A site readiness audit is what runs when you paste a URL into bcited.ai/scan or click Run audit on a project. It's a single-request scan that checks 30+ signals across nine categories and grades the result A through F.
The nine categories
- Indexing — robots.txt, sitemap.xml, canonical, X-Robots-Tag, noindex
- Metadata — title, description, lang, viewport, H1
- Social — Open Graph (5 required tags), Twitter Card
- Schema — JSON-LD blocks, Organization, BreadcrumbList, SearchAction
- AEO — llms.txt, ai.txt, AI crawler stance in robots.txt, FAQPage / HowTo / Author schema, citation-friendly content shape
- International — hreflang annotations, language variants
- Mobile — viewport meta, theme-color, apple-touch-icon, manifest
- Security — HSTS, X-Frame-Options, CSP, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, X-Content-Type-Options
- Performance — Core Web Vitals via Google PageSpeed Insights
Tier behavior
Free tier runs one audit per project per month. Pro and Agency get unlimited on-demand runs. Agency adds a scheduled monthly audit that lands in the project's audit history on the 1st of each month at 03:00 UTC.
The result is persisted to D1 (project_audits table) so the dashboard can show a sparkline of grade-over-time — useful for catching regressions after a deploy.