Methodology

How isitready.dev decides what to trust.

The scanner is weighted, but not opaque. Each check records direct evidence, categorizes the result, and only scores what can be supported from the public web or legitimate external APIs.

Reports score only what can be supported by public evidence or legitimate third-party APIs.

Coverage remains visible so teams can see whether a result is exhaustive or sampled.

Priority fixes are weighted to surface the highest-impact failures first.

Observed

Direct HTTP fetches, headers, bodies, parsed metadata, and validated well-known resources.

Heuristic

Checks that infer readiness from public markup or representative crawl samples without pretending certainty.

Unavailable

Signals requiring ownership, credentials, or unavailable public data remain explicit instead of being guessed.

What we evaluate

The five categories behind every report.

Each category captures a different part of public website readiness, but all of them follow the same evidence-first scoring model.

AI Readiness

AI Readiness

Content discoverability, markdown signals, agent protocols, and machine-readable readiness.

Checks probe robots.txt, llms.txt, markdown negotiation, API discovery, MCP or A2A signals, and related metadata.

Technical SEO

Technical SEO

Crawlability, canonical integrity, structured metadata, and indexability signals.

Checks use adaptive page sampling to inspect titles, descriptions, canonicals, headings, structured data, and social metadata.

Security

Security

HTTPS posture, response headers, cookies, and externally validated transport safeguards.

Checks combine direct header inspection with trusted public security tooling when this deployment has access to it.

Performance

Performance

Page speed, loading quality, and public lab or field performance evidence.

Checks use PageSpeed Insights and CrUX-style signals when available, without inventing private metrics.

Production Quality

Production Quality

Reliability, metadata consistency, broken signals, and operational polish on the public web.

Checks focus on production-facing best practices, broken public signals, consistency, and crawl-surface quality.