ShipReady
LiveFree SEO and AEO scanner for AI-generated websites
Built by Caden Sorenson · Launched April 2026
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
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