Is Auditvia really free?
Yes. No email, no account, no trial. It's how Alterra Studio shows founders what we look for. If you want help with the fixes you can book a call, and nothing changes if you don't.
Who makes Auditvia?
Alterra Studio, a design and development studio for startups. Auditvia is our audit tool; the same senior team that builds our clients' sites reviews any report you bring to a call.
Does an AI write my score?
No. A judgment model (TypeSafe's Jev) answers narrow questions about your page, such as whether a stranger could say what you sell, each with a probability. Ordinary code adds those answers up, so every point traces back to evidence you can read.
Does Auditvia make my site ADA compliant?
No tool can on its own. Automated checks catch part of what WCAG asks for; the rest needs a person testing with a keyboard and a screen reader. Auditvia shows you the automated part with fixes your developers can ship, and we can cover the rest on a call. We don't sell overlay widgets.
What is AI search visibility (GEO)?
Whether assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI answers can read your site and describe you correctly. Auditvia checks the parts you control: whether their crawlers are allowed, an llms.txt file, structured data that says who you are, and a plain sentence about what you do.
Is Auditvia just Google PageSpeed?
No. Your accessibility, SEO and speed scores come from Auditvia's own checks of your live homepage: what it makes a phone download and run, which other companies' scripts it loads, and what search engines and screen readers can read. Every check shows its rule and evidence in the report. Google's Lighthouse runs alongside as a cross-check, because it's the number your developer will quote, and it covers what only a rendered page shows, like colour contrast.
Why don't my scores match Google's?
They measure different things. Auditvia counts real files and checks rules your page passes or fails, so its scores only move when your site changes. Google's Lighthouse times a simulated phone loading your page, which moves a few points from run to run. Use both: ours says what to fix, Google's shows how it feels on a slow phone.
What does it miss?
Anything a homepage can't show: your design next to your stage, your deck, your product, your analytics and how your team ships. Those criteria are marked as not measurable instead of guessed.
What do you keep?
Your homepage address and its scores, for 24 hours, so a repeat scan is instant. Your IP address is only used to limit scans to five an hour. Nothing else is kept or sold, unless you ask for the teardown by email: then we also keep your first name and email to send it and a few follow-up notes from Ryan, and every email has an unsubscribe link. Google PageSpeed checks the page, a scoring model reads its text, and pages built with JavaScript are loaded in Cloudflare's browser service.
Does it work if my site is built with JavaScript?
Yes. Some homepages, often React apps and Web3 or game sites, send almost no text until JavaScript runs. When Auditvia finds fewer than a few lines of text in your HTML, it loads the page in a real browser on Cloudflare and runs the same checks on what that browser shows: accessibility, SEO, AI search and your copy. Speed still measures the HTML and files a phone downloads first. The report says when it did this. If the page still shows almost no text after loading, we tell you instead of guessing.