Is there a free website audit for restaurants?

Why owners care

Diners find a restaurant on a phone, often after a local search or a tap from Google Maps. The Google Business Profile holds the hours, photos, and reviews. The website is the next page they open for the menu and a way to call.

A missing title or meta description makes that page a weak result. A page with no mobile viewport, or a hero of full-size photos, is the page people leave before they see what is open tonight.

You do not need a research suite at about $129 a month to learn that. The free scan checks one public URL in about 30 seconds. Deep Audit is $29, once, when you want a plan.

What to do about it

1. Paste the public homepage or menu URL into the free WebVitalist scan. No account and no card. It reads the page the site already published.
2. Read the title and meta description first. Those are the lines a search result can show, and you can edit them in Squarespace, Wix, or Shopify page settings.
3. Open the menu on a phone. A PDF-only menu and a full-size photo carousel are the usual reasons a diner gives up before they call.
4. Put hours, the neighborhood, and a real phone number in text, not only inside a photo. The scan cannot read words trapped in an image.
5. If the scan shows real issues, buy Audit once at $9 for a shorter report, or Deep Audit at $29 for more pages and a plan. That is one payment, not a seat at about $129 a month.
6. Add Fix Pack at $149 only when you want platform-specific code for Squarespace, Wix, or Shopify. It is an upsell after the audit, not the price you start at.

What WebVitalist checks

The free scan runs 19 technical checks on one public URL. These are the ones that matter for this question:

• Page title (title): The free scan fails a restaurant page with no title, and warns when the title is shorter than 30 or longer than 65 characters.
• Meta description (meta-description): The free scan fails a page with no meta description, and warns when it is shorter than 70 or longer than 165 characters.
• Mobile viewport (viewport): The free scan fails a page whose viewport meta tag is missing, because without it a phone renders the desktop layout.

A paid audit ($9 and up) also runs a real mobile Lighthouse test through Google PageSpeed Insights and reads field data for LCP, INP and CLS, where Google has it.

How this differs from PageSpeed Insights

A restaurant PageSpeed score can be poor because of the photo hero. The score still does not say the menu title is missing, or that the page has no mobile viewport.

The free scan reads the public HTML in about 30 seconds and names the title, meta description, and mobile viewport issues. A paid audit adds a mobile Lighthouse run and a prioritized plan. Use PageSpeed when you want the score. Use the audit when you want the next step.

Questions

Does this check my restaurant's Google Business Profile?

No. The scan reads your public website only. Hours, photos, and reviews on the Google Business Profile stay in Google. The site still needs a clear title and a page that works on a phone when someone taps through from Maps or local search.

How is a restaurant audit different from PageSpeed Insights?

PageSpeed Insights is a score. It does not say which Squarespace, Wix, or Shopify field to edit, and it does not flag a missing title or meta description. The free scan reads the published HTML. Deep Audit adds mobile Lighthouse and a prioritized plan.

How much does a restaurant website audit cost?

The scan is free. Audit is $9 once for a shorter report. Deep Audit is $29 once and is the usual next step. Fix Pack is $149 when you want the platform-specific code written out. A suite at about $129 a month is for ongoing research, not one checkup.

Will the scan change my restaurant site?

No. The free scan only reads a public URL. A paid report lists what to change. You still edit the site, or you buy Fix Pack when you want the Squarespace, Wix, or Shopify steps written out.