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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.

GET
/v1/composite/website-healthTry in Playground

Website Health: Combined SEO, accessibility, privacy, and HTTP-security audit with overall health grade

GET
/v1/composite/competitiveTry in Playground

Competitive Analysis: Benchmark scores across 2-5 domains with per-dimension gap analysis

GET
/v1/domain/compareTry in Playground

Domain Compare: Compare rankings, authority, and domain age across multiple domains

GET
/v1/advanced/mcpTry in Playground

MCP 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

javascript
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}`);
});

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