# GEO Auditor — AI Search Readiness & Citability Audit (`foxlabs/geo-auditor`) Actor
Audit how ready your site is to be found, read & cited by AI search (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude). Checks AI-crawler access, structured data, content extractability, speed & trust — scored 0-100 with a prioritized fix list. GEO / AEO technical audit.
- **URL**: https://apify.com/foxlabs/geo-auditor.md
- **Developed by:** [Berkan Kaplan](https://apify.com/foxlabs) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
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## Pricing
Pay per event
This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event
## What's an Apify Actor?
Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
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.
In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):
```bash
npm install apify-client
```
In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):
```bash
pip install apify-client
```
In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):
````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash
In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).
If your project is in a different language, use 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
## GEO Auditor — AI Search Readiness & Citability Audit
**Is your website ready to be found, read and *cited* by AI search — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude?**
AI answer engines don't rank ten blue links — they read a handful of pages, pull the most extractable facts, and cite a few sources. If an AI crawler can't reach your pages, can't parse your content, or can't trust your structure, you simply won't appear in the answer. This is the technical layer of **GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)** — and most sites are quietly failing it.
This Actor crawls your site **exactly the way an AI crawler sees it** (raw HTML, no JavaScript rendering), scores its AI-readiness **0–100**, and hands you a **prioritized, evidence-backed fix list**.
---
### Why this audit is different
Most "GEO audits" are shallow checklists. This one actually crawls your pages and scores the signals that decide AI citation — and it's **100% deterministic** (no LLM guesswork, no per-run AI cost, no proxy):
| | Typical checklist tools | **GEO Auditor** |
|---|---|---|
| Crawl | Single page / surface checks | Multi-page crawl, raw-HTML (as AI bots see it) |
| AI-crawler access | Rarely checked | robots.txt audited for **8 AI search crawlers** (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot…) |
| Scoring | Pass/fail ticks | Weighted **0–100** across 5 dimensions, per page + site |
| Output | A list | **Impact-ranked fixes** ("you're blocking PerplexityBot → unblock it") |
> Pairs with **[AI Brand Monitor](https://apify.com/foxlabs/ai-brand-monitor)**: that tells you *whether* AI mentions your brand; this tells you *why* — and exactly what to fix.
---
### What it checks (5 weighted dimensions)
1. **AI-crawler access — 25%** — does `robots.txt` let the crawlers that power AI answers in? Blocking `OAI-SearchBot`, `PerplexityBot`, `ChatGPT-User`, `Claude-SearchBot`, `Googlebot` or `Bingbot` makes you invisible in those answers. (Training crawlers like `GPTBot`/`CCBot` are reported separately — blocking those is a valid privacy choice, not penalized.)
2. **Structured data — 20%** — JSON-LD presence & useful schema types (Organization, Article, Product, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList…). AI engines lean on this to understand and cite you.
3. **Content extractability — 30%** *(highest weight)* — heading structure, content depth, text-to-HTML ratio, lists/tables, and a **JavaScript-render check** (if your content only appears after JS, AI crawlers see an empty page).
4. **Speed — 15%** — fast, light pages are far more likely to be cited.
5. **Trust & freshness — 10%** — published/modified dates, author/Organization schema, canonical tags.
---
### Output
**Per page:** GEO score + band, word count, JSON-LD schema types, heading outline, JS-render risk, canonical & date signals, and the page's top issues.
**Site scorecard (summary):** overall **GEO Readiness Index (0–100)**, AI-crawler access summary, the list of any **blocked AI-search bots**, per-dimension scores, and a **prioritized fix list** ordered by impact.
---
### Quick start
1. Enter your **website URL**.
2. Set **max pages** to audit (1 = just that page).
3. Run it.
No API keys, no proxy, no setup.
```json
{
"websiteUrl": "https://www.yoursite.com",
"maxPages": 10
}
````
### Use it as an MCP tool (inside any AI agent)
**Hosted:** `https://mcp.apify.com?tools=foxlabs/geo-auditor`
**Self-hosted (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cline):**
```bash
npx @apify/actors-mcp-server --tools foxlabs/geo-auditor
```
***
### Who it's for
- **SEO / GEO agencies** — ship clients a technical AI-readiness audit + fix roadmap (recurring).
- **In-house SEO / web teams** — find why you're not showing up in AI answers, then fix it.
- **Founders** — a 2-minute check on whether AI search can even see your site.
> **Note on scope:** this is a technical/structural audit (crawlability, structure, schema, speed). It does not render JavaScript — by design, because most AI crawlers don't either, so a JS-only page genuinely is invisible to them.
*Built by foXLabs.*
# Actor input Schema
## `websiteUrl` (type: `string`):
The website to audit for AI-search readiness (e.g. "https://www.notion.so"). We crawl this page and, up to your page limit, internal pages linked from it — exactly as an AI crawler would see them (raw HTML, no JavaScript rendering).
## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):
How many internal pages to crawl & score (starting from the URL above). 1 = audit just that page. More pages = a fuller site picture, slightly higher cost.
## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):
Leave OFF for fast, free audits — most sites work directly (we already auto-retry the www↔non-www variant). Turn on Apify Proxy with the RESIDENTIAL group ONLY if a site is behind Cloudflare/WAF bot-protection that blocks direct requests (slower, uses proxy traffic).
## Actor input object example
```json
{
"websiteUrl": "https://www.notion.so",
"maxPages": 10,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": false
}
}
```
# Actor output Schema
## `dataset` (type: `string`):
No description
## `summary` (type: `string`):
No description
# 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 '' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
token: '',
});
// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
"websiteUrl": "https://www.notion.so",
"maxPages": 10,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": false
}
};
// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("foxlabs/geo-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 '' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("")
# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
"websiteUrl": "https://www.notion.so",
"maxPages": 10,
"proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}
# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("foxlabs/geo-auditor").call(run_input=run_input)
# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
print(item)
# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start
```
## CLI example
```bash
echo '{
"websiteUrl": "https://www.notion.so",
"maxPages": 10,
"proxyConfiguration": {
"useApifyProxy": false
}
}' |
apify call foxlabs/geo-auditor --silent --output-dataset
```
## MCP server setup
```json
{
"mcpServers": {
"apify": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"mcp-remote",
"https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=foxlabs/geo-auditor",
"--header",
"Authorization: Bearer "
]
}
}
}
```
## OpenAPI specification
```json
{
"openapi": "3.0.1",
"info": {
"title": "GEO Auditor — AI Search Readiness & Citability Audit",
"description": "Audit how ready your site is to be found, read & cited by AI search (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude). Checks AI-crawler access, structured data, content extractability, speed & trust — scored 0-100 with a prioritized fix list. GEO / AEO technical audit.",
"version": "0.1",
"x-build-id": "Yh9J5nDwarkQV71gC"
},
"servers": [
{
"url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
}
],
"paths": {
"/acts/foxlabs~geo-auditor/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-foxlabs-geo-auditor",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
},
"/acts/foxlabs~geo-auditor/runs": {
"post": {
"operationId": "runs-sync-foxlabs-geo-auditor",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK",
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
}
}
}
}
}
}
},
"/acts/foxlabs~geo-auditor/run-sync": {
"post": {
"operationId": "run-sync-foxlabs-geo-auditor",
"x-openai-isConsequential": false,
"summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
"tags": [
"Run Actor"
],
"requestBody": {
"required": true,
"content": {
"application/json": {
"schema": {
"$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
}
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "token",
"in": "query",
"required": true,
"schema": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Enter your Apify token here"
}
],
"responses": {
"200": {
"description": "OK"
}
}
}
}
},
"components": {
"schemas": {
"inputSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"websiteUrl": {
"title": "Website URL",
"type": "string",
"description": "The website to audit for AI-search readiness (e.g. \"https://www.notion.so\"). We crawl this page and, up to your page limit, internal pages linked from it — exactly as an AI crawler would see them (raw HTML, no JavaScript rendering)."
},
"maxPages": {
"title": "Max pages to audit",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 50,
"type": "integer",
"description": "How many internal pages to crawl & score (starting from the URL above). 1 = audit just that page. More pages = a fuller site picture, slightly higher cost."
},
"proxyConfiguration": {
"title": "Proxy (optional)",
"type": "object",
"description": "Leave OFF for fast, free audits — most sites work directly (we already auto-retry the www↔non-www variant). Turn on Apify Proxy with the RESIDENTIAL group ONLY if a site is behind Cloudflare/WAF bot-protection that blocks direct requests (slower, uses proxy traffic).",
"default": {
"useApifyProxy": false
}
}
}
},
"runsResponseSchema": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"data": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string"
},
"actId": {
"type": "string"
},
"userId": {
"type": "string"
},
"startedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"finishedAt": {
"type": "string",
"format": "date-time",
"example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
},
"status": {
"type": "string",
"example": "READY"
},
"meta": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"origin": {
"type": "string",
"example": "API"
},
"userAgent": {
"type": "string"
}
}
},
"stats": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"inputBodyLen": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2000
},
"rebootCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"restartCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"resurrectCount": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"computeUnits": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"options": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"build": {
"type": "string",
"example": "latest"
},
"timeoutSecs": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 300
},
"memoryMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1024
},
"diskMbytes": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 2048
}
}
},
"buildId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultDatasetId": {
"type": "string"
},
"defaultRequestQueueId": {
"type": "string"
},
"buildNumber": {
"type": "string",
"example": "1.0.0"
},
"containerUrl": {
"type": "string"
},
"usage": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 1
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
},
"usageTotalUsd": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"usageUsd": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATASET_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
"type": "number",
"example": 0.00005
},
"KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
},
"PROXY_SERPS": {
"type": "integer",
"example": 0
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
```