Alternative
Sitebulb Alternative for CMS-Aware Audits
Sitebulb is excellent at showing how a site is connected. SiteRune does not draw that graph. It fingerprints the stack and writes the fix in that dialect — including AEO, which Sitebulb does not treat as a first-class chapter.
When SiteRune is the better fit
- You want a browser-based brief with WordPress / Next / Shopify language.
- You care about GPTBot, llms.txt, and security.txt in the same pass as titles.
- You want nginx or mu-plugin snippets attached to the findings.
When Sitebulb is the better fit
- You need visual crawl hints and template clustering across a large site.
- Your team already standardizes on Sitebulb projects and exports.
Overlap
- Both are closer to an SEO audit than to a rank tracker.
- Both expect you to still use GSC for what Google actually indexed.
Side by side
| Capability | SiteRune | Sitebulb |
|---|---|---|
| Installation required | No | yes (desktop) |
| Crawl diagrams / hints | No | Yes |
| Deep site-wide crawl | Capped walk | Yes |
| CMS-specific ship files | Yes | No |
| AI-search / AEO chapter | Yes | No |
| security.txt / llms.txt drafts | Yes | No |
| Hosted, no install | Yes | No |
Questions
Is SiteRune a Sitebulb killer?
No. Different output. Run Sitebulb for the deep crawl. Run SiteRune for the paste-ready week and the AI-search chapter.
Longer comparison: SiteRune vs Sitebulb.