Five free checks that each answer one question
No sign-up, no upsell in the results, and each one says plainly what it cannot tell you — which is most of the reason they exist. Four of the five ask for nothing but an address. The fifth, Comparison, asks for your email because the results are kept against it.
All five are pieces of the paid audit, handed over. The three newest exist because the audit got something wrong first.
- EmailCan someone send email pretending to be you?Reads the four DNS records — SPF, DKIM, DMARC and CAA — that decide whether a stranger can put your domain on an invoice. Most small businesses fail this and have never been told.
- Reality checkIs there actually a website at that address?A parked domain, a bot challenge and an empty shell all answer 200 OK, and most audit tools will write a full report about every one of them. This asks the question first.
- SearchIs anything telling Google to stay away?One line in one file can switch a whole site off in search, and it survives rebuilds. If your traffic fell off a cliff and nobody can say why, run this before anything else.
- SecurityYour security headers, and whether you can change themEvery scanner grades you red for a missing header. This says which two actually matter — and tells you when the answer belongs to Wix or Squarespace rather than to you.
- ComparisonHow you score next to your competitorsYour site and up to four others, each given a real fifteen-category audit and a score out of 100, side by side. This one asks for your email address, because the results are kept against it for you to find again — the only tool here that does.
These read what a server sends. The paid audit opens the page in a real browser, waits for it to finish building itself, and checks what a visitor actually sees — a different document, and where most real findings live. See a real report or ask for one.
Why these are free
The engine once produced around 75 findings about a parked domain that was for sale, and 38 about a page it had never managed to load. Fixing that meant learning to ask “is there anything here to look at” before looking, and to say “we could not check” instead of “we found nothing”. Those two questions cost us nothing to answer for you, so here they are.
What these tools do not do
Nothing on this page probes, scans or tests your site. Each tool makes a handful of ordinary requests, the same kind a visitor or a search engine makes: one for Is there a website there?, two for Security headers, up to five for Robots and sitemap, and up to sixteen DNS lookups for the email check. We do not run active security testing against a domain without written permission from whoever owns it — including when you paste somebody else’s address into the box.
For those four, the address you type is not saved, not logged by us and not added to any list, and the request is made from this site rather than from your browser, so the site you are checking never sees you. Comparison is the exception and says so: it needs an email address, and the results are kept against it.