How it works
From a URL to a ranked list of changes.
Six steps take a website from a URL to a ranked list of changes: crawl, deterministic scoring, AI Visibility and AEO on paid audits, prioritised recommendations, and a private report. The sequence is identical every time; only the paid steps differ.
- 01
Enter a website
A URL is all that is needed. No account, and the Free Scan needs no card.
- 02
ScanDepth reads the site
The crawler fetches up to 5 pages on a Free Scan and up to 50 on a paid audit, respecting robots and rate limits.
- 03
Deterministic signals are scored
The same rule set runs every time. No language model contributes to a category score.
- 04
Paid audits measure AI Visibility and AEO
A fixed set of prompts goes to each configured engine, and the Answer Engine Optimization lens reads whether a clear, direct, well-supported answer can be extracted from each page. Neither runs on a Free Scan.
- 05
Recommendations are prioritised
Findings are ranked by impact, each stating what is wrong, why it matters and the change to make.
- 06
Receive a private report
A private URL and a PDF. Nothing renews, and there is no dashboard to return to.
Determinism
The same site scores the same twice.
Category scores come from a fixed rule set. No language model contributes to one.
Fixed weights, published
Seven categories carry fixed shares of the overall score: technical 25%, on-page 20%, GEO 20%, trust 15%, structured data 10%, internal linking 5% and performance 5%. They do not move between audits.
What the crawler will not do
It respects robots directives and rate limits, and it stops at the page ceiling for the tier — 5 on a Free Scan, 50 on a paid audit. Pages it could not fetch are reported as unmeasured. They are never scored as zero, because a page that was not read is not a page that failed.
Competitors join the same pass — if you want them.
Free Scan is $0 and the Full Audit is $75. Adding up to 3 competitors, measured on the same rules, is optional and costs nothing extra.