It Feels Slow
A client emails to ask why the site feels slow. It looks fine on your machine, so you open four tools, read three of them properly, and end up answering with a guess in front of somebody who is paying you.
Know What Is Wrong With A Client's Site Before They Do.
Find prospects, check their sites, send one report.
Scout runs sixteen checks over a domain in about a minute: the domain and its mail, HTTPS and security headers, SEO and accessibility, the Google listing, AI search readiness, analytics and contact forms. Every finding comes back with a severity, a sentence anyone can read, and a fix written for the platform the site actually runs on.
D
62 / 100
riversidedental.com
Sixteen areas, scanned in 54 seconds
Riverside Family Dental
Top Issue
The contact form posts over plain HTTP, so every patient who fills it in sends their name and phone number in the clear and sees a browser warning while they do it.
- FailContact form does not submit over HTTPScritical
- FailNo DMARC record, so anyone can send mail as this domainhigh
- WarningGoogle listing has no opening hoursmedium
- WarningFour pages share one meta descriptionmedium
- PassCertificate is valid and the chain is completelow
The Problem, In Their Words
Three conversations every agency has already had, and the reason this tool exists.
The Pitch With No Proof
You know their site is in trouble. You say so in the meeting, everybody nods, and nothing is signed, because an opinion is not evidence and nobody buys a hunch about their own website.
Nobody Noticed For A Month
The certificate expired, the contact form stopped sending, or the domain landed on a blocklist. It sat like that for weeks, and the client is the one who found it.
One Scan, Sixteen Answers
Every check runs on its own, so a scan is the full inspection, one of the presets in the scan form, or exactly the checks you are being paid for. Paste a list of domains and Scout works through the lot.
Site Quality
Whether the site is quick, current, and easy to read for a visitor, a search engine, or an assistant.
Technology
The CMS, builder, host, and tools behind the site.
Page Delivery
How fast and heavy the homepage is.
Social Preview
How links to the site look when shared.
SEO
Titles, descriptions, headings, and indexability across the site's key pages.
AI Search Readiness
Whether AI assistants can crawl the site, understand the business, and cite its pages.
Accessibility
Alt text, labels, headings, and zoom.
Local Business
Whether a nearby customer can find the business, trust what they find, and get in touch.
Local SEO
Name, address, phone, business schema, map, and the Google listing.
Contact Forms
Whether the contact form is reachable, protected from spam, and submits securely.
Analytics & Pixels
Analytics and ad pixels present, not duplicated, and paired with consent, including what the tag manager loads.
Legal Basics
Privacy policy, terms, cookie notice, and an up-to-date footer.
Security
Whether the site is served safely, kept up to date, and pointing where it should.
Web
HTTPS, redirects, certificate chain, security headers, cookies, and mixed content.
WordPress
Plugin and theme inventory read from the homepage, plus exposed files, outdated core, and login weaknesses.
Redirect Domains
Sibling domains such as .net or .org that should redirect to the main site.
Email Deliverability
Whether mail sent from the domain will be trusted, and whether anything has it blocked.
Domain
Registration, expiry, nameservers, and DNSSEC.
Email
Whether mail from this domain will be trusted: SPF, DKIM, DMARC.
Blacklists
Whether the site or mail server is on a mail or browser blocklist.
All of it is read only. Nothing is installed on the client's site, the WordPress inventory is read off the homepage like any visitor would, and the deeper WordPress probes wait until you confirm the owner is happy for them to run. When a Google listing is hard to find, give Scout the business name and the town, or paste the Maps link, and it looks again.
The Report They Actually Read
One page per scan: a score out of a hundred, a letter grade, and the single issue worth fixing first named at the top. Anchor links across the head jump to any area, and inside each one the findings sit in severity order with the facts the check read printed beside them.
The fix plan is written in plain English and knows what the site is built on. A WordPress site on SiteGround behind Cloudflare gets steps that name those consoles rather than telling somebody to edit their web server. The steps read as a checklist a client can hand to whoever does the work, and every one says why it matters.
