How does your website score on a phone?
A free website audit for speed, SEO and enquiries. Google reads every website through a phone and ranks it on what it finds. Enter your address and see what Google sees.
A free website audit for Australian businesses
The Karyu Labs website check is a free website audit that runs in about twenty seconds. It combines a website speed test, an SEO check and a mobile friendly test with something most free tools skip: whether a customer who lands on your site can actually get in touch. You get the results in plain English, with no sign up and no sales call unless you ask for one.
What the free website check tests
- Speed on a phone. Your site is loaded with Google’s own PageSpeed test, as a phone on a mobile connection, and scored on how quickly the page appears and becomes usable.
- SEO basics. Whether Google can read and index the page: page titles, meta descriptions, headings, link text and anything that stops the page being crawled.
- Mobile friendliness. Whether text is readable without zooming, buttons are big enough to tap and the page works for people using screen readers.
- Build quality. Secure https, errors in the page and outdated code such as old versions of WordPress or jQuery.
- Enquiries. Whether a visitor can call with one tap, send a form, make a booking or start a chat, and whether the page gives them a clear next step.
- Signs of upkeep. Broken links and an old copyright year, the small things that tell a customer nobody is looking after the site.
Add your details and the check also shows a picture of your site as Google sees it on a phone, the closest competitors to you on Google Maps, and an estimate of the enquiries slow loading may be costing you.
How to read your website score
Each of the four Google scores runs from zero to one hundred. Ninety or above is good. Fifty to eighty nine needs work. Below fifty means the site is losing visitors and ranking because of it. Speed is usually the lowest score on small business websites and the one visitors feel most, so start there. A strong SEO score with a weak speed score means Google can read the site but visitors are leaving before it loads.
Why a slow website costs you enquiries
Most people who search for a local business do it on a phone, often in a hurry. If your page is slow they go back to Google and tap the next result, which is usually a competitor. Google also judges your site on its phone version, so a site that looks fine on a desktop can still rank poorly. Speed is not the only thing that decides where you rank, but a slow site wastes the visitors your listing has already won.
Website speed test or SEO checker: what is the difference?
A website speed test measures how fast a page loads. An SEO checker looks at what Google can read: titles, descriptions, headings and links. Free tools usually do one or the other and report it in developer terms. This check does both, adds the enquiry and upkeep checks, and explains each result in words a business owner can act on.
Who the check is for
It works for any public website in Australia, whether it runs on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify or a custom build. We built it for small and medium businesses who rely on their website for work: trade and parts suppliers, cafes, restaurants and venues, finance and mortgage brokers, clinics, tradies and professional services.
What to fix first
For most small business websites the quickest wins are the same. Compress large images. Remove plugins and scripts the site no longer uses. Put a tap to call button where a phone visitor sees it straight away. Give every page its own title and description that names your service and your area. If the score is still low after that, or the site is hard to update, a website rebuild is often cheaper than paying to patch it year after year.
Website check questions
What does the website check measure?
It loads your website the way Google does, as a phone on a mobile connection, and scores how fast it loads, how well Google can read it, how easy it is to read and tap, and how soundly it is built. It also checks whether a customer can actually reach you, by call, form or booking, and whether the site looks looked after. Add your details and it shows you a picture of your site on a phone, how you compare with nearby competitors on Google, and an estimate of what slow loading may be costing you.
Why does it test the phone version?
Google reads every website through a phone and ranks it on what it finds there. Most of your visitors are on a phone as well. The desktop version no longer decides where you rank.
What is a good score?
Ninety or above is good. Fifty to eighty nine needs work. Below fifty means the site is losing visitors and ranking because of it.
Is the website check really free?
Yes. You can run it as often as you like without giving us any details. If you want a person to review the site and tell you what to fix first, you can ask for that after the test.
Is this the same as a free SEO audit?
It covers the SEO basics a full audit starts with: whether Google can crawl and read the page, its title, description, headings and links, and how it performs on a phone. A full SEO audit goes further into keywords, content and backlinks. If you want that, ask for a review after the test.
Does it work on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace and Shopify websites?
Yes. The check reads your public website the way Google does, so it works on any platform, including WordPress, Wix, Squarespace, Shopify and custom builds.
Will the check change anything on my website?
No. It only loads your public pages, the same way a visitor or Google would. It does not log in, install anything or change your site.
How is this different from Google PageSpeed Insights?
The speed, SEO, accessibility and build scores come from Google’s own PageSpeed test, so they match what Google sees. On top of that the check tests whether customers can reach you, looks for signs the site is not looked after, compares you with nearby competitors and explains every result in plain English.
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