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How to Use the Technical Audit

Scan your website for technical issues that prevent AI from recommending you.

Written by Jason
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The Technical Audit checks your website for technical problems that stop AI engines from finding and recommending your content. It covers both traditional SEO basics and AI-specific readiness.

How to run an audit

  1. Go to Audit in the Optimize section

  2. Enter a page URL for a single page audit, or your domain for a site-wide audit

  3. Click Run Audit

  4. Results appear in minutes

What it checks

6 HTML categories (traditional SEO health)

  • Meta Title: Is it between 50–60 characters? Does it include your target keyword?

  • Meta Description: Is it between 150–160 characters? Does it describe the page clearly?

  • Schema Markup: Do you have JSON-LD structured data? Which types?

  • Images: Do your images have alt text?

  • Links: Do you have internal links (3+)? External links? Any broken links?

  • Overall Score: Average of all 5 categories, 0–100

7-category LLM Readiness Score (AI-specific)

This is the important one. Shown as a radar chart with weighted categories:

  • Structured Data (25%): JSON-LD schema present and properly configured

  • Content Clarity (20%): Clear H1, multiple H2s, well-structured paragraphs

  • Authority Signals (15%): Author info, canonical URL, datePublished

  • Citation-Friendly Format (15%): Lists, tables, FAQ sections that AI can easily extract

  • Technical Accessibility (10%): No noindex tags blocking AI, viewport set, language declared

  • Internal Linking (10%): Enough internal links pointing to and from the page

  • Freshness (5%): dateModified and datePublished present in schema

Framework detection

GRRO automatically detects if your site runs on Next.js, WordPress, Gatsby, Nuxt, or static HTML.
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Fix recommendations include framework-specific instructions. For example, if you're on Next.js, it'll tell you to set meta tags in generateMetadata() in your layout.tsx.

Site-wide audits

For a full site audit, GRRO crawls your sitemap and audits every page. Results show in a sortable table so you can prioritize the worst-scoring pages first.

Exporting results

Export your audit in 5 formats:

  • Copy Prompt: Copies a structured prompt to paste into AI tools for fix suggestions

  • Markdown: Downloadable .md file

  • PDF Report: Branded PDF with scores, tables, and color-coded issues

  • Slide Deck (PPTX): Presentation-ready slides for sharing with your team

  • Spreadsheet (CSV): One row per issue for tracking fixes

Tips

  • Fix LLM Readiness issues first — these directly affect whether AI can recommend you.

  • Re-audits run automatically every Sunday. Check back weekly to track improvement.

  • If your overall LLM Readiness Score is below 50, focus on Structured Data and Content Clarity first — they carry the most weight.

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