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SiteRune vs Sitebulb
· Configuration notes, not a newsroom.
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.
SIVisual SEO vs a ship tab
Sitebulb is excellent at showing crawl diagrams and hinting at template issues. SiteRune does not draw a graph. It fingerprints WordPress vs Next vs Shopify and writes the fix in that dialect.
GEO is not a Sitebulb chapter
llms.txt, GPTBot policy, and 'what a model would have to invent' are SiteRune's AEO chapter. Sitebulb will not generate security.txt. Run Sitebulb for the deep crawl. Run SiteRune for the paste-ready week.
Capability table
| 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 |
FAQ
Does SiteRune replace sitebulb?
No. Use the comparison table. SiteRune is a hosted configuration brief with CMS dialect and ship files. It does not replace rank tracking, backlink graphs, lab Core Web Vitals, or a desktop site-wide crawl.
What does a SiteRune scan actually fetch?
HTML and headers from this vantage point, robots.txt, sitemap, llms.txt, security.txt, and a polite walk of same-origin interiors. No headless Chrome. No exploits.
Run it on a live URL
Same scan engine. Guest scans stay free.