What WideAngle is, and why it exists
WideAngle is a site auditing tool that scores SEO and Generative Engine Optimization across 126 rules. It is built and maintained by Abdullatif, and it exists because classic SEO tools cannot tell you whether an AI answer engine will quote your site — which is now how a growing share of readers reach it.
The problem it solves
Classic SEO decides whether Google ranks a page. It says nothing about whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Google AI Overviews can parse that page, resolve the brand behind it to a real entity, or find a passage worth quoting. Those are different questions, and almost every audit tool on the market was designed before anyone needed to ask them.
WideAngle scores both jobs side by side. The SEO pillar covers 82 rules across meta and social tags, content structure, the crawl graph, images, structured data, technical health, internationalisation and performance. The GEO pillar covers 44 rules across AI crawler access, machine extractability, answer readiness, citation authority and entity clarity.
How it works
WideAngle crawls a site over HTTP and, where a repository is available, reads the framework's routes, metadata exports and configuration. That is what lets a finding point at a file and a line rather than only a URL. Each finding carries the reason it matters and the change that resolves it, and the fixes that can be applied safely can be applied automatically.
Every report is a single self-contained HTML file with no external requests, so it can be sent to a client or a stakeholder without a dashboard login.
Language and script coverage
WideAngle is built to be correct on right-to-left and non-Latin content. Testing the engine against a live Arabic site surfaced a readability score being computed with English syllable heuristics on Arabic text — a confident, meaningless number. That class of bug is common in tools that were never tested outside Latin script, and correctness here is treated as a first-order requirement rather than a localisation afterthought.
Licence and openness
The command-line auditor is free and Apache-2.0 licensed. The hosted platform — scheduled crawls, score history, deploy alerts and pull-request fixes — is a paid product in early access. The rule catalogue stays public either way, because a rule you cannot read is a rule you cannot trust.