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How to run your first audit

Paste a URL, wait 20 seconds, download a markdown file with every fix. Here's what happens at each step.

Last updated April 9, 2026

VistaCite runs a 30-check audit on a single URL and returns a downloadable .fix_it_plan.md file with copy-paste fixes for every failure. No signup is required to audit your first page — you can use the waitlist flow from the landing page to get the share link emailed to you, or sign up for a free account to access your full audit history.

The fastest path

  1. Go to vistacite.com and paste any URL into the hero form — your own site, a competitor's, anything with a public HTML page.
  2. Click Run audit. If you're signed in, the audit starts immediately and you're redirected to the results page. If you're signed out, the form expands to ask for an email — we run the audit anonymously and email you the share link when it's done.
  3. Wait ~20 seconds on free, or ~60 seconds on Pro. You'll see a live scanner animation walk through each phase: crawling the page, running SEO checks, running AEO checks, running GEO checks, generating copy-paste fixes, consulting the Crystal Ball, and — on Pro — checking Google AI Overview presence for your top keywords before building the final report. The Pro AI Overview phase is the slowest step because it makes live SERP calls to Google for each target keyword.
  4. Read your results. Three scores at the top (SEO, AEO, GEO), issues grouped by priority (This Week, This Month, This Quarter), and a downloadable markdown file.

What the audit actually does

Every audit pulls the single HTML page you submit (one URL, not the whole site) and runs 30 deterministic checks on it. No JavaScript is executed — we crawl raw HTML the same way Googlebot and most AI search crawlers do. The checks are grouped into three pillars:

  • Classic SEO — title, meta description, H1, heading hierarchy, canonical, robots directives, Open Graph, image alt text, image dimensions, internal linking.
  • AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) — whether ChatGPT / Perplexity / Gemini can find and parse the page: AI crawler access in robots.txt, Organization + Article + FAQ JSON-LD schema, question-framed headings, direct-answer paragraphs, visible author + updated date.
  • GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) — whether generative models will quote the page: quotable sentence density, statistic density, fact density, citation patterns, structured lists, paragraph chunkability, entity cross-links.

Each pillar gets a 0–100 score, and every failed check gets a severity label (critical / major / minor) plus — for the checks we have a prompt template for — a copy-paste fix generated by Claude. These aren't vague suggestions like "add a better title." They're the actual replacement content you can paste into your CMS right now.

What you get back

The results page shows scores, issue cards, and the Crystal Ball section (what an LLM actually knows about your domain, verbatim). Click Download .fix_it_plan.md to pull the markdown artifact. Open it in Cursor, Obsidian, Notion, or any markdown viewer and work through it top to bottom — issues are sorted by impact so the most valuable fixes come first.

If you want a shareable link for your audit, toggle Make public on the results page. A /s/[id] URL is generated with a custom OG image — drop it into a tweet or a Slack message and anyone can see the audit without signing in.

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