Features
What the readiness check actually looks at
Roughly seventy checks, grouped into seven weighted categories. Each one asks a plain question about your site. Here is the full list, followed by the tools around it.
Technical Accessibility
Can an AI crawler even get through the front door?
What we look at
- HTTPS coverage and certificate validity
- HTTP status codes and redirect chain length
- noindex directives and page indexability
- robots.txt presence, rules and blanket blocks
- Named AI crawler access (GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended and others)
- XML sitemap discovery and URL count
- llms.txt detection
- Canonical URL coverage and self-reference
- Mobile viewport and language declaration
- Broken internal link sampling
- Image alt-text coverage
- Crawl success rate and server response time
- Number of distinct discoverable pages
Entity Clarity
Could an assistant say who you are, what you sell and who it is for without making it up?
What we look at
- Business name prominence in title, H1 and opening copy
- A plain statement of what the business does
- Explicit definition of the customers served
- Service and product specificity across pages
- Geographic clarity: address, service area, areaServed
- About page substance
- Name consistency across page titles
- Title tag quality and length
- Meta description coverage
- Duplicate title and description detection
- Open Graph and Twitter metadata
Content Authority
Is there enough original, specific writing on your site to count as a source?
What we look at
- Average content depth per page
- Thin and near-empty page detection
- Presence of explanatory or educational content
- Concrete facts and figures versus qualitative claims
- Empty marketing filler detection
- Unsupported superlative detection
- Content freshness and visible dates
- Internal linking depth
- Heading hierarchy and single-H1 structure
- First-party evidence: case studies, original data, customer proof
- Duplicated body copy across templated pages
- Homepage explanatory substance
Answer Readiness
Could one paragraph stand alone as the answer to a question?
What we look at
- Question-shaped headings
- FAQ coverage and FAQPage markup
- Passage sizing — extractable paragraphs
- Lists and tables for structured information
- Explicit term definitions
- Comparison and alternatives content
- Front-loaded answers before elaboration
- Terminology alignment with customer language
- A quotable homepage summary sentence
- Process and how-to content
Structured Data
Is your schema markup valid and filled in, or just a token block?
What we look at
- JSON-LD presence across pages
- Syntactic validity of every block
- Organization or LocalBusiness declaration
- Organization property completeness (logo, description, address, telephone, sameAs)
- sameAs profile links
- WebSite and BreadcrumbList schema
- Content-type schema: Article, BlogPosting, Service, Product, HowTo
- FAQPage markup on FAQ content
- Person and author schema
- Review and AggregateRating markup
- Agreement between schema name and the visible brand
Trust and Evidence
Can a stranger verify that you are real and know your subject?
What we look at
- Published phone, email and postal address
- A dedicated contact page
- Named author attribution on content
- Stated credentials, licenses and expertise
- Outbound citations to authoritative sources
- Source transparency inside the prose
- Customer proof: case studies, testimonials, review markup
- Business legitimacy markers: privacy policy, terms, license number, founding date
- Clear attribution of content to the business
- Publication and update-date disclosure
Competitive Visibility
How do your visible signals stack up against the rivals you name?
What we look at
- Overall homepage signal comparison
- Structured-data coverage versus competitors
- Content depth versus competitors
- Answer-ready structure versus competitors
- Schema types competitors declare that you do not
Platform
Tools for the second run, and the tenth
The check is the core. These are the pieces that make it worth coming back to.
Scores that repeat
Same site, same score. Every time. There is no dice roll and no hidden judgment call, and every point traces back to something we recorded.
Proof behind every finding
Each finding lists what we actually saw: the URLs, the properties, the counts. Open a browser and check us.
A well-behaved crawler
It announces itself and follows your robots.txt. It never fills in a form, never logs in and never runs a downloaded file. Private networks are blocked at the socket level.
A report you can hand over
One PDF with a cover, category scorecards, findings, an action plan, page-by-page notes and the methodology. Numbered pages, clean breaks.
Score history
Fix things, run it again, and see how the number moved since your last check of that domain. Growth and Agency plans.
White-label output
On Agency plans, your client's name and logo go on the cover. A small "Powered by RankClear" line stays in the footer.
CSV export
Pull findings and recommendations into your own spreadsheet or client update. Growth and Agency plans.
Built for more seats later
Accounts, subscriptions, audits and reports are stored separately, so adding teammates down the road will not mean migrating your history.
Optional extras
Two add-ons, always labeled
The check stands on its own without them. When they are switched on, the report tags their output so you always know where a line came from.
AI-polished summaries
With an OpenAI key configured, a model tightens the wording of summaries and explanations. It only gets scores and check results that are already final. It never reads your page content, and it cannot move a score, a status or a piece of evidence. Anything it touches is tagged AI-enhanced.
Public search snapshots
With a search provider configured, RankClear runs a short, fixed set of queries (brand plus service, brand plus location, brand reviews) and notes what shows up in public results. They are tagged public-web observations. They say nothing about what any particular AI model will answer.
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