✓ The Roadworthy Test · free
Seventy-one checks on the things that decide whether a customer finds you, believes you and picks up the phone. You get a score out of 100, a verdict and a certificate you can keep. No opinions about how it looks.
Certificate of website roadworthiness
Nº TW–0000
dupreez-attorneys.co.za
Local service business · Scanned 14 August 2026
93
out of 100
Inspection
✓ The six inspection categories
A roadworthy test does not give a car one mark. It inspects the brakes, the lights, the tyres and the steering separately. Any one of them can fail it. This works the same way, so you can see exactly where the site is strong and where it is losing you work.
Titles, descriptions, sitemap, structured data and the local signals that decide whether you show up when someone searches your trade and your town.
Load speed, image weight, mobile layout, tap targets, broken links and images, colour contrast and the accessibility basics a real visitor runs into.
Is the number tappable, is there a form, does the form actually submit somewhere and is there a clear next step before a visitor has to scroll.
Real reviews, an About worth reading, credentials, trading hours and whether the site still shows the website builder's own sample text.
Whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI can read you, understand what you sell and act on your site for a customer. Most sites have never been checked for this.
Whether your domain can receive mail at all, and whether what you send is signed and protected against forgery, SPF, DKIM and DMARC. This is why a quote lands in a customer's spam folder, and no other free checker looks at it.
71 individual checks, every one with its evidence. Together they are the Roadworthy Test. Same list, same order, every site.
✓ How it works
Step one
Type your website address above. Nothing else, no signup.
Step two
Your site loads in a real browser, on a desktop screen and a phone screen, exactly the way a customer sees it. Then the checklist runs.
Step three
Your score out of 100, the verdict stamped across it and all six categories marked. Free, on screen, straight away. Download it or send somebody the link.
✓ What you get
You will see your score and where it is losing points straight away, without handing over anything. Leave an email address and the full fix list follows. Both are free, and there is nothing to buy on this page.
On screen, straight away
Emailed to you
Run the test, give me an email address and the whole report comes to you. I would rather you saw exactly what is wrong with your site and fixed it yourself than paid me for the privilege of finding out.
✓ Proof
A test is only worth running if the person holding it can do better. These are live client sites I designed and built, put through the same 71 checks. Type any of them into the form above and you will get the same numbers.
96
teraweb.co.za
My own studio site. Roadworthy.
89
pathteq.co.za
Courier company, replaced a WordPress site. Roadworthy.
86
fortitudosupplies.co.za
Bilingual distributor site, built from scratch. Roadworthy.
Measured 14 August 2026 by the same engine that runs above. Same numbers from any connection, on any day.
✓ Why trust the number
Most free website checkers hand your page to an AI and print whatever it says back. Run the same page twice and you get two different answers, because nothing was actually measured.
This one runs a fixed checklist. The same site scores the same every time. Every single finding shows you the evidence it came from, quoted off your own page, so if you disagree with something you can see exactly what it looked at.
A fixed checklist, not a language model guessing. Your score does not move because you ran it on a Tuesday.
Every finding quotes what it found on your page, so nothing is asserted without proof.
Written for a business that serves customers in a town, not for a corporate marketing department.
Three of the five possible outcomes are not a score at all. It stops and tells you what is actually wrong instead of inventing a number.
✓ When there is no score
Every other checker on the internet will hand you a confident score no matter what it found. Three of the five things this test can come back with are not a score at all. When one of them is what it finds, it stops and tells you what is actually wrong, because a mark out of 100 would imply something had been measured.
Outcome 1
The address answers, but what it serves is a holding page. Anything printed on your vehicle, your board or your invoices is currently sending people to a dead end. Google has nothing to index.
Outcome 2
Flash was switched off worldwide on 31 December 2020 and every browser blocks it. Phones never ran it at all. Every visitor for the last five years has seen a blank panel.
Outcome 3
Frames were removed from the HTML standard in 2014. There is no single page for Google to rank, no page anyone can link to and it does not work on a phone.
The other two outcomes are a real score and a site that turned the scanner away at the door. That last one is worth knowing too, because whatever blocks an automated visitor from a data centre may also be blocking the crawlers that AI assistants use to find and recommend businesses.
✓ Frequently asked
Yes, and so is the report. You get your score, your verdict, all six inspection categories, your quickest wins and the certificate itself on screen without paying anything or handing over an email address. Leave one and the full fix list comes to you as well, also free. There is nothing to buy on this page.
No. That is deliberate. Taste is not something a checklist should pretend to measure. This scores whether the site works, whether it can be found and whether a customer can actually reach you. If you want a view on how it looks, ask me and I will tell you straight.
When somebody asks ChatGPT or Google's AI for a business like yours, something has to read your website first. Plenty of sites accidentally block those readers, hide their contact details from them or give them nothing to work with. This checks whether yours is one of them and tells you what to change.
What it deliberately does not do is tell you what ChatGPT currently says about you. Some tools sell that number. Ask the same question twice and you get two different answers, so it is a reading you cannot act on and cannot check. This measures whether the door is open. Walking through it is your marketing, not a number.
Yes. That is rather the point. Every result has a link that opens the same certificate for anybody you send it to, plus a download button that saves it as an image for WhatsApp or an email. Nobody needs to sign in to see it. If you are the person who has been telling the owner their site needs work, this is the sentence you have been missing.
It will be honest. Builders handle a lot of the technical basics well and you get credit for that. Where they cost you is a rented web address you do not own, the builder's own advertising on your page and sample text left behind where your content should be. Those get flagged, because they are real and they are fixable.
I keep your website address and, if you give it, your email so I can send your report. I do not sell anything to anybody. Full detail is in the privacy policy.
Then say so and I will quote you. There are two honest routes and the report tells you which one you are on.
Short list, hand-coded site. I work through it and you keep the site you have. Quickest and cheapest by a distance.
Long list. Or a builder or CMS underneath. Past a certain number of defects, replacing a site costs less than repairing one. Patching somebody else's CMS is not work I take on either. The report says plainly which side of that line you are on rather than leaving you to guess, plus it ships with a technical work order so you can hand it to your own developer instead if you would rather.
One address, about a minute, no signup to see the verdict. If it comes back worse than you expected, that is worth knowing before your next customer finds out first.