# Auditope

> Auditope is a self-serve website audit service by CAI Technology S.R.L. (Romania, EU). One audit covers SEO, AI search visibility (GEO), performance, security, GDPR and WCAG accessibility, and produces a prioritised PDF report plus a JSON export. Hosted in the EU; the AI synthesis runs on self-hosted models.

- Site: https://auditope.com/ (English) and https://auditope.com/ro (Romanian)
- Operator: CAI Technology S.R.L., VAT ID RO50512457, https://caitech.eu
- Contact: technic@auditope.com (support), sales@auditope.com (sales), office@auditope.com (general)
- Plan Express L1: Free. Quick check with top-5 critical signals. No account, 1 audit/day.
- Plan Pro L2 Complete: €19 / audit. Complete 30+ page report with concrete prescriptions. Free re-audit 30 days.
- Plan Subscription Pro: €49 / month. Unlimited L2 audits + continuous monitoring. For agencies & studios.
- Plan Enterprise L3: from €199 / audit. L2 + manual expert review + 90-day monitoring + custom branding.
- Credit packs for individual audits are also sold on the pricing page.
- The audit crawler (CAI-Audit-Bot) respects robots.txt; identification and opt-out on the bot page.

## Product
- [Home](https://auditope.com/): What Auditope audits: SEO, AI search (GEO), performance, security, GDPR and WCAG, in one PDF report.
- [How it works](https://auditope.com/cum-functioneaza): The audit pipeline step by step, from crawl to the prioritised PDF report.
- [Pricing](https://auditope.com/pricing): Plans (free Express, Pro, monthly Subscription, Enterprise) and credit packs for individual audits.
- [Demo audits](https://auditope.com/audituri): Real sample reports produced by Auditope.
- [EU sovereignty](https://auditope.com/sovereignty): Where data and AI processing run: EU-hosted infrastructure, no US cloud.
- [Auditope and ARTEMIS](https://auditope.com/ecosystem): How the passive auditor (Auditope) and the active pentest scanner (ARTEMIS) fit together.

## Free tools
- [Free tools](https://auditope.com/tools): Free single-purpose checks, no account needed.
- [Security headers check](https://auditope.com/tools/headers-check): Grade a site's HTTP security headers (CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options and more).
- [Cookie check](https://auditope.com/tools/cookie-check): List the cookies a page sets and flag GDPR consent problems.
- [Sovereignty score](https://auditope.com/tools/sovereignty-score): Estimate how much of a site depends on non-EU providers.

## Company
- [About](https://auditope.com/about): The CAI Technology team behind Auditope.
- [CAI-Audit-Bot](https://auditope.com/bot-info): How to identify, rate-limit or block the Auditope audit crawler.

## Resources
- [Blog](https://auditope.com/blog): Articles on SEO, AI search, performance, security, GDPR and accessibility.
- [Legal documents](https://auditope.com/legal): Terms, privacy, cookies, AI notice, accessibility statement and the other legal documents.

