Running your first audit

A step-by-step walkthrough for running a URL audit on the BeSeenByAI platform or free tool.

From the platform

  1. Sign in to your account at app.beseenby.ai. If you do not have an account yet, you can request beta access.
  2. Open a project or create a new one. Projects group the URLs you want to audit, track, and monitor together. Give the project a name that matches the site you are working on.
  3. Enter a URL in the audit input field. Use the full URL including https:// — for example, https://example.com/your-page.
  4. Click Run Audit. The audit runs in the background. A progress indicator appears while it runs. Most audits complete in 15–30 seconds.
  5. Open the report when it appears in your reports list. Reports are saved to the project and can be compared over time.

From the free tool

The free tool at beseenby.ai runs a full audit on any public URL without requiring an account. Enter the URL and click the audit button. Free tool audits are not saved — they give you a one-time snapshot. To track changes over time, use the platform.

What happens during an audit

BeSeenByAI fetches the page using the same user agents that real AI crawlers send — including GPTBot (used by ChatGPT), ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended. It checks whether those bots can actually reach the page, what content is in the raw HTML they receive, and how the server performs.

For performance, it uses real-world field data from the Chrome UX Report (CrUX) if your page has enough traffic for that data to exist. For pages with no field data — new pages, low-traffic URLs, or URLs that are intentionally not indexed — it falls back to lab-based measurements.

Reading your results

After the audit completes, you will see:

  • An AI Visibility Score (0–100) and a status label: Excellent, Warning, or Critical
  • A priority issues list if any significant problems were found
  • Tabs for each report dimension: Crawlability, Content Visibility, Authority, Performance, and (if enabled) Reverse Prompting, Prompt Fit, and Lab

Start with the Overview tab. If the status is Critical, the priority issues list will point you to the most urgent blocker. Fix that before looking at anything else.

For a full explanation of the score and what it means, see Understanding your AI Visibility Score.

Tips for your first audit

  • Audit the page you want to rank, not the homepage. Unless the homepage is your target, audit the specific page that should appear in AI answers for a given topic.
  • Check your robots.txt first if you suspect access issues. Blocked bots are the most common reason a page scores low on crawlability.
  • Wait 30 seconds after page changes before re-auditing. Cache layers on the server may still serve the old response immediately after a deploy.