What is the Combined Home Page Audit?
| What it answers | Run the free SEO, AEO and GEO audits on one URL and get three independent scores. |
|---|---|
| How the answer is produced | The audit starts with a single crawler fetch of the URL you enter. |
| What you need to enter | Paste the URL you want to audit — usually your home page or a high-traffic landing page. |
| Where it stops being reliable | The audit reads the server-rendered HTML. |
| Cost and sign-up | Free, runs in your browser, no account and no stored inputs. |
How the combined SEO, AEO and GEO audit works?
The audit starts with a single crawler fetch of the URL you enter. It reads the HTTP response, the raw HTML, and the robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt files on the same host. That one fetch is then fed into three separate scoring engines so the results stay independent.
The SEO engine runs twelve checks on access and on-page signals: status and redirects, indexability directives in the meta tag and the X-Robots-Tag header, a self-referencing canonical, title and description length, a single H1, heading order, internal links, image alt text, structured data validity and sitemap membership.
The AEO engine runs seven answer-engine checks: a short direct answer near the top, a bulleted key-facts block, section headings written as questions, a facts table or list, stated authorship, a published or reviewed date, and valid structured data that supports a quoted answer.
The GEO engine runs seven generative-engine checks: named sources and citations, original data or method, clear entity definitions, AI-crawler access in robots.txt, an llms.txt file, publisher and author schema, and a stated last-checked date that signals freshness.
Each engine returns its own 0–100 score, band, verdict and ranked fix list. The scores are not averaged, because the work required to fix each area is different: SEO failures are usually template or configuration changes, AEO failures are usually content-structure changes, and GEO failures are usually evidence or authorship changes.
How do you use the Combined Home Page Audit?
- 1.Paste the URL you want to audit — usually your home page or a high-traffic landing page.
- 2.Click 'Run combined audit' and wait a few seconds while the page and its host files are fetched.
- 3.Read the three scorecards side by side. Start with the SEO score, because answer engines cannot quote a page that search cannot retrieve.
- 4.Open the failing checks in each area to see the evidence we found and the exact correction steps.
- 5.Download the PDF report if you want to share the results or track changes after you edit the page.
What can this tool not tell you?
- The audit reads the server-rendered HTML. Content that only appears after client-side rendering may be missed, which is itself a useful signal.
- A perfect score is technical eligibility, not a ranking or citation guarantee. Authority, originality, competition and demand still decide outcomes.
- AEO and GEO checks are practical heuristics based on how answer engines currently select and cite sources. They are reviewed periodically and are not an official published standard.
Why a single fetch feeds three separate analyses?
Most free audit tools either look at SEO only or blend every signal into one opaque number. The combined audit keeps the three scores separate because the three disciplines answer different questions. SEO asks 'Can this page be retrieved and understood by a classical search engine?' AEO asks 'Can an answer engine lift a self-contained answer from this page?' GEO asks 'Would a generative model trust this page enough to cite it?'
Keeping them separate also reveals the right order of work. A page with a strong AEO score but a weak SEO score is usually a content problem waiting for a technical unlock: the writing is already answerable, but search cannot reliably retrieve it. Fix the canonical, indexability or rendering issue and the AEO value is released. Conversely, a page with strong SEO but weak AEO is already being retrieved; it just needs the content restructured into direct answers and question headings.
The single-fetch design is deliberate efficiency. Crawling a page is the expensive part; running three rule-based analyses on the same HTML is cheap. By fetching once and scoring thrice, the combined audit gives you a complete picture of one URL in seconds rather than making three separate requests.
What do worked examples look like?
A service-page that ranks but is never quoted
SEO scores 88, AEO scores 42. The page is indexable and well-linked, but it opens with a paragraph of positioning language and has no facts table. The fix is to add a 40–80 word direct answer under the H1, rewrite the H2s as questions, and add a structured comparison table.
A research blog that AI tools ignore
SEO scores 76, GEO scores 35. The content is original and well-written, but there is no author schema, no named sources, and AI crawlers are blocked in robots.txt. The fix is to add publisher and author structured data, name the datasets used, and allow the relevant AI agents.
What do people ask most about this tool?
What is the difference between SEO, AEO and GEO?
SEO decides whether a search engine can crawl, index and rank your page. AEO decides whether an answer engine can lift a clean, self-contained answer from it. GEO decides whether a generative model will name you as the source of that answer. A page can pass one and fail the other two.
Why are the scores kept separate instead of averaged?
Averaging would hide the real work. A missing canonical is a developer fix, a missing direct answer is a writing fix, and a missing source citation is an editorial-policy fix. Separate scores show exactly who should do what.
Is this audit really free?
Yes. Auditing one page with all three areas is free and needs no account. Only the Complete Website Audit, which scores every page in your sitemap, is a paid product.
Which page should I audit first?
Start with your home page or your highest-traffic landing page. Those pages shape how search engines, answer engines and generative models understand the rest of your site.
What happens to my URL after I submit it?
Nothing is stored. The URL is fetched once, analysed in memory, and the results are returned to your browser. If you leave the page, the data is gone.
Which related tools should you try next?
Written and reviewed by Jim Vernon, Editor, AI Intelligence International. Published by AI Answer Engine, a service of AI Intelligence International, and checked against our editorial standards.