## Blog posts
- [8 cookie dark patterns CNIL is fining in 2026 (and how to detect them)](https://auditope.com/blog/cookie-dark-patterns-cnil-fines-2026): CNIL fined €486.8M in 2025 + €42M in Jan 2026 (Free Mobile + Free SAS) for cookie banner dark patterns. Here are the 8 specific patterns being penalized, with detection criteria and concrete fix examples.
- [What our first 100 audits reveal about EU web health (and where it hurts)](https://auditope.com/blog/what-our-first-100-audits-reveal-eu-web-2026): We've now run ~100 audits across Romanian SMBs, EU agencies, and a handful of fintech sites since launching. The aggregate data is grim and instructive. Median health score 58/100. 78% fail at least one EAA criterion. 91% miss DNSSEC. Here's what's broken at the population level — and the 3 patterns that explain most failures.
- [EU AI Act Article 50: are you ready for August 2026?](https://auditope.com/blog/ai-act-article-50-august-2026-deadline): Hard deadline 2 August 2026: every website with a chatbot or AI-generated content must disclose it. Penalties up to €35M or 7% global revenue. Here's the technical checklist.
- [WCAG 2.2 EAA tactical checklist — the 23 things to fix before audit](https://auditope.com/blog/wcag-22-eaa-tactical-checklist-2025): European Accessibility Act came into force June 28, 2025. WCAG 2.2 AA is the de-facto compliance baseline. This is the tactical checklist — 23 concrete fixes that get most EU sites from failing to passing. Ordered by impact-to-effort ratio.
- [DNSSEC mandate March 2026 will block your SSL renewal (and almost no audit tool warns)](https://auditope.com/blog/dnssec-mandate-march-2026-ssl-renewal-block): CA/B Forum ballot SC-085v2 makes DNSSEC validation mandatory for certificate issuance from 15 March 2026. Misconfigured DNSSEC = no SSL renewal. Less than 10% of audit tools check this — Auditope does.
- [What is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)? A practical 2026 primer](https://auditope.com/blog/what-is-geo-generative-engine-optimization-2026): GEO is to ChatGPT and Perplexity what SEO is to Google. By 2026, an estimated 15-20% of search queries start in an LLM, not a search engine. If your content isn't structured for AI citation, you're invisible to that traffic. Here's what GEO is, what's different from SEO, and the 5 concrete things to do this quarter.
- [AI crawler robots.txt: block training, allow retrieval (2026 best practice)](https://auditope.com/blog/ai-crawler-robots-txt-2026-best-practice): Not all AI crawlers are equal. Training bots (GPTBot, CCBot) scrape for model data with zero attribution. Retrieval bots (ChatGPT-User, ClaudeWeb) fetch in real-time and cite you. Here's the per-bot policy that maximizes AI visibility.
- [How to read your AuditOPE report (every section explained)](https://auditope.com/blog/read-your-audit-report-walkthrough): First time getting an AuditOPE report? It's dense — 22 phases, dozens of findings, health score 0-100, severity badges, fix-effort minutes. This walkthrough explains each section: what to fix first, what to ignore (it depends), and how to use the JSON export in your CI pipeline.
- [AuditOPE vs Screaming Frog: when desktop crawler beats SaaS (and vice versa)](https://auditope.com/blog/auditope-vs-screaming-frog-headless): Screaming Frog v24 is the gold standard for technical SEO crawling — flexible, scriptable, runs on your machine. AuditOPE is the opposite: zero install, SaaS, bilingual PDF + compliance evidence. They're complementary, not competing. Here's when to pick which.
- [INP replaced FID in 2024 — what changed and why your old Lighthouse score lies](https://auditope.com/blog/inp-replaced-fid-core-web-vitals-2026): First Input Delay was deprecated September 2024. INP (Interaction to Next Paint) measures the full interaction window — clicks, taps, keypresses — to next visible paint. Threshold: 200ms p75. Many sites that scored 'Good' on FID fail INP badly.
- [AuditOPE vs Semrush: when to use which (and why we don't compete on backlinks)](https://auditope.com/blog/auditope-vs-semrush-eu-compliance): Semrush has the best backlink graph in the industry. We don't try to beat that. Our wedge is EU compliance depth (NIS2, EAA, DORA, AI Act) bundled with technical SEO + GEO — none of which Semrush ships natively. Here's a factual comparison so you can pick the right tool for each job.
- [AuditOPE vs Sitechecker: which to pick when EU sovereignty matters](https://auditope.com/blog/auditope-vs-sitechecker-eu-sovereignty): Sitechecker is a great SEO audit tool with good UX. But it runs on AWS US-East and uses OpenAI for AI synthesis. For EU teams that need GDPR, NIS2, EAA, and DORA compliance with zero US data transit, the only correct answer in 2026 is a sovereign EU stack. Here's a head-to-head.
- [GEO / AEO: How to get cited in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity](https://auditope.com/blog/geo-aeo-citability-2026): Generative Engine Optimization is the new SEO. Princeton & Georgia Tech research (2024) shows AI engines prefer self-contained 134-167 word passages. Here's how to structure your content for citability.
- [Core Web Vitals 2026: INP replaced FID, what changed](https://auditope.com/blog/core-web-vitals-2026-inp): INP (Interaction to Next Paint) became the Core Web Vital in March 2024, replacing FID. Targets are stricter (good = ≤200ms vs FID ≤100ms). Here's how to audit and fix INP regressions.
- [Security headers: from D to A+ in 30 minutes](https://auditope.com/blog/security-headers-d-to-a-plus): Most production sites score D or E on Mozilla Observatory and Securityheaders.com. Six headers (CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy, COEP/COOP) move you to A+ — here's the recipe.
- [GDPR & ANSPDCP: Concrete checklist for SMBs](https://auditope.com/blog/gdpr-anspdcp-checklist-smb-ro): ANSPDCP (Romanian DPA) issued €19M+ in fines in 2024-2025. Most violations are preventable. Here's an 8-point pre-launch checklist focused on cookies, consent, retention, and data subject rights.
- [WCAG 2.2 + EU Accessibility Act: What changed June 2025](https://auditope.com/blog/wcag-22-eu-accessibility-act-2025): EU Accessibility Act (Directive 2019/882) became enforceable on 28 June 2025. WCAG 2.2 added 9 new success criteria. Together, they extend accessibility obligations to most B2C digital services.

## Legal
- [Privacy policy](https://auditope.com/legal/privacy): How we collect, use and protect personal data under the GDPR.
- [Terms and conditions](https://auditope.com/legal/terms): The terms of use of the Auditope platform.
- [Cookies policy](https://auditope.com/legal/cookies): Which cookies we use and how to manage them.
- [Acceptable Use Policy](https://auditope.com/legal/aup): Platform usage rules: what is allowed and what is not.
- [Disclaimer](https://auditope.com/legal/disclaimer): Limits of liability for audit reports.
- [Refund policy](https://auditope.com/legal/refund): How refunds are requested and processed.
- [Subprocessors list](https://auditope.com/legal/subprocessors): Third parties that process personal data (Stripe, Let's Encrypt and others).
- [Vulnerability Disclosure Program](https://auditope.com/legal/vdp): How to report security vulnerabilities (RFC 9116).
- [AI Notice · Transparency](https://auditope.com/legal/ai-notice): How we use the self-hosted AI model and which data goes through it.
- [Legal notice](https://auditope.com/legal/legal-notice): Operator details and identification of CAI Technology S.R.L.
- [Accessibility statement](https://auditope.com/legal/accessibility): WCAG 2.2 AA compliance: public statement under the EU Accessibility Act.

## Optional
- [Romanian version](https://auditope.com/ro): every page above also exists in Romanian under /ro
- [Full text for LLMs](https://auditope.com/llms-full.txt): plans, FAQ and all articles as plain text
- [RSS feed](https://auditope.com/rss.xml)
- [Sitemap](https://auditope.com/sitemap.xml)