Six tools. All free. All public. All independent of VERIS.
Every finding in a VERIS audit references at least one of these tools. You do not need a Google account for most of them. Each one takes under 2 minutes to use.
Google Rich Results Test
No account requiredWhat it checks: Whether your website has valid schema markup and which schema types Google can detect.
How to use it:
- Go to search.google.com/test/rich-results
- Paste your full website URL (include https://)
- Click Test URL
- Wait for results (10-20 seconds)
What to look for:
- X items detected = schema types appear
- No items detected = no schema found (Critical)
- Warnings = missing required properties
What VERIS uses it for: Before screenshot confirms the gap exists. After screenshot confirms the implementation passes.
Google PageSpeed Insights
No account requiredWhat it checks: Core Web Vitals: LCP, CLS, and TBT. These affect load speed and stability, which AI systems factor into site quality.
How to use it:
- Go to pagespeed.web.dev
- Paste your full URL
- Click Analyze
- Select the Mobile tab
What to look for:
- Performance score 70+ is acceptable
- LCP under 2.5 seconds is good
- CLS under 0.1 is good
What VERIS uses it for: Plane 5 (Technical Performance). Identifies render-blocking scripts, oversized images, and layout instability.
OpenGraph.to
No account requiredWhat it checks: Open Graph meta tags and Twitter Card tags. Shows a score and a live preview for social platforms.
How to use it:
- Go to opengraph.to
- Paste your full URL
- Click Check
What to look for:
- Score 90+ is good
- og:image preview shows the correct image
- Descriptions are specific, not generic
What VERIS uses it for: Plane 4 (Social Meta). Verifies og:image URL and correct dimensions.
Lighthouse in Chrome DevTools
No account requiredWhat it checks: Performance, accessibility, best practices, and mobile rendering in a first-party browser tool.
How to use it:
- Open your page in Chrome
- Open DevTools and choose Lighthouse
- Select Mobile and click Analyze page load
What to look for:
- Accessibility issues affecting headings, buttons, or color contrast
- Large layout shifts or render-blocking assets
- Best-practice warnings that point to weak technical hygiene
What VERIS uses it for: Plane 5 (Technical Performance). Replaces Google's retired public Mobile-Friendly Test with a current first-party diagnostic.
Schema Markup Validator
No account requiredWhat it checks: Structural validity of JSON-LD schema against the schema.org specification.
How to use it:
- Go to validator.schema.org
- Paste your full URL in Fetch URL
- Click Run Test
What to look for:
- Errors = properties that violate the specification
- Warnings = properties present but misused
- Items = correctly parsed schema entities
What VERIS uses it for: Deep validation of JSON-LD after completion. Confirms no structural errors before delivery.
Google or Bing site: search
No account requiredWhat it checks: Whether pages are appearing in major web indexes. This is a useful public proxy for discovery, not a guarantee of AI inclusion.
How to use it:
- Go to google.com or bing.com
- Search: site:yourdomain.com
- Review results
What to look for:
- Pages appearing = some public index coverage exists
- No results = a crawl or index problem likely needs attention
What VERIS uses it for: Plane 2 (AI Crawler Access). A fast proxy check for whether the site is discoverable before deeper verification in Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools.
Bonus Check
Check your robots.txt without any tool.
This one requires no tool. Open your browser and type: https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt (replace yourdomain.com with your domain).
Look for lines containing OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, and any Google-Extended policy you choose to publish. If you see "Disallow: /" under any of the relevant agents, that crawler is blocked. If you see "Allow: /" it is allowed.
To check your llms.txt: visit yourdomain.com/llms.txt. A 404 page means the file is absent. Structured text means it is live.
ROBOTS.TXT QUICK CHECKtxt
# What you want to see: User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Allow: / User-agent: GPTBot Allow: / User-agent: PerplexityBot Allow: / User-agent: Google-Extended Allow: / User-agent: ClaudeBot Allow: / # What is a CRITICAL finding: User-agent: OAI-SearchBot Disallow: /