# Site Audit — Broken Links, Redirects & Core Web Vitals (`lizaraco/site-audit`) Actor

Point it at your site: discovers pages from the sitemap, finds broken links and redirect chains, and scores pages with Google PageSpeed / Core Web Vitals. Full-site health in one run — no URL lists to maintain, nothing to install.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lizaraco/site-audit.md
- **Developed by:** [Shawn Downs](https://apify.com/lizaraco) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, Automation, Developer tools
- **Features:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 8 total users, 1 monthly users, 86.2% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $1.40 / 1,000 page checkeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
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?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## 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.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Site Audit — Broken Links, Redirects & Core Web Vitals

Point it at your site. It **discovers your pages automatically** (sitemap.xml, robots.txt,
or a light crawl), checks every page's status and redirect chain, verifies the links on
those pages to find **404s and dead references**, and scores your top pages with
**Google PageSpeed / Core Web Vitals**. Full-site health in one run — no URL lists to
maintain, nothing to install, schedule it weekly and diff the summaries.

### What it reports

- **`page` rows** — status, ok flag, final URL, redirect chain (flags chains ≥2 hops),
  load time, size, title, link counts.
- **`broken_link` rows** — every dead link with the page it lives on, its status, and
  whether it's internal or external. **No false positives:** external links that answer
  403/429 are bot-blocked-but-fine (they work in a browser) and are counted separately,
  not reported as broken.
- **`pagespeed` rows** — Lighthouse performance score, LCP, CLS, TBT, FCP, Speed Index
  (mobile or desktop).
- **`summary` row** — pages checked/ok/failed, unique broken links, redirect chains,
  average load time, slowest pages, average performance score.

### Honest by design

This actor audits **your own site**: honest user-agent, robots.txt respected, no scraping
of anyone else's content. PageSpeed comes from Google's free official API — keyless works
for small runs; drop in a free API key (`pagespeedApiKey`) for 25k audits/day. PageSpeed
hiccups never fail the run.

### The LizaraCo SEO suite

[Google Trends](https://apify.com/lizaraco/scrape-google-trends) (demand shape) →
[Keyword Volume & CPC](https://apify.com/lizaraco/keyword-metrics) (hard numbers) →
[SERP + AI Overview Monitor](https://apify.com/lizaraco/google-serp-ai-overview-monitor)
(who ranks & who the AI cites) →
[Backlinks & Domain Authority](https://apify.com/lizaraco/domain-authority-backlinks)
(why they rank) → **this actor** (fix your own site).

### Use with AI agents

MCP-friendly: a maintenance agent runs it on a schedule, opens tickets for new 404s, and
watches Core Web Vitals drift — clean typed JSON rows, one call.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrl` (type: `string`):

Your site's homepage (or any page). Pages are discovered from sitemap.xml / robots.txt; falls back to a light same-site crawl.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Cap on pages fetched and checked.

## `checkExternalLinks` (type: `boolean`):

Also verify outbound links to other sites (finds dead references).

## `runPagespeed` (type: `boolean`):

Score top pages with Google PageSpeed Insights (performance score, LCP, CLS, TBT, FCP).

## `pagespeedTop` (type: `integer`):

PageSpeed is slow (~20s/page) and rate-limited without a key; only the first N discovered pages are scored.

## `pagespeedStrategy` (type: `string`):

Device profile for Lighthouse scoring.

## `pagespeedApiKey` (type: `string`):

Optional free Google API key for higher PageSpeed quotas (25k/day). Keyless works for small runs. Stored encrypted.

## `respectRobots` (type: `boolean`):

Skip pages disallowed by the site's robots.txt.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrl": "https://apify.com",
  "maxPages": 25,
  "checkExternalLinks": true,
  "runPagespeed": true,
  "pagespeedTop": 3,
  "pagespeedStrategy": "mobile",
  "respectRobots": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

All result rows produced by this run.

# 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 = {
    "startUrl": "https://apify.com"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lizaraco/site-audit").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 = { "startUrl": "https://apify.com" }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lizaraco/site-audit").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 '{
  "startUrl": "https://apify.com"
}' |
apify call lizaraco/site-audit --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lizaraco/site-audit"
        }
    }
}
```

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/bhoMZ6PNI5Nk6468q/builds/q4ko1kdt5xmGFR3Cr/openapi.json