Show HN: Website Auditor –> Test your brand's AI visibility, get growth plan
A new tool called Website Auditor allows businesses to test their visibility within major AI platforms like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. The service is promoted against the backdrop of a Gartner prediction that half of customers will prefer AI over traditional search by 2028. Users can run a free and anonymous audit by providing their business name and city to receive a growth plan.
- ▪The Website Auditor tool scans how AI models describe a specific business.
- ▪Gartner predicts that 50% of customers will use AI instead of traditional search by 2028.
- ▪The audit is free, anonymous, and requires only the business name and city.
- ▪The platform claims to have audited 1,027 websites across 91 different industries.
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Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Website Auditor |
| Canonical URL | https://website-auditor.io/ |
| Publication time | Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:44:51 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-20T06:53:46.261Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-20T06:53:46.261Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | NeMYgEMHQT8H · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Does ChatGPT recommend your business? Gartner: 50% of customers will use AI over traditional search by 2028. Are you visible? Scan My Site Starting audit... Please wait. ↓ Complete the fields below to run your audit Not the right business or location? Business Name (required) * Business City (required) * Please enter a city to continue. We need it to check how AI tools find your business. Used to check how you appear in AI tools and local results. Run a free business AI visibility audit to see how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity describe your business. Trusted by businesses across industries 1,027websites audited 91industries covered 100%free & anonymous
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Website Auditor.
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