Accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AA criteria a machine can check: color contrast, ARIA roles, form labels, alt text, focus order, semantic landmarks. The same rules most US ADA digital-accessibility lawsuits cite.
Free website audit.
Run a live audit on any URL. We'll pull mobile accessibility, performance, best-practices, and SEO scores in seconds — powered by Google PageSpeed Insights, scored against WCAG 2.1 AA and Core Web Vitals. No email, no signup, no overlay widgets.
What we audit01
Four scores. Every check Google ranks on.
Performance
Core Web Vitals — Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, Cumulative Layout Shift — plus speed-index, total blocking time, and Time to Interactive on a simulated mid-tier mobile device.
Best practices
HTTPS, modern image formats, console errors, deprecated APIs, security headers, vulnerable JS libraries. The technical hygiene that signals a site is maintained.
SEO
Meta titles and descriptions, crawlability, mobile-friendliness, structured data presence, link text, hreflang. The on-page basics Google uses to understand and rank your site.
How it works02
From URL to scores in about 20 seconds.
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You paste a URL
Public, password-free pages only. We auto-add
https://if you forget it. - — 02
Google runs Lighthouse
We call the public PageSpeed Insights API on your behalf — same engine that powers Google's own developer tools, on a simulated mid-tier 4G mobile device.
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Four scores come back
Color-coded: green ≥ 90, amber 50–89, red < 50. Want the hand-written report with code-level fixes? That's the next step — and it's also free.
What's at risk03
5,000+ ADA web lawsuits hit small businesses in 2025.
Up 23.84% from 2024. 77% of defendants are small businesses earning under $25M. Average settlement runs $25,000–$50,000 — typically several times what remediation costs. The five industries most at risk:
Sources: EcomBack 2025 ADA Website Accessibility Lawsuit Report · UsableNet 2025 Year-End Report
See a problem? We fix it.
The instant audit gives you a score. The full WebCheer audit gives you a five-page written report with prioritized, code-level fixes — turnaround in five business days, also free.
Audit FAQ04
The honest answers people ask first.
Is this audit really free?
Yes — completely free. No email, no signup, no credit card. Run it on as many sites as you want. We use the public Google PageSpeed Insights API.
How is this different from running Lighthouse myself?
It isn't, technically — we use the same engine. Two differences: this runs on Google's servers (not your laptop, so no caching or extension noise), and if you book a follow-up we hand-write a remediation report with code-level fixes, not just a score.
What WCAG version do you audit against?
WCAG 2.1 AA, which is the standard referenced in most US ADA web-accessibility lawsuits and required by Section 508 for federal sites. We can also remediate to WCAG 2.2 AA on request.
An accessibility score of 100 means I'm ADA-compliant, right?
Not exactly. Lighthouse can only flag automated criteria — about 30–40% of the WCAG checklist. A 100 means you've passed every machine-checkable rule, which is a strong start, but full conformance also requires manual review (keyboard flows, screen-reader walkthroughs, content review). The free written report we send is where the manual layer happens.
Why mobile and not desktop?
Most US small-business traffic is mobile, and Google ranks based on the mobile version of your site. If your mobile experience passes, desktop almost always follows.
Does the audit slow down my site or trip security tools?
No. PageSpeed Insights makes a single visit to a public URL the way any visitor would. It hits no admin paths, sends no traffic spike, and respects robots.txt.