- A written summary on demand, when the whole thing needs to be a paragraph.
- A signed public link, so a client reads the report without an account.
- Two faces: the lab view for your team, and a light client document with your brand on it.
Tailored To This SiteWordPressSiteGroundCloudflare
- 1.Force HTTPS across the whole sitecriticalSiteGround Site ToolsWeb
Four pages answer on plain HTTP without redirecting, and one of them is the contact page.
1. In SiteGround Site Tools, open Security, then HTTPS Enforce, and switch it on for riversidedental.com.
2. In WordPress, under Settings, General, change both the WordPress Address and the Site Address to the https version.
3. Load the contact page in a private window and look for the padlock. If it is missing, one image or script is still on http, so search the theme for http:// and correct it.
Plus nine more, ordered by what actually moves the score.
Prove The Work
Mark a finding fixed and Scout remembers it. Re-check that one area rather than re-running the whole scan, and the next full scan verifies the mark on its own. The before and after page reads the two scans together and lists what was fixed, what is new, and what is still open, which is the page that shows a client what your month actually bought them.
Every client also has a page of their own: each full scan of the domain, a score line drawn across them, today's top issue, and the findings somebody decided to accept with the reason they gave for accepting them.
Before
F
58 / 100
After
B
84 / 100
Riverside Family Dental
Six scans since 14 July
Fixed
- Contact form now submits over HTTPS
- DMARC published at p=quarantine
- Opening hours added to the Google listing
Two findings accepted, with the reason recorded against each.
Never Find Out From The Client
Put any domain on the watchdog and Scout re-scans it daily or weekly, running the checks you chose rather than all of them. When something moves, a digest arrives ranked worst first: an expiring certificate, a grade that dropped, a check that started failing, a blocklist hit, a DMARC policy somebody changed.
It goes to your inbox, or into your Slack, or both. When nothing has changed, nothing is sent, which is the only reason a daily email like this stays worth opening.
Scout found 3 changes on riversidedental.com
Daily watch, all sixteen areas, ran 06:12
- Certificate ExpiryThe certificate expires in 6 days
- New FailureThe contact form no longer submits
- Grade DropB down to C, three new warnings in SEO
Nothing changed yesterday, so nothing was sent.
Find The Next Client
The other half of Scout. It finds local businesses whose websites need the work, ranks them by who needs you most, and writes the first email for you.
Google Maps
Pick a trade and a town, set a distance, and Scout searches the map for the businesses that match.
Web Search
Search the open web by keyword and place, for the trades that never claimed a Google listing at all.
Paste Domains
Already have a list? Paste up to twenty five web addresses and every one of them gets scanned.
Google Maps and a web search each turn one press into twenty businesses, and a pasted list runs to twenty five. Every one of them is scanned. Domains you already have as clients, already watch, or already decided against are dropped before anything runs, and your own site is never in your own list.
| Business | Lead | Grade | Top Issues |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hillside Veterinary Clinichillsidevet.example | 82 | F41 | No HTTPS on the contact formHomepage takes 5.8sNo analytics at all |
| Marren and Sons Plumbingmarrenplumbing.example | 74 | D62 | No business schemaTitle too long on 6 pages |
| Northgate Auto Repairnorthgateauto.example | 61 | C71 | Meta description missing |
Scroll the table sideways for the rest of the columns.
A Lead Score, Not A Site Score
The ranking is not the site's grade turned upside down. A business already running ad pixels is spending money. A business with no analytics at all has an obvious first job. Twenty reviews say it is established and can pay. The one worth calling today ends up at the top.
A Dossier On Each One
A screenshot of the homepage, the platform it runs on, the state of its Google listing, a few plain sentences on the condition of its online presence, and the angle to lead with. Review Top 5 does the best five in one press.
