Holistic Website Health Assessment
Unified SEO, accessibility, privacy, and HTTP-security benchmarking in a single report
Leadership needs a single view of website quality — not fragmented reports from five different tools. EdgeDNS composite endpoints deliver executive-ready health scores covering SEO, accessibility, privacy, and HTTP security headers (HSTS / CSP / X-Frame-Options) in one API call, with competitive benchmarking against your market.
The Challenge
Website quality spans multiple dimensions — SEO, accessibility, privacy, security headers, performance — but reporting is fragmented across siloed tools. Engineering, marketing, security, and compliance teams each use different metrics. Leaders need a unified view to prioritize investments and track improvement, not a dozen dashboards.
The Solution
Use EdgeDNS composite APIs to get a holistic website health score in a single call — SEO + accessibility + privacy + HTTP security headers, weighted 30 / 30 / 20 / 20. Benchmark against 2–5 competitors with gap analysis, compare domain authority and rankings, and integrate AI-powered domain intelligence into strategic discussions via MCP.
Endpoints Used
Combine these EdgeDNS endpoints to build this solution.
/v1/composite/website-healthTry in PlaygroundWebsite Health: Combined SEO, accessibility, privacy, and HTTP-security audit with overall health grade
/v1/composite/competitiveTry in PlaygroundCompetitive Analysis: Benchmark scores across 2-5 domains with per-dimension gap analysis
/v1/domain/compareTry in PlaygroundDomain Compare: Compare rankings, authority, and domain age across multiple domains
/v1/advanced/mcpTry in PlaygroundMCP Server: AI-powered domain intelligence via Model Context Protocol for strategic analysis
Results You Can Achieve
SEO + accessibility + privacy + security in one call
Composite grade plus per-pillar sub-scores (weighted 30 / 30 / 20 / 20). Security pillar checks HSTS, CSP, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, and Permissions-Policy — closing the Mozilla Observatory gap. Suitable for executive or board-level reporting.
2–5 domain side-by-side comparison
Direct competitive gap analysis across all quality dimensions — no spreadsheet stitching required.
MCP integration for AI assistants
Claude, ChatGPT, and other MCP clients can query domain health directly during planning, architecture review, or sales conversations.
Code Example
Generate executive website health report
const myDomain = 'example.com';
const competitors = 'competitor1.com,competitor2.com,competitor3.com';
const headers = { 'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' };
const [health, competitive, compare] = await Promise.all([
fetch(`https://api.edgedns.dev/v1/composite/website-health?domain=${myDomain}`, { headers }),
fetch(`https://api.edgedns.dev/v1/composite/competitive?domains=${myDomain},${competitors}`, { headers }),
fetch(`https://api.edgedns.dev/v1/domain/compare?domains=${myDomain},${competitors}`, { headers }),
].map(p => p.then(r => r.json())));
console.log('=== Website Health Report ===');
console.log('Overall Grade:', health.data.overallGrade);
console.log('SEO: ', health.data.scores.seo?.grade);
console.log('Accessibility: ', health.data.scores.accessibility?.grade);
console.log('Privacy: ', health.data.scores.privacy?.grade);
console.log('Security: ', health.data.scores.security?.grade);
// Drill into the security pillar — flags the missing-HSTS / weak-CSP findings
// that drag the headline grade down.
if (health.data.scores.security) {
const sec = health.data.scores.security.details;
console.log(' HSTS preload-eligible:', sec.hsts.meets_preload_requirements);
console.log(' CSP enforced (not report-only):', sec.csp.present && !sec.csp.report_only);
console.log(' X-Frame-Options:', sec.x_frame_options ?? 'missing');
}
console.log('\n=== Competitive Position ===');
competitive.data.domains.forEach(d => {
console.log(`#${d.rank} ${d.domain}: Overall ${d.overall?.grade} (gap: ${d.overall?.gap || 0} pts)`);
});
// topRecommendations are tagged by source — including 'security' findings now.
console.log('\nTop Recommendations:');
health.data.topRecommendations?.forEach(r => {
console.log(` [${r.source}/${r.severity}] ${r.text}`);
});Learn More
Explore industry standards and best practices related to this use case.
Google Search Quality Evaluator Guidelines
Google's guidelines for evaluating overall website quality, expertise, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness (E-E-A-T)
W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
W3C initiative providing strategies, standards, and resources to make the web accessible to people with disabilities
Model Context Protocol Specification
Open specification for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data sources via standardized protocol
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