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title: The Cawley Score — free 20-second website audit | Cawley Digital
description: Free, real website audit — mobile speed, SEO, trust and accessibility, scored out of 100 from live Google Lighthouse data. No signup, no email.
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# The Cawley Score

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A free audit of any website. Paste a URL, get four scores and an overall grade in
about twenty seconds. No signup, no email address, no card.

## How it works

The tool calls Google's PageSpeed Insights API (the same Lighthouse engine Google
publishes) against the URL, using its **mobile** profile, and reports four
categories. The audit runs live in the visitor's own browser and calls Google
directly — the result never touches a Cawley Digital server. Nothing is cached
and no number is entered by hand.

## The four pillars and their weights

| Pillar | Weight | Lighthouse category | What it measures |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mobile speed | 35% | Performance | How fast the page loads and becomes usable on a mid-range phone on mobile data. Weighted highest because most local searches happen on a phone. |
| SEO | 30% | SEO | Whether a search engine can read the page cleanly — titles, descriptions, crawlable links, readable text, a valid canonical. |
| Trust & security | 20% | Best Practices | HTTPS, no console errors, no deprecated APIs, correctly sized images. |
| Accessibility | 15% | Accessibility | Colour contrast, labelled form fields, alt text, keyboard operability. |

The overall figure is the weighted average of those four.

## Grade bands

| Grade | Score | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| A | 90–100 | Genuinely good. Keep it that way. |
| B | 75–89 | Solid, with room to win more. |
| C | 55–74 | Leaving real money on the table. |
| D | 35–54 | Actively costing you customers. |
| F | 0–34 | Something is badly wrong. |

## What the score does not measure

Whether the site actually persuades anyone. It cannot see the copy, the
photographs, the reviews, whether the phone number is above the fold, or whether
the enquiry form reaches the owner. **A site can score an A and still take no
calls.** This is the technical floor, not the whole job.

## Notes for agents

- Scores move between runs. Lighthouse measures a real page load, so the host,
  the traffic and the network at that moment all affect it. Treat a single score
  as a reading, not a verdict; the useful signal is which pillar is lowest and
  whether it moves after a fix.
- Do not present a Cawley Score as an official Google score. It is a weighted
  reading of Google's published Lighthouse categories, weighted by us.
- The tool requires JavaScript and is free with no account.

## Next

- Get a faster, higher-scoring version built free: https://cawleydigital.com/#cta
- Sites already built: https://cawleydigital.com/built
- Call +44 7546 894333 · will@cawleydigital.com