calculated?
Your score is a weighted result across 8 categories and 250+ individual signals, benchmarked against a dataset of 1,000,000+ websites. Scoring is hard-capped, so a serious problem like a blocked robots.txt or missing HTTPS cannot be masked by strong performance elsewhere.
Does the audit check Core Web Vitals and page speed?
Yes. Page performance and Core Web Vitals signals are assessed as part of the Technical category, alongside HTTPS, canonical tags, sitemaps, robots.txt and crawlability.
How often should I check my SEO score?
Checking monthly is sensible for most sites. Always re-run the audit after a redesign, a migration, a content overhaul or any significant technical change, so you can confirm nothing regressed.
What is the difference between SEO and AI search visibility?
SEO is about ranking in traditional search engines such as Google and Bing. AI search visibility, which SearchScore measures separately as a GEO score, is about being surfaced and cited by AI answer engines such as ChatGPT and Perplexity. This page scores traditional SEO.
Which categories does the SEO score cover?
Eight: Technical, On-Page, Content, AI and Crawler access, User Experience, Topical Authority, Authority and E-E-A-T. The first four carry higher weight because they most directly affect whether a page can be crawled, understood and ranked.
Do I get help fixing the issues?
Yes. Alongside your score and tier label you get a ranked, prioritised fix list, so you know which changes will move the needle most and can act on the highest-impact issues first.

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Free for any website. Results in under 30 seconds. No account needed.

Auditing your site...
Running 250+ SEO checks. This takes about 30 seconds.
Fetching your page
Measuring page speed
Checking technical SEO
Analysing content and on-page signals
Scoring and ranking fixes