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Article · Websites · 7 min read · Updated 2026-09-18

How to Run a Competitor Website Audit (Free Side-by-Side Scores)

A competitor website audit is a repeated scorecard — not a one-time screenshot. Compare, save, schedule, then fix what the diagnosis ranks first.

Pick one to three real rivals

Same buyer, same job, overlapping search queries. Skip CDNs, hosts, and unrelated footer links — they waste the audit.

Write the three URLs down. You will reuse them every cycle so the chart means something.

Run a side-by-side score

On AuditHQ, open the free competitor website audit at /compare. Paste your site and one competitor. Read overall, performance, SEO, accessibility, and AI-ready when present.

The free run shows scores. Create a free account to save the project and schedule the same pair again after you ship fixes.

Turn gaps into a Fix-first list

On Pro, ranked recommendations name what to change first — titles, speed, crawl issues, AI-ready gaps — so the team does not argue from screenshots alone.

Ship the top item, re-run on schedule, and watch whether the gap to the rival closes.

Keep it boring and weekly

Competitor website audits fail when they are heroic one-offs. A weekly or monthly schedule on audithq.app beats a quarterly slide deck nobody updates.

Run this on your site

AuditHQ schedules website measurements, a deep security scan and Production readiness checklist on your own URL, waterfalls, screenshots, competitor scores, and ranked fixes.

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