# 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
- **Stats:** 4 total users, 4 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 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.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
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.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — 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

## 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
}
```

# 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("💾 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 '{
  "startUrl": "https://apify.com"
}' |
apify call lizaraco/site-audit --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=lizaraco/site-audit",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/bhoMZ6PNI5Nk6468q/builds/O3grQKafXXGeEvdoD/openapi.json