YouTube Video Audit
Paste any YouTube URL — get a free instant audit of title, description, tags, hashtags, and chapters with fix-it tools for every weakness.
Paste any YouTube URL — get a free instant audit of title, description, tags, hashtags, and chapters with fix-it tools for every weakness.
Most YouTube SEO tools focus on a single field — generate a title, extract tags, write a description. The Video Audit goes the other way: paste an existing video and see every metadata field scored against documented best practices in one pass, with a one-click path to the right tool for each weakness.
Use it before publishing a new video (paste the YouTube URL after upload, fix the weak dimensions, then re-run), or on competitors' videos to see what they're doing well that you can borrow.
| Dimension | Weight | Fix-it tool |
|---|---|---|
| Title (length, angle, clickbait) | 30% | AI Title Generator |
| Description (length, hook, CTA) | 25% | AI Description Generator |
| Chapters (count, 0:00, ordering) | 20% | Chapter Generator |
| Tags (count, long-tail ratio) | 15% | AI Tag Generator |
| Hashtags (count, position) | 10% | AI Hashtag Generator |
Five dimensions: title (length, structure, angle, clickbait risk), description (length, above-the-fold hook, CTA, links), tags (count, long-tail ratio, char budget), hashtags (count, position), and chapters (count, 0:00 start, minimum 10s segments, ordering). Each dimension gets a 0-100 score and a list of specific signals — what's working and what to fix.
Weighted average across the five dimensions: title 30%, description 25%, chapters 20%, tags 15%, hashtags 10%. Title and description carry the most weight because they have the highest measurable CTR and retention impact. Hashtags weigh less because YouTube only renders the first three above the title.
No — only public videos. The auditor fetches the same /watch page a logged-out user would see, so anything that requires authentication is invisible to it.
Thumbnail quality is the single biggest CTR factor but it's not measurable from heuristics alone — it's a design judgment. The audit confirms a thumbnail is present and gives you the URL to download it for review; for actual evaluation, A/B-test in YouTube Studio or use a peer review.
Views/likes/comments are outcomes, not levers. The audit scores the input variables you control before publishing — title, description, tags, hashtags, chapters. Optimising those is what changes the outcomes.
No. The auditor scrapes the public /watch page HTML — the same approach our tag extractor uses. That means no quota limits and no API key required, but also that we depend on YouTube not changing their page structure.
Audit results are cached by video ID for 12 hours so a re-run returns instantly. We do not log which URLs were audited by which user — IPs are only held in memory paired with the day to enforce the 30/day fair-use limit.
The Video Audit chains into every single-purpose tool. Start here, then fix.