Sitebulb Alternative: Free Online SEO and AI Audit

Where Sitebulb is the better choice

Genuinely — if any of these is what you need, pick Sitebulb:

• Whole-site crawling on desktop or in the cloud, with automation and scheduling, where Maveriko caps a site crawl at 25 pages and never runs on a schedule.
• Issue prioritisation with built-in education explaining why each problem matters, which is a genuinely strong learning experience for teams new to technical SEO.
• Audit comparison across crawls, so you can see whether a site improved between two points in time — Maveriko has no crawl history of that kind.
• Integrations with Search Console, GA4, Google Sheets and reporting tools, which pull real performance data Maveriko never sees.

Where Maveriko is the better choice

• Free with no account, no licence and no install — a scan costs nothing and starts immediately.
• AI readiness scoring across schema, direct-answer shape, formatting, semantic structure and AI-crawler access, alongside the traditional checks.
• Entity authority as a headline score, covering whether public records let an AI system resolve your brand as a known organisation.
• Generated fix files rather than findings alone, so structured-data, robots.txt and llms.txt problems come back ready to paste.

Side by side

What Maveriko does not measure

Every audit tool has a ceiling. Ours, stated plainly so you can judge whether it matters to you:

• No traffic, keyword-volume or backlink data — that needs a paid clickstream database, and guessing it would be worse than omitting it.
• No measurement of whether AI engines cite you today. Maveriko scores whether a page is built to be cited, which is a different (and controllable) thing.
• Site crawls stop at 25 pages, so a large site is sampled rather than covered. A single-page scan stays unlimited and free.
• No scheduled or recurring crawls — every scan and crawl is one you start yourself.

The full scoring methodology publishes every weight and threshold, including the signals whose supporting evidence is only experimental.

Frequently asked questions

How to decide between Sitebulb and Maveriko

Start by deciding which question you are actually trying to answer, because the two products are not competing on the same one. If you need to know whether search engines can crawl, render and rank your pages, weigh the classic SEO feature set. If you need to know whether an answer engine could retrieve and quote a page, weigh AI readiness and entity authority — and check whether the tool measures those at all or infers them.

Then test both on a page you know well. A tool that scores a page you understand as flawless, or as broken, is telling you about its calibration rather than your site. Look for whether the score moves when you fix something, whether the methodology is published so you can argue with a result, and whether the tool ever admits it could not measure something instead of quietly rounding it down.

Where Sitebulb is the better fit, the table above says so. We would rather lose a comparison than publish one that does not survive checking — engines cross-reference claims, and so do buyers.

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