SiteRune vs the tools people confuse us with

Lighthouse is a lab score of one URL in a synthetic browser. SiteRune is a crawler brief with CMS dialect and ship files. You probably want both. They are not substitutes.

Semrush is a keyword and backlink suite. SiteRune is not a rank tracker. It will not sell you a PDF of the same four issues every Monday.

PageSpeed Insights is Lighthouse on a Google URL. SiteRune does not run Chrome. Use PSI for LCP/INP proof. Use SiteRune for headers, robots, schema, and the CMS playbook.

Ahrefs is backlinks, keywords, and site-explorer. SiteRune is not a rank tracker. It will not estimate referring domains. It will tell you GPTBot is banned.

Screaming Frog is a desktop crawler that can eat a whole site. SiteRune is a hosted brief of a polite handful of URLs plus ship files. Not a substitute.

Sitebulb is a desktop audit with graphs. SiteRune is a hosted CMS dialect plus AI-search and ship files. You might want both. They are not the same CSV.

Those tools grade response headers. SiteRune grades headers too — then robots, schema, interior pages, and a CMS playbook. A+ headers and a banned GPTBot can both be true.

Qualys SSL Labs grades the TLS handshake. SiteRune notes protocol when we can see it and scores HSTS on the document. Not a certificate auditor.

Those extensions list technologies. SiteRune fingerprints a CMS to write a dialect — then scores the origin. A logo cloud is not a playbook.

Filmstrip tools run a browser. SiteRune does not. Use them for LCP waterfalls. Use SiteRune for TTFB from this vantage point, cache headers, and the CMS punch list.

Search Console is Google's field report for your property. SiteRune is one vantage-point crawl plus files. We will not replace coverage charts or Core Web Vitals in CrUX.

Yoast lives inside WordPress. SiteRune fetches the public origin. A green traffic light in the editor is not HSTS, and it is not an llms.txt.

We are not a pentest. We do not fuzz, brute-force, or ship exploits. If a vendor scores headers and then attaches a PoC, they are mixing jobs. We refuse the second job.

Those tools score keyword coverage in a draft. SiteRune scores whether an answer engine is allowed to fetch you and can ground an entity. NLP density is not GEO.

Enterprise crawlers ingest logs and millions of URLs. SiteRune is a senior-engineer brief for a host you paste today. Different budget, different output.