The First Email, Already Written
Under a hundred and seventy words, two concrete findings from their own site, the Google listing where that is the angle, and a short call at the end. Written in your voice rather than a template, and ready to send.
A Pipeline, Not A Spreadsheet
Move a prospect through New, Contacted, Replied, Meeting, Won and Lost. Export the list as a CSV whenever you want it elsewhere. Add To Clients turns a won prospect into a scanned, monitored client in one press.
Subject
Two things on hillsidevet.example that are costing you calls
Your homepage takes about six seconds to load on a phone, and your contact form posts over plain HTTP, so anyone filling it in gets a browser warning while they type their number. Both of those cost you calls quietly, in a place you would never think to look.
Your Google listing is in better shape than the site is: 4.6 across 128 reviews, but with no opening hours on it, so a search after five gives people nothing to act on.
I put a short report together on all of it. Worth fifteen minutes on the phone this week?
Compare Against The Competition
Name up to three rival sites and Scout scans them on the checks that only read a site's own public pages, then reads the results side by side: where your client leads, where they are behind, and what each rival is doing differently. It is the slide that ends the argument about whether the work is worth paying for.
| Area | riversidedental.com | brightsmile.example |
|---|---|---|
| Grade | D | A |
| Page Delivery | 72 | 91 |
| SEO | 58 | 84 |
| Local SEO | 81 | 62 |
| Accessibility | 49 | 73 |
Scroll the table sideways for the rest of the columns.
Built For Agencies
Every partner agency gets a workspace of its own. Your scans, clients, monitors and prospect lists live inside it, and the other agencies on Scout cannot see any of it. Your people sign in with their own addresses, so you always know who ran what.
It costs you nothing beyond the allowance in your workspace. The Google calls, the web searches and the model calls are all on Push Button.
What A Partner Gets On Day One
- A workspace of your own, with a monthly scan allowance that belongs to you.
- Module access set per workspace, so the heavy checks stay off a job that does not need them.
- Reports co-branded with Push Button, or white label with only your name on them.
- People added by pasting a name and an email.
- Sign-in by emailed link, so nobody on your team shares a password.
- Who ran what, recorded against every scan.
- Digests to your own inbox or your own Slack.
- A Send Feedback button that reaches Paul with the page and the check attached.
How It Works
Scan A Domain
Type the domain, pick the checks you want, and the run finishes while you read the first result. Nothing to install and nothing to set up on the client's side.
Read The Report And The Fix Plan
One score, every finding in plain English, and a fix plan ordered by what actually moves the number. Send it as it stands or hand the developer the technical half.
Watch It Over Time
Put the domain on the watchdog and Scout tells you when something changes. A before and after report shows the client exactly what your work did.
Questions
Do I need to install anything on the client's site?
No. There is no plugin, no snippet and no access to ask for. Scout reads what any visitor and any search engine can already see, plus the public records behind the domain.
Will the scan slow down or touch the site?
It is read only, and the request budget is capped per area, so a scan costs a site roughly what one careful visitor costs it. The only checks that go further are the deeper WordPress probes, and those wait until you confirm the owner is happy for them to run.
Who sees the report?
You and your workspace. Nobody else on Scout can see your scans. When you want a client to read one, you send them a signed link and they open a clean document with no account and no login.
Can I put my own brand on it?
Yes, and it is set per workspace. A client report is either co-branded, which reads as prepared by you with Push Button, or white label, which carries only your name.
What does it cost me?
Nothing beyond the monthly scan allowance on your workspace. The Google Places calls, the web searches, the screenshots and the model calls behind the writing are all paid for by Push Button.
How do I get access?
Press Request Access and tell us who you are. Paul adds you to a workspace, you get an invite by email, and from then on you sign in with a link sent to your own address. There is no password to remember.
Ready To See What Scout Finds?
Give us one domain you already look after. The first report usually finds something nobody had noticed, and that is the conversation this is for.
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