# SEO, Performance & Release Gate Auditor (`craigtechservicesllc/seo-performance-release-gate-auditor`) Actor

Audit rendered public pages for indexability, on-page SEO, structured data, lab performance signals, security headers, deterministic scores, and release gates.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/craigtechservicesllc/seo-performance-release-gate-auditor.md
- **Developed by:** [Daniel Craig](https://apify.com/craigtechservicesllc) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Developer tools, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $32.00 / 1,000 rendered page auditeds

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

## SEO, Performance & Release Gate Auditor

Audit rendered public pages in bulk without supplying a paid API key. Each completed page produces deterministic technical evidence across indexability, metadata, content structure, links, images, JSON-LD, lab performance signals, and response security headers.

### What it returns

- Overall 0–100 score and A–F grade
- PASS, REVIEW, or BLOCK release gate
- Scores for eight technical categories
- Specific issues with severity, bounded evidence, and a fix recommendation
- Rendered title, description, canonical, robots, headings, links, image-alt coverage, JSON-LD types, social metadata, and DOM size
- Single-run browser timings: TTFB, DOMContentLoaded, load, observed LCP, observed layout shift, long tasks, resource count, and measured bytes
- HTTPS and common response-header signals
- Explicit failed and duplicate rows

### Honest evidence boundary

The performance values are single Apify-hosted lab observations. They are not Chrome UX Report field data and the overall score is not a Google Lighthouse score. The audit does not guarantee indexing, rankings, traffic, legal compliance, or security. Use it as a repeatable technical release gate and investigate important findings.

### Input

Provide exactly one source:

```json
{ "urls": ["https://www.example.com"], "viewport": "mobile" }
```

Or use inline JSON items or an Apify dataset with `urlField`. Identical normalized URLs are uncharged duplicates by default.

### Charging

The `page-audited` event is requested only after the browser audit completes and a full audited row is ready. Invalid URLs, blocked private targets, timeouts, unsafe redirects, spending-limit skips, and duplicates are not requested as chargeable events. The summary exposes intended chargeable rows and the platform-accounted event totals separately; owner test runs can legitimately show zero platform-accounted events because the owner is not billed for their own product.

### Network safety

Only public HTTP and HTTPS targets are allowed. Credentials in URLs, local/private/reserved addresses, unsafe DNS answers, and unsafe redirects are blocked. The page and statically declared resource hosts are resolved and pinned before Chrome starts; unapproved runtime hosts are blocked.

### Release-gate policy

- BLOCK: at least one critical issue or at least three error issues
- REVIEW: one or two errors, or any warning
- PASS: no critical, error, or warning findings

Informational recommendations do not lower the score or gate by themselves.

### Support

Email daniel.craig@craigtechservices.com with the public run URL and a redacted input example. Never send API tokens or credentials.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

One public page per row. Bare domains are interpreted as HTTPS.

## `items` (type: `array`):

Objects containing a URL field. Use urlField for nested values.

## `datasetId` (type: `string`):

Dataset in the current Apify account. Never place an API token here.

## `urlField` (type: `string`):

Dot path for JSON items or dataset rows.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Hard browser-audit limit; truncation is reported.

## `concurrency` (type: `integer`):

Parallel isolated pages. Lower values use less memory.

## `timeoutMs` (type: `integer`):

Milliseconds before a slow page becomes an explicit uncharged failure.

## `settleMs` (type: `integer`):

Bounded milliseconds for client-rendered content and lab observers.

## `maxResponseBytes` (type: `integer`):

Oversized HTML is rejected before a browser opens.

## `maxRedirects` (type: `integer`):

Every redirect is independently checked against the public-network policy.

## `viewport` (type: `string`):

Desktop is 1440x900; mobile is touch-enabled 390x844.

## `deduplicate` (type: `boolean`):

Duplicates are emitted as uncharged records.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.example.com",
    "https://www.apify.com"
  ],
  "urlField": "url",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "concurrency": 2,
  "timeoutMs": 45000,
  "settleMs": 1500,
  "maxResponseBytes": 2000000,
  "maxRedirects": 5,
  "viewport": "desktop",
  "deduplicate": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

One row per input with category scores, evidence, recommendations, and charging state.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Counts, truncation, effective settings, event count, and evidence boundary.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://www.example.com",
        "https://www.apify.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("craigtechservicesllc/seo-performance-release-gate-auditor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "urls": [
        "https://www.example.com",
        "https://www.apify.com",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("craigtechservicesllc/seo-performance-release-gate-auditor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    "https://www.example.com",
    "https://www.apify.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call craigtechservicesllc/seo-performance-release-gate-auditor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,craigtechservicesllc/seo-performance-release-gate-auditor"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/G2H43XPGiMqpJI3dt/builds/2Z4qdfcWAOYIaFcQ1/openapi.json