Website QA / ChatGPT
Give ChatGPT a way to inspect your actual website. Afterward checks public pages for broken links, missing metadata, configuration issues, and other launch-readiness problems, then returns structured findings your assistant can help you understand.
scan_website with a public URL. Afterward inspects the pages and returns findings with evidence. Illustration.01 / How it works
01 / Connect
In ChatGPT, open Plugins and look for Afterward. If it isn’t listed for your account, you can add its public server instead. Our connection guide covers both.
02 / Scan
Give it a public URL and ask for a pre-launch audit. Type @ and choose Afterward to make sure it’s used.
03 / Review
Afterward inspects the site and returns a launch-readiness score and findings with evidence. ChatGPT helps you understand them and decide what to fix first.
Example prompt
Use Afterward to check https://example.com before I launch it. Identify technical problems and tell me what I should fix first.
Who does what: Afterward performs the website checks, the same way every time. ChatGPT helps you interpret the results. ChatGPT doesn’t scan your site itself.
02 / What Afterward checks
Afterward runs 50+ deterministic checks against your site’s real responses. Each finding has a stable check ID and the evidence behind it.
Reachability, HTTPS, redirect chains, response status codes, the mobile viewport and HTML basics.
technical.https · technical.redirect-chainPage titles, meta descriptions, canonical URLs, noindex directives, Open Graph tags, robots.txt and the XML sitemap.
seo.canonical-present · discovery.sitemapCommon hardening headers, including HSTS and Content-Security-Policy, plus mixed content and cookie attributes.
security.hsts · security.cspBroken internal links, a sample of external links, development URLs, placeholder text and malformed form actions.
links.broken-internal · content.placeholder-textMissing image alt text, links without accessible names, unlabeled form fields and the declared page language.
images.alt-text · forms.field-labelsCommon analytics tags in the returned HTML, retired Universal Analytics tags and uneven coverage across pages.
analytics.detected03 / An example result
links.broken-internalIllustrative example, not a real scanhttps://example.com/pricingHTTP 40404 / What the scan doesn’t do
05 / Why connect Afterward
Asked to critique a website, ChatGPT works from what it’s shown and what it knows about good practice. With Afterward connected, it also gets what your server actually returned, checked the same way every time. Afterward doesn’t replace ChatGPT; it gives it concrete evidence for a specific job.
Status codes, redirects, headers and the HTML your server returned, not a description of them.
The same responses always produce the same findings and the same score.
Each result has a stable check ID, a severity and the affected URLs.
Findings include what Afterward observed, so you can verify them yourself.
The limits above are part of every result, not small print.
ChatGPT explains the findings and helps you decide what to fix first.
What Afterward does in ChatGPT, and what it deliberately doesn’t.
On its own, ChatGPT can review what you paste or describe and suggest general best practices. With Afterward connected, ChatGPT can ask Afterward to inspect a public website: Afterward fetches the pages, runs its checks and returns findings with evidence, and ChatGPT helps you understand them.
In ChatGPT, open Plugins and search for Afterward. If it’s listed for your account, install it. If it isn’t, you can add Afterward’s public server as a custom MCP server where your account allows it. Then start a new chat, type @, choose Afterward and ask it to check a public URL. Our connection guide has both routes step by step.
One-off audits are free and need no Afterward account. They’re rate limited, currently to 5 every 10 minutes. Ongoing monitoring is a paid plan: Pro is $19 a month and Agency is $79 a month.
No. Afterward fetches your public pages over the internet, as any visitor can. There’s nothing to install on your site and no code to share.
No. Afterward only checks public pages. It doesn’t sign in, so anything behind a login isn’t inspected.
No. Afterward checks common configuration and security-hardening issues, such as missing headers. It doesn’t probe for vulnerabilities and doesn’t guarantee that a site is secure.
Yes. Afterward works with Claude, Codex and other MCP-compatible assistants, using the same public server.
An audit is a one-off check of your site as it is now. Monitoring, on the Pro and Agency plans, saves a baseline, checks your site on a schedule, compares each scan with the last and emails you when something new breaks.
Connect Afterward to ChatGPT, provide a public URL, and get a clearer picture of what needs attention.