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SEOnaut StJudeWasHere/seonaut

Self-hosted SEO site auditor that crawls a website and reports broken links, redirects, meta tag and heading issues by severity.

SEOnaut at a glance

Checked 15 Oct 2026

SEOnaut is an MIT-licensed Go web app with a MySQL database that crawls a site and reports SEO issues (broken links, redirect loops, missing or duplicate meta tags, heading order and more) grouped as critical, high and low. Docker Compose is the recommended install; a hosted version runs at seonaut.org. No paid services. It does not do keyword research, rank tracking or backlinks. No GitHub releases; hardware needs are not documented.

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How much of Semrush does it replace?

1 of 5 jobs. Technical crawl audit only.

No: Keyword research Not covered
No: Rank tracking Not covered
No: Backlink analysis Not covered
Partial: Site audit Partial replacement
No: Competitor analysis Not covered

For keyword research, rank tracking, backlink analysis, competitor analysis, see other Semrush alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

How much of Ahrefs does it replace?

1 of 5 jobs. Technical crawl audit only.

No: Keyword research Not covered
No: Rank tracking Not covered
No: Backlink analysis Not covered
Partial: Site audit Partial replacement
No: Competitor analysis Not covered

For keyword research, rank tracking, backlink analysis, competitor analysis, see other Ahrefs alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

Facts, with sources

Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.

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QuestionAnswerSourceChecked
Runs on my machine? Confirmed: Self-hosted web app (Docker or compiled Go binary); hosted version also offered Using docker is the recommended way of running SEOnaut. github.com · seonaut#quick-start-guide ↗ 1d ago
Code licence Confirmed: MIT SEOnaut is open-source under the MIT license. github.com · LICENSE ↗ 1d ago
Model weights licence Confirmed: No model weights github.com · seonaut#readme ↗ 1d ago
Commercial use Confirmed: Yes, MIT code github.com · LICENSE ↗ 1d ago
Paid services needed? Confirmed: None required github.com · seonaut#readme ↗ 1d ago
Hardware Unknown: Not documented Know the answer? —
Operating systems Partial: Docker Compose (app plus MySQL); host operating systems not listed github.com · INSTALL.md ↗ 1d ago
Setup effort Confirmed: Medium, Docker Compose with a MySQL container As you need to provide a database, you can use `docker compose` to do so github.com · seonaut#using-docker-compose ↗ 1d ago

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