AvocadoScore vs Ahrefs Site Audit
Ahrefs scores you for Google. We score you for Google and AI.
Ahrefs Site Audit is the SEO industry standard — deep crawling, backlinks, keyword data. It's also a $129+/month subscription with a steep learning curve. AvocadoScore is a focused, free audit that covers the SEO basics that move scores plus the AI-readiness layer Ahrefs doesn't touch yet.
Free, every fix unlocked · No signup · Ready in about 60 seconds
Feature-by-feature
| Capability | Ahrefs Site Audit | AvocadoScore |
|---|---|---|
| Site-wide SEO scan | ✓ | ✓ |
| Core Web Vitals (real + lab) | ✓ | |
| AI Readiness — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, llms.txt | ✓ | |
| Per-page deep dive with LCP element + weight | ✓ | |
| Plain-English fix list w/ effort estimates | ✓ | |
| Backlinks + keyword data | ✓ | |
| Competitor analysis | ✓ | |
| Free (no subscription) | ✓ | |
| Shareable, printable report URL | ✓ | |
| Export to Jira / Linear | ✓ |
If you live in SEO every day, you probably need Ahrefs too — it's better at backlinks and keyword research. But for the audit-and-fix workflow, especially with the AI angle, AvocadoScore is free instead of $129/month forever.
What Ahrefs Site Audit can't tell you
The three findings every AvocadoScore report surfaces that other tools physically can't — because they audit one side of the visibility equation.
Whether GPTBot can read your site
We fetch your homepage twice — once as a browser, once as GPTBot — and compare. Big content drops mean LLMs see a stripped page; CDN bot-detection is the usual culprit.
Whether your llms.txt is actually useful
Presence isn't quality. We validate that your llms.txt has a heading, link count, and sections — the things that make it a real content map for answer engines, not a tickbox file.
Which one fix is the quick win
We rank recommendations by severity × effort and call out true quick wins. You leave with three things to ship Monday, not 47 findings to sort.
Questions, answered
Is AvocadoScore a replacement for Ahrefs Site Audit?+
It replaces the audit workflow, not the underlying data. Ahrefs Site Audit does its job well; AvocadoScore scans your whole site in one pass, adds an SEO and AI-readiness scorecard, and hands your engineer a ranked, copy-paste fix list — the parts Ahrefs Site Audit leaves out.
Does Ahrefs Site Audit check AI readiness?+
No. Ahrefs Site Audit predates the answer-engine era. AvocadoScore checks whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot can crawl, parse and cite your site — llms.txt, AI bot policies, structured data and server-rendered content — so you show up when people ask ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity instead of Googling.
How much does AvocadoScore cost?+
Nothing — the full audit is free, no signup, every fix unlocked. Re-run it any time to check after shipping fixes. An optional $9/mo Monitor adds automatic monthly re-scans and regression alerts if you want that too.
Do I need to install anything?+
No. Paste a URL and you get a shareable report in about 60 seconds — no browser extension, no CLI, no CI setup. The report is one link you can forward to engineering or a client.
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