ShipReady, Vient

What is ShipReady?

ShipReady is a free SEO and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) scanner built for websites created with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and v0. It audits your deployed site across seven categories, scores each one with a letter grade, and generates a copy-paste prompt you can feed right back into your AI tool to fix every issue.

How It Works

Enter a URL - Paste any live website URL
ShipReady scans it - Fetches the page, follows redirects, grabs robots.txt, sitemap, and llms.txt in parallel
35+ checks run - Across Meta & Head, Discoverability, On-Page Structure, Social Sharing, Performance, Structured Data, and AEO
Get your grade - Overall score (A-F) with per-category breakdowns and pass/warn/fail for each check
Copy the fix prompt - A single markdown prompt with every issue, code snippets, and guidelines ready for your AI coding tool

Seven Audit Categories

Meta & Head (23%) - Title, description, charset, viewport, canonical, favicon
Discoverability (19%) - HTTPS, robots.txt, sitemap, noindex, client-side rendering detection
On-Page Structure (19%) - Heading hierarchy, image alt text, internal links, content depth
Social Sharing (14%) - Open Graph tags, Twitter Cards, image dimensions
Performance (9%) - Render-blocking scripts, text compression, modern image formats
Structured Data (8%) - JSON-LD validation, schema type detection and suggestions
Answer Engine Optimization (8%) - AI crawler access, llms.txt, question headings, speakable schema, FAQ/HowTo markup

Why AEO Matters

Traditional SEO tools don’t check if ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Claude can find your content. ShipReady scans your robots.txt for blocked AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and more), checks for llms.txt, looks for question-style headings that answer engines can extract, and verifies you have enough content depth to get cited as a source.

Tech Stack

Astro 5 with SSR for the scanning API endpoint
Cloudflare Workers for edge deployment with global low latency
Cloudflare KV for IP-based rate limiting (10 scans/hour)
Custom regex HTML parser optimized for Workers’ memory constraints
TypeScript end to end

Build log: how I built ShipReady. Related: best SEO checker tools for developers.

Frequently asked questions

Is ShipReady free to use?

Yes. ShipReady is completely free with no account required. Scans are rate-limited to 10 per hour per IP to keep the edge service affordable, which is plenty for auditing and re-checking a site as you fix issues.

What does ShipReady check that traditional SEO tools don't?

Its Answer Engine Optimization category. ShipReady checks whether AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot are allowed in your robots.txt, whether you have an llms.txt file, whether your headings are phrased as extractable questions, and whether you have speakable and FAQ/HowTo structured data. Lighthouse and most SEO tools don't look at any of that.

Which sites is ShipReady built for?

It's aimed at sites generated with AI coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and v0, which often ship with missing meta tags, no structured data, and client-side rendering that hurts discoverability. That said, it works on any live URL, AI-built or not.

How many checks does it run, and across what categories?

35+ checks across seven weighted categories: Meta & Head, Discoverability, On-Page Structure, Social Sharing, Performance, Structured Data, and Answer Engine Optimization. Each category gets its own grade so you can see where to focus.

Do I need to install anything?

No. ShipReady runs in the browser. You paste a live URL, it fetches the page along with robots.txt, sitemap, and llms.txt in parallel, runs the checks, and shows the results. Nothing to install or configure.

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