Church Website Audit by Journey Digital
A free church website audit tool (an MCP server and Cursor plugin) that checks mobile, page speed, SEO basics, and whether a first-time visitor can find service times.
Real output of audit_church_website for a public church homepage, run 2026-10-21. Finding text is shortened in the image; the full JSON is in docs/example-audit-redeemer.json.
Install
One line, from a clean checkout (Node 18+, zero dependencies). It clones the repo and runs the local self-test:
git clone https://github.com/tnvolman/jd-church-website-audit && cd jd-church-website-audit && node scripts/prove.js
Then point your MCP client at server/audit-mcp.js (see Usage). In Cursor, the repo also loads as a plugin through .cursor-plugin/plugin.json.
Prefer not to install anything? Run the same church website checker in your browser at journeydigital.ai/audit.
What it checks
One MCP tool, audit_church_website, sends one church homepage to Journey Digital's audit and returns every check:
- Mobile: viewport tag, pinch-to-zoom, text size.
- Speed: Google PageSpeed mobile performance.
- SEO basics: title, meta description, H1, https, canonical link, robots.txt, sitemap.
- First-time guests: service times, street address, an I'm New / Plan a Visit path, map or directions.
- Contact and giving: tap-to-call, contact info, giving one click away.
- About and local identity: beliefs or about link, city in the title or main heading.
- Heads-up notes (never counted as a fail): menu size and menu labels.
Report the result as passed/total exactly as the API returns passed and total. Do not hardcode /21 and do not recompute the counts. Each check comes with a plain-English finding and a cited source for each check. It covers church website SEO basics only and does not guarantee any search ranking. Things like first-screen placement and how easy the phone menu feels still need a human look.
Usage
MCP client config (Claude Desktop, Cursor mcp.json, and similar):
{
"mcpServers": {
"church-website-audit": {
"command": "node",
"args": ["/absolute/path/to/jd-church-website-audit/server/audit-mcp.js"]
}
}
}
Then ask your agent: "Audit https://example-church.org with audit_church_website."
Tool arguments:
Set JOURNEY_DIGITAL_AUDIT_BASE_URL to use another origin (default https://journeydigital.ai). There is no API key. If the audit service is unreachable or returns a malformed report, the tool returns an error; it never invents results.
Docker
The image speaks MCP over stdio. It is node:22-alpine, installs nothing, and runs as the node user:
docker build -t jd-church-website-audit .
docker run -i --rm jd-church-website-audit
Point the MCP client at that command. JOURNEY_DIGITAL_AUDIT_BASE_URL still overrides the origin.
Privacy
The church website address you submit is sent to journeydigital.ai, which fetches that page, and to Google PageSpeed for the speed check. Plugin audits store anonymous counts only. See the privacy policy, terms and PRIVACY.md.
What is in this repo
About
Built and published by Michael McClanahan at Journey Digital, a small church website design studio in Wilson, NC. Questions: [email protected]. Not endorsed by Cursor or Grok Bot.
Contributing
Issues and pull requests are welcome. Keep the server zero-dependency, run node scripts/prove.js before opening a PR, and never hardcode or recompute scores: the tool passes the API's passed and total through unchanged. Notable changes go in CHANGELOG.md.
License
MIT. Copyright 2026 Michael McClanahan.