sounding.
Do your pages actually say anything?
A sounding is a depth check. Put your site in, and each published page comes back with a per-field verdict — keep, change, or too thin to cite — with a confidence score behind every call. Read-only. Nothing is rewritten, nothing is published.
- 0.70+ recommendation
- 0.40–0.69 review
- <0.40 dropped
What sounding does
1 · It reads your pages cold
Start from any URL. Sounding discovers up to 8 of your internal pages and reads each one the way search and answer engines meet it: title tag, meta description, H1, FAQ content, and structured-data markup.
2 · It judges each field
Every field gets a typed verdict against fixed criteria — not vibes, not free-form chat. A confidence score comes with each call, so you know which verdicts to act on and which are too close to call.
3 · It tells you what to fix first
High-confidence recommendations rise to the top; low-confidence noise is dropped, not dressed up as advice. You keep full control: sounding reports, you decide, someone (or something) else edits.
The seven fields, and what a verdict means
- title
- keep when it is specific to this page and not interchangeable with its siblings. change when it is generic, duplicated across pages, or missing what the page is about.
- meta description
- keep when it summarizes this page and differs from siblings. change when it is boilerplate, vague, or mismatched to the content.
- H1 heading
- keep when it states what this page offers in its own words. change when it is a templated fill-in that reads identically everywhere.
- FAQ
- keep when present and substantive. thin when present but generic — it adds nothing siblings don't already say. missing when the page has none.
- structured data
- keep when schema.org markup is present and right for the page type. wrong when it misleads. missing when the page ships none — invisible to machines that could cite you.
- unique vs siblings
- Does this page say something its sibling pages don't? The recurring cause of "thin": one template, many URLs, no distinguishing substance.
- citable
- Could an answer engine — AI search — plausibly quote this page as a source for a specific question in its topic area? This is the GEO bottom line.
How to read the scores
A confidence score rides with every verdict:
- 0.70 and up — recommendation. Act on it. The judgment is specific enough to stand behind.
- 0.40 to 0.69 — review. A real signal, but close. Read the field yourself before spending effort.
- Below 0.40 — dropped. Not enough signal to cite. Chasing it is how sites get optimized into mush.
A real result (billing-site homepage, first run): FAQ missing at 1.00, structured data missing at 1.00, H1 change at 0.72 — three same-day fixes, found in under a minute.
Questions people ask
What does "too thin to cite" mean?
It means an answer engine — AI search — would have no reason to quote the page, because it does not say anything specific. Usually that is templated copy that reads identically across sibling pages, a missing FAQ, or a page whose only substance is a headline. Sounding surfaces exactly which fields are thin so you know where the depth has to come from.
Does sounding edit or publish anything on my site?
No. Sounding is strictly read-only. It fetches your published pages, judges them, and returns verdicts. It never rewrites copy, never logs in, and never publishes a change. What you do with the verdicts is entirely up to you.
How are the verdicts produced?
Each page gets exactly one typed call to a judgment model (Typesafe System One, model jev-latest) against fixed, published criteria per field. The model returns a choice — keep, change, thin, missing, wrong — plus a confidence score. There is no free-form prose and no ghostwriting: the judgment is constrained to the criteria, which is what makes the confidence scores meaningful.
What sites can I check?
Any public http(s) site. Start from any URL: sounding fetches that page, discovers up to 8 of its internal pages, and judges each one. Static sites, server-rendered sites, and client-rendered HTML all work as long as the pages are publicly reachable without a login.
What does a run cost?
One judgment call per page, at most 8 pages per run. No page content is stored: pages are fetched, judged in memory, and returned to your browser; the server keeps nothing.
Why is it called sounding?
A sounding is a depth measurement — dropping a line to find out how deep the water is. This tool drops a line into each of your pages and reports where the depth actually is, field by field, instead of guessing from the surface.