Paste a URL. You get a score, a summary and the top 3 findings with the evidence each one was raised from — in your browser, on a link that is yours for 14 days. No email address, no account, no card. 3 audits every 24 hours.
Most free audit tools are lead forms wearing a product’s clothes: you paste a URL, and the result goes to an inbox in exchange for a business email address. That is a fair trade if you want it. It is also why so many of them are never used twice.
This one hands you the result in the browser. The status link is an unguessable token, it works for 14 days, and nothing is sent anywhere because nothing was asked for. The rate limit is counted against a one-way hash of your IP address — an address is personal data and equality is all the counter needs — and those rows are dropped after 48 hours.
Counted against a one-way hash of your IP address, never the address itself, and dropped after 48 hours.
The full findings list, the prioritised plan and the shareable report need an account.
An unguessable status URL, handed to you in the browser. Nothing is emailed because nothing is asked for.
There is no form field for it and no step that reveals one later.
Counted per calendar month, UTC.
Every finding with its evidence, the prioritised plan with acceptance criteria, and the score breakdown.
An unguessable token you control, and an image built for posting.
No card. Sign-in is a code sent to your address.
The engine is the same in both. An account does not buy a better audit; it buys the whole of the one you already ran, and somewhere to keep it.
The page is opened in a real browser, and the same session measures three things you can check line by line — every point taken off names the rule and the threshold behind it.
Mobile
The page is re-laid out at 375px wide. Points come off for a missing viewport tag, sideways scrolling, tap targets under 24×24px (the WCAG 2.2 SC 2.5.8 size; its spacing and inline-link exceptions are not applied, so a flag means "review", not "fails WCAG") and body text under 16px.
Accessibility
axe-core 4.10.2, pinned so a library upgrade cannot move a score without a commit. Points come off per violated rule, weighted by impact, with the element count kept as evidence.
Performance
Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift and time to first byte, read during the page load against the published “good” boundaries (2500ms, 0.1, 800ms).
If the browser pass does not run or fails on an audit, all three read “not measured” — never a zero, because a zero would say the page failed a test it was never given.
The first three are offered as standard by free audit tools you will find next to this page in the results. None of them can be produced from one browser run of one page, so none of them is produced here. The fourth is the shortcut a failed test invites.
Your estimated monthly revenue lost to UX issues
That number needs your traffic, your conversion rate, your margin and a causal link between a finding and a lost sale. An audit of a captured page has none of the four. A figure produced without them is invented, however confidently it is formatted.
An accessibility compliance verdict
Accessibility is measured with a pinned automated rule set, and an automated rule set catches only part of what WCAG asks for. Keyboard paths, screen-reader behaviour and whether the content makes sense need a person, so no score here is a compliance position.
What your real visitors experience
Load timings are a lab measurement from one browser run in one location. They show what the page did on that run, not what your visitors see, and Interaction to Next Paint is not measured at all because it needs a real person.
A zero for a test that did not run
If the browser pass fails on an audit, mobile, accessibility and performance read “not measured”. A zero would tell every reader the page failed something it was never given.
The scoring that is done instead is published in full — the severity weights, the ceilings that cap what any score may claim, and the arithmetic behind one worked example — on the example report.
A free audit reads one page as it was served. If the question is about a whole funnel, about what real users do, or about a redesign a room of people is arguing over, the answer is a person and a budget — see what UX audits cost for who charges what and why. If you want this method applied properly to one site with a written verdict, the Pro UX Audit is €249, delivered in 3 business days.