Roast My SEO

Overview

Roast My SEO is a free, public-facing tool that gives brutally honest AI-powered SEO feedback in 30 seconds. No signup required.

It's designed for virality: shareable results, public leaderboard, and entertaining roasts that people actually want to share on social media.

How it works

1. Visit growdeck.ai/roast
2. Enter any website URL
3. Wait 15-30 seconds while GPT-4o analyzes the site
4. Get a roast score (0-100) and brutally honest feedback
5. Share on X/Twitter or view the leaderboard

What gets analyzed

The roast engine checks:

• Meta tags: title, description, Open Graph
• Schema markup: presence and validity
• Content quality: depth, structure, readability
• Performance: page load speed, Core Web Vitals
• Internal linking: navigation structure
• Mobile optimization: responsive design
• Accessibility: alt text, ARIA labels

Severity levels

Roasts are categorized by severity:

• 🔥 Brutal: Critical issues causing major traffic loss
• ⚠️ Medium: Important issues to fix soon
• 💡 Mild: Nice-to-have improvements
• ✨ Tip: Advanced optimizations

Understanding your score

• 80-100: Elite — excellent SEO setup
• 60-79: Good — few issues, mostly optimized
• 40-59: Needs work — multiple important issues
• 0-39: Struggling — critical SEO problems

Traffic loss estimation

Each roast includes an "estimated traffic loss" — how much organic traffic you're potentially missing due to SEO issues.

This is calculated based on:

• Number and severity of issues
• Impact of each issue type (backed by industry research)
• Site size and content volume

Social sharing

After getting roasted, share your score on X/Twitter with one click:

• Pre-filled tweet with your score and rank
• Links back to the leaderboard
• Mentions @GrowDeck for attribution
• Encourages others to get roasted too (viral loop)

Public leaderboard

View all publicly roasted sites at growdeck.ai/leaderboard

Leaderboard features

• Global rankings: Top 100 sites by score
• Tier filtering: Elite / Good / Needs Work / Struggling
• Monthly winner: Site of the month with Crown icon
• Search: Find any roasted domain
• Share buttons: Share individual rankings
• Stats dashboard: Total sites roasted, avg score, top score

Medals & badges

• 🥇 Gold medal: Rank #1
• 🥈 Silver medal: Rank #2
• 🥉 Bronze medal: Rank #3
• ⭐ Top 10 badge: Ranks 1-10

Rate limiting

To prevent abuse, roasts are rate limited:

• 5 roasts per 10 minutes per IP address
• 24-hour cache per URL (same URL returns cached roast)

Privacy & public results

By default, roast results are public and appear on the leaderboard.

Privacy note: Don't roast sites with sensitive content or staging URLs you don't want public.

Technical details

• Engine: GPT-4o analyzes all issues
• Speed: Results in 15-30 seconds
• Cache: 24-hour Redis cache per URL
• Storage: Results stored in roast_records table
• Rate limit: 5 requests / 10 minutes per IP

Example roasts

Real examples of roast feedback:

"Your meta descriptions read like a robot wrote them during a power outage. 47% of your pages have no title tag. Even Bing is embarrassed for you."

"Not bad! But you're missing schema markup on all product pages. That's like showing up to a party and refusing to introduce yourself."

Using roasts for marketing

Roast My SEO is designed as a viral growth tool:

• Top of funnel: Brings awareness to GrowDeck
• Social proof: Leaderboard shows real results
• Shareability: Funny roasts get shared organically
• SEO benefit: Indexed pages with domain backlinks
• Conversion path: Roast → Learn about GrowDeck → Sign up