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Every check in a CitedBy audit

CitedBy runs 111 checks on a site: 14 can be an error, 43 a warning and 54 a notice. Each has its own page with what it finds, the exact change, an example where one helps, and how often we have seen it.

Seen: “4% · 0%” is Show HN sites · Lovable sites in the launch crawl; “3/4 · 1 false alarm” is a finding judged right on 3 of our 4 audited sites and wrong on 1.

As of 24 October 2026 · engine version 12 · 111 checks · Download the JSON · Checks by the day they went live

AI crawler access (17)

CheckSeverityAddedSeen
Site is not served over HTTPSErrorBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Pages return an error statusErrorBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
robots.txt blocks ChatGPT-UserErrorBefore 19 Oct 20260% · 0%
robots.txt blocks Claude-SearchBotErrorBefore 19 Oct 20260% · 0%
robots.txt blocks Claude-UserErrorBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
robots.txt blocks OAI-SearchBotErrorBefore 19 Oct 20260% · 0%
robots.txt blocks Perplexity-UserErrorBefore 19 Oct 20260% · 0%
robots.txt blocks PerplexityBotErrorBefore 19 Oct 20260% · 0%
Your firewall or CDN refuses AI search crawlersErrorBefore 19 Oct 20261% · 0%
No llms-full.txt (optional)NoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
llms.txt points at pages that crawlers cannot useNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
No llms.txt (optional)NoticeBefore 19 Oct 202666% · 82%
robots.txt blocks CCBotNoticeBefore 19 Oct 20264% · 0%
robots.txt blocks ClaudeBotNoticeBefore 19 Oct 20263% · 0%
robots.txt blocks Google-ExtendedNoticeBefore 19 Oct 20263% · 0%
robots.txt blocks GPTBotNoticeBefore 19 Oct 20264% · 0%
Your firewall or CDN refuses AI training crawlersNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet

Content and readability (10)

CheckSeverityAddedSeen
Page is empty without JavaScriptErrorBefore 19 Oct 202614% · 73%
Duplicate or near-duplicate contentWarning19 October 20263/4 · 1 false alarm
Scripts change or remove what the page saysWarning24 October 20261/4
Product or item list loads with JavaScriptWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Prices appear only after scripts runWarning24 October 2026Not measured yet
Page is set to noindexWarningBefore 19 Oct 20263/4
Long redirect chainWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Thin contentWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
The page opens with source and date linesNotice24 October 2026Not measured yet
Very little text compared with codeNotice19 October 20261/4

Titles, headings and schema (31)

CheckSeverityAddedSeen
Missing titleErrorBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Missing meta descriptionWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Organization lists no profile outside your own siteWarningBefore 19 Oct 20263/4
FAQ markup lists questions the page does not showWarning24 October 20262/4
Form field without a nameWarning24 October 2026Not measured yet
Missing H1WarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Structured data does not parseWarning19 October 2026Not measured yet
No structured data (schema)WarningBefore 19 Oct 202653% · 77%
Organization schema has broken linksWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Home page has no Organization schemaWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Product page without Product schemaWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Structured data Google detects but rejectsWarning21 October 2026Not measured yet
Title or description is cut offWarning24 October 20263/4
Duplicate titlesWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Article has no named authorNotice24 October 20264/4
Duplicate meta descriptionsNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Meta description too short or too longNotice19 October 20261/4
FAQ markup on most pagesNoticeBefore 19 Oct 20263/4
More than one H1NoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Headings skip a levelNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Images without alt textNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Declared language differs from the textNotice24 October 2026Not measured yet
No language declaredNotice19 October 2026Not measured yet
No single <main> landmarkNotice24 October 20261/4
No social image (og:image)Notice19 October 2026Not measured yet
No Open Graph tagsNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Article without Article schemaNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Article schema without author or dateNotice24 October 20261/4
Questions and answers without FAQ schemaNoticeBefore 19 Oct 20260/4 · 1 false alarm
Title starts with the brand, so the topic is cut firstNotice24 October 20261/4
Title too short or too longNoticeBefore 19 Oct 20261/4

Links, canonical and speed (46)

CheckSeverityAddedSeen
Broken internal linksErrorBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Canonical points to a broken or redirecting URLError19 October 2026Not measured yet
Redirect loopError19 October 2026Not measured yet
Canonical points to a noindex pageWarning23 October 20261/4
Canonical points to another pageWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Pages refuse or do not answer our crawlerWarningBefore 19 Oct 20261/4
Very large HTMLWarningBefore 19 Oct 20261/4
hreflang alternate does not link backWarning23 October 20261/4
HTTP version does not redirect to HTTPSWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Oversized imagesWarning19 October 2026Not measured yet
Internal links use #/ routesWarning24 October 20261/4
Internal links carry tracking or language parametersWarning24 October 20264/4
Links send readers to a page in another languageWarning24 October 20262/4 · 1 false alarm
Mixed content (HTTP resources on an HTTPS page)Warning19 October 2026Not measured yet
Sitemap lists a page that is not indexableWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Orphan pagesWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Links to pages that no longer existWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Sitemap has invalid entriesWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
No sitemap.xmlWarningBefore 19 Oct 202626% · 69%
robots.txt does not name your sitemapWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Slow pageWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
www and non-www both serve the siteWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Link to a page that no longer existsNotice24 October 2026Not measured yet
No canonical URLNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Content-Security-Policy allows inline scriptsNoticeBefore 19 Oct 20261/4
Page has no internal links (dead end)Notice19 October 2026Not measured yet
Page is more than 3 clicks from the home pageNotice19 October 20263/4
No faviconNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Invalid hreflangNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
hreflang has no x-defaultNotice24 October 20261/4
No HSTS headerNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Internal links point to redirectsNotice19 October 20261/4
The home address changes language with the visitor's browserNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Meta refresh redirectNotice19 October 2026Not measured yet
Pages cannot be revalidatedNoticeBefore 19 Oct 20262/4
Indexable page missing from the sitemapNotice19 October 2026Not measured yet
Links to addresses that have movedNotice24 October 20262/4
Public page cannot be cachedNotice24 October 20262/4
Render-blocking scripts and stylesNotice19 October 20262/4
Security headers missingNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Server version is publicNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Sitemap has no useful last-modified datesNoticeBefore 19 Oct 20262/4
Sitemap dates are older than the pages' ownNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Sitemap and site disagreeNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
URL is hard to read or shareNotice19 October 2026Not measured yet
Address variants of real pages return 404NoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet

Answerability (7)

CheckSeverityAddedSeen
Buyer questions the site does not answerWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
No pricing page foundWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Page does not answer the question firstWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
Page is hard to quoteWarningBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
No about page foundNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
No comparison or alternatives pageNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet
No FAQNoticeBefore 19 Oct 2026Not measured yet

How an audit works: method