A forensic analysis of every technical layer affecting how search engines and AI models crawl, understand, and trust your site — followed by a prioritised fix roadmap.
The best content in the world won't rank — and won't get cited by AI — if technical issues prevent search engines and AI crawlers from accessing, understanding, or trusting it. Our Technical AI Readiness Audit is a comprehensive forensic analysis of every layer that matters, followed by a prioritised roadmap your dev team can action immediately.
This is the first step of every SIGNAL engagement. We don't build on shaky foundations. Before any content or GEO work begins, we need to know exactly what technical issues might undermine it — and fix them first.
Deep crawl analysis covering indexability, crawl depth, internal linking flow, redirect chains, duplicate content, canonicalisation issues, and crawl budget inefficiencies — everything affecting how efficiently search engines can process your site.
We test whether Googlebot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, and other AI crawlers can access and index your key content — and identify any robots.txt rules, headers, or server configurations blocking AI training and retrieval access.
LCP, CLS, FID/INP analysis across your top templates with developer-ready fix specifications. Google's page experience signals remain a significant ranking factor and affect how content is weighted in AI Overview selection.
Validation of all existing schema markup, identification of missing schema opportunities across your content types, and a complete implementation spec for the high-impact structured data types your site should be using.
Analysis of how your JavaScript-rendered content is processed by search engine crawlers — critical for SPAs, React/Vue/Angular sites, and any pages where key content is loaded dynamically after initial page render.
Every finding categorised by impact and implementation effort, with ready-to-use tickets for your dev team. We tell you exactly what to fix, in what order, and why — so you can start immediately rather than spending weeks interpreting findings.
We deploy our crawler stack across your full site, collect server logs if available, pull Search Console and GA4 data, and run Lighthouse audits across representative page templates.
Every data point is analysed and cross-referenced. Issues are identified, impact-assessed, and triaged against your specific goals and current performance baseline.
We transform findings into a structured remediation roadmap: prioritised by impact, estimated by effort, and formatted as developer-ready tickets your engineering team can pick up directly.
Full audit document delivered, followed by a live briefing session with your team — walking through findings, explaining priority decisions, and answering implementation questions.
Our audit covers more than 200 discrete technical checks across crawlability, indexation, page experience, structured data, JavaScript rendering, and AI accessibility.
Four weeks from access to delivery — including full crawl analysis, structured data audit, Core Web Vitals assessment, AI crawlability testing, and the complete remediation roadmap.
Every finding is delivered as a developer-ready ticket — not a list of problems to decode, but a set of specifications your engineering team can implement immediately.
"signAI's technical audit found 14 issues our previous agency had missed for over two years. Fixing them drove a 40% improvement in crawl coverage and our rankings recovered within 3 months."CTO, Series B SaaS Platform
If content investment hasn't moved the needle, the problem is almost always technical — either crawlability issues preventing indexation or authority signals being diluted across duplicate or thin pages.
Site migrations are the leading cause of sudden ranking losses. Our post-migration audit identifies every redirect gap, canonical issue, and crawl problem introduced during the move — and provides the fix roadmap to recover.
If a Google algorithm update hit your site hard, a technical audit is the diagnostic tool that identifies what changed, what violations were triggered, and what remediation is needed to recover.
New sites and redesigns: get the technical foundation right before you launch rather than diagnosing problems after the fact, when they've already cost you months of organic momentum.
Large sites that have accumulated years of technical debt — accumulated redirects, CMS migrations, structural inconsistencies, and schema proliferation — need a systematic audit to untangle what's holding them back.
The Technical Audit is the mandatory first phase of every SIGNAL engagement. Before we invest in content or GEO, we need to know the foundation is solid enough to support it.