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Sameer Hassan
Sameer Hassan

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I built a free, open-source alternative to Ahrefs & Hotjar powered by Claude-SEO & LLM Citations

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Most SEO and conversion optimization tools on the market are either:

  1. Overwhelming metadata spreadsheets (Ahrefs, Screaming Frog) costing $99–$499/month.
  2. Passive analytics dashboards (Google Analytics, Hotjar) that tell you that visitors bounce, but never tell you why or give you the code to fix it.
  3. Completely blind to the new AI search landscape (ChatGPT Search, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini, Claude).

I wanted an autonomous thinking partner that doesn't just list warnings—it actually inspects the rendered page, draws visual bounding boxes around UX friction, writes the drop-in React/Tailwind code fixes, and benchmarks how LLMs cite my website.

So I built and open-sourced Plyxo Community Edition — 100% free, self-hosted, and unlimited.

⭐ GitHub Repo: https://github.com/pixelfogg/Plyxo-CRO-SEO-AIO-AEO-GEO

⚡ What makes Plyxo different?

Claude-SEO Autonomous Audit

1. 🎯 Visual CRO Bounding Box Friction Detection

Instead of giving you vague advice like "improve button visibility", Plyxo takes a high-res screenshot of your page, calculates normalized bounding box coordinates over friction hotspots, computes the expected monthly revenue lift, and outputs copy-paste Tailwind CSS & React remediation code.

CRO Visual Bounding Box

2. 🧠 Complete Claude-SEO Skills Integration

Inspired by the popular AgriciDaniel/claude-seo skill architecture, Plyxo natively runs 6 parallel specialist agents on every crawl:

  • ⚙️ Technical SEO & Performance: Evaluates robots.txt, sitemaps, canonicals, and real Google PageSpeed Insights Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP, TTFB).
  • 🛡️ Resilient WAF Bypass: Multi-tier fallback crawler that simulates authentic browser headers so Cloudflare or anti-bot firewalls never return 403 Forbidden on your audits.
  • 📐 Schema.org & JSON-LD Validation: Deep syntax checks for Article, Product/Offer, FAQPage, BreadcrumbList, and Organization.
  • 📝 E-E-A-T & Readability: Evaluates author attribution, citation density, thin-content thresholds, and sequential H1–H6 outline structure.
  • 🔑 Semantic Keyword Intent: Categorizes query clusters by intent (Informational, Navigational, Commercial, Transactional) and detects keyword cannibalization.

3. 🤖 AEO / GEO: Will ChatGPT & Perplexity Cite You?

Search is changing fast. Users don't just click blue links; they ask LLMs.

Plyxo scores how readily ChatGPT Search, Perplexity AI, Google Gemini, and Anthropic Claude will extract your content as an authoritative cited source, measuring knowledge graph entity density and direct-answer formatting.

AEO Citation Scoring

4. ⚔️ Side-by-Side Competitor Battlecards

Enter any competitor domain to get an automated side-by-side gap analysis comparing site speed, schema coverage, topical authority, and high-intent search gaps.

Competitor Battlecard

5. 🔗 SSRF-Protected Fast Dead Link Crawler

Sweeps hundreds of internal and external URLs at ~390 requests/second to catch broken 404s, redirect chains, and SSL errors before they hurt your rankings.

Dead Link Crawler

🛠️ Tech Stack

  • Framework: Next.js 16 (Turbopack, App Router, React 19 Server Actions)
  • Language: TypeScript 5.0 (Strict mode)
  • Database & ORM: PostgreSQL + Drizzle ORM
  • AI Engine: Google Gemini 2.0 Flash / Pro (with automatic multi-key failover)
  • Styling: Tailwind CSS v4, Radix UI Primitives, Lucide Icons

🚀 Quick Start (Runs in 60 Seconds)

1. Clone the repository & install dependencies 

git clone https://github.com/pixelfogg/Plyxo-CRO-SEO-AIO-AEO-GEO.git
cd Plyxo-CRO-SEO-AIO-AEO-GEO
npm install
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2. Add your environment variables 

cp .env.example .env.local
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3. Add your free Google Gemini API Key from Google AI Studio 

DATABASE_URL=postgresql://postgres:postgres@127.0.0.1:5432/plyxo_community
GEMINI_API_KEYS=your_free_gemini_key_here
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4. Initialize the database & run 

npm run setup:community
npm run dev
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Open http://localhost:3000 — you get immediate, unrestricted access to the entire platform!

🤝 Let's build together!

Plyxo Community Edition is 100% MIT Licensed, privacy-first, and self-hosted on your own PostgreSQL instance. Zero tracking, zero telemetry paywalls.

If you find this project helpful or want to test it on your own websites:

👉 Star the repo on GitHub: https://github.com/pixelfogg/Plyxo-CRO-SEO-AIO-AEO-GEO

I'd love to hear your feedback, bug reports, or feature requests in the comments below! What are you using for SEO & CRO audits today?

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