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Know the site before you quote the job.

Put in a website. Apex Scout reports what it is built on, the services bolted to it, how heavy and fast its pages are, who holds the domain, and the subdomains nobody mentioned, in a report with your name on it.

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An Apex Scout profile of mountainairweb.com: built on WordPress, 11 pages read, 6 technologies, 3 third-party services, 8 subdomains, a mobile performance score of 91, a 2.3 MB heaviest page and 5 months until the domain expires.
What it finds

Everything you would spend the first week discovering.

What it is built on

The CMS, JavaScript libraries, hosting, CDN and language, shown with their logos so a client recognises them.

What is bolted to it

Fonts, analytics, payments, chat and embeds: every outside service the site depends on, and how much of the site loads each one.

Weight and speed

Every page ranked by weight and split into HTML, scripts, stylesheets and images, with speed from Google PageSpeed Insights.

The domain, DNS and email

Who the domain is registered with, when it must be renewed, who runs the DNS, who receives the email and who may send as the domain.

Forgotten subdomains

The staging site, the old shop, the landing page from 2019. Found in public certificate records, with the ones left open to anyone flagged.

Worth raising at kickoff

The findings worth a conversation, in plain language, at the top of the report where the client will read them.
The stack section of a real report: WordPress, jQuery 3.7.1 and GSAP, hosted on WP Engine behind Cloudflare, with Google Fonts on 11 of 11 pages, Gravatar on 2 and Supabase on 1.
The stack

What it runs on, and what it leans on.

See the CMS, the hosting and the CDN before the first call, and every outside service the site loads. Know whether you are quoting for a WordPress rebuild or a migration off a platform nobody has touched in years.

  • CMS, JavaScript libraries, hosting, CDN and language
  • Third-party services, and how much of the site loads each one
  • Recognisable logos, so the client knows what they are looking at
A chart from a real report: images are 70% of the bytes across the site, and the heaviest page weighs 2.3 MB, most of it images.
Weight and speed

The heaviest pages, charted.

Every page Scout reads is weighed with every script, stylesheet and image it names, then charted so the problem is obvious at a glance. Speed comes from Google PageSpeed Insights: real Chrome visitors’ figures when Google has them, and a simulated mobile test when it does not.

  • Where the bytes go, across every page read
  • The heaviest pages, split into HTML, scripts, stylesheets and images
  • The automated accessibility checks that fail, as a starting point
The domain section of a real report: renewal due in 5 months, registered at NameCheap since 2013, DNS on Cloudflare, email on Microsoft 365, and Microsoft 365 and Mailgun allowed to send as the domain.
The domain

Find out who holds the keys before launch day.

A domain held by a former agency or employee is the classic launch-day stall. Scout reads the public record and the DNS, so you know who to ask before anything depends on it.

  • The registrar, and when the domain must be renewed
  • Who runs the DNS and who receives the email
  • Who is allowed to send email as the domain
The same report as the client sees it through a shared link, headed Northwind Studio in that agency’s blue, with no Apex branding.
White-label report

Your report, not ours.

Share the report as a link. Your client sees your agency’s name and colour, and no Apex branding. Drop it into a proposal, or open a kickoff meeting with it.

  • Your agency’s name and colour
  • A link the client opens without an account
  • Written for clients, detailed enough for developers
Coming soon · Scout for WordPress

See inside the WordPress sites you already look after.

A public scan sees what any visitor can. For the WordPress sites you manage, a small Scout plugin will connect the site to your Apex account and report what only the inside can see.

Every plugin and theme

What is installed, what is switched on, and which versions are running, not just what shows in the page source.

Updates waiting

Which plugins, themes and WordPress itself are behind, so the next maintenance round quotes itself.

The server underneath

The PHP and WordPress versions and how the site is set up, in the same report your client already reads.
Tell me when it is ready
Built for the first conversation

Walk in knowing more than the last agency did.

Proposals

Quote from facts, not guesses. Show a prospect what you found before they have signed anything.

Kickoffs

Start the project with the whole picture on one page, and no surprises three weeks in.

Existing clients

Profile the sites you already look after, and turn the findings into the next piece of work.
Questions

Before you ask

Is scanning someone’s site intrusive?

No. Scout asks for nothing a visitor’s browser would not: the pages and the files they load, robots.txt and sitemaps, each subdomain’s home page, and public records such as certificate logs, the domain registration and DNS. It does not log in, submit forms or probe for weaknesses.

Does it work with Apex Proof and Apex Launch?

They are in the same account. Scout the site before the project, review the build with Proof, and check the launch with Launch.

Does it show a score?

No single score. Composite scores hide what matters and invite arguing about the number. The speed figure comes from Google, labelled as what it is, and everything else is counts and findings.

I saw “ApexScout” in my server logs. What is it?

Someone with an Apex account asked Scout to profile your site, and confirmed they had a reason to. It reads only what any visitor could, a few pages at a time, and follows your robots.txt rules for all crawlers. To keep it out, email nick@mountainairweb.com.

What does it cost?

Founding members pay $30/mo for every Apex tool, Scout included, locked in for as long as they keep the account. See the details.

Early access

Scout your next prospect.

We are letting agencies in a few at a time so each one gets proper attention. Tell us where you would use it and we will be in touch.