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Ads Grader - Free Google Ads Performance Audit

Connect your Google Ads account and get an overall grade, wasted-spend estimate, and a prioritized list of fixes - in under sixty seconds.

Free, no credit card. We'll email you only when this tool is live.

What you'll get

  • Audits your Google Ads account across structure, targeting, creatives, bidding, and conversion tracking.
  • Estimates how much of your monthly spend is wasted on low-quality clicks.
  • Highlights the campaigns and ad groups dragging your account average down.
  • Flags missing negative keywords, broken conversion tags, and weak ad copy.
  • Outputs a prioritized fix list ordered by potential ROI impact.

How it works

  1. Connect your Google Ads account read-only via OAuth.
  2. We run sixty-plus checks across account structure, targeting, creative, bidding, and tracking.
  3. You get an overall grade, a wasted-spend estimate, and a prioritized fix list you can ship this week.

Why use a ads grader - free google ads performance audit?

Most Google Ads accounts hide a meaningful amount of wasted spend. The waste is rarely in one place - it shows up in too-broad match types, missing negative keyword lists, broken conversion tags, single-ad ad groups, ignored search-term reports, and bid strategies misaligned with the actual goal. None of these are catastrophic individually, but together they routinely drag account efficiency down by twenty to forty percent. The challenge is that finding them takes hours of manual auditing, and most teams cannot afford that time on a recurring basis.

An ads grader compresses that audit into seconds. By scanning every campaign, ad group, ad, and keyword via the Google Ads API, the tool surfaces the structural and creative issues an experienced PPC manager would catch in a manual review. The score is useful as a quick north-star metric for the account's health, but the real value is in the fix list. Most accounts, after acting on the top-five recommendations, see meaningful CPA reduction within thirty days. Use the audit before launching new campaigns, before scaling spend, after onboarding a new client, and on a quarterly cadence for any account spending more than a few thousand dollars a month. The output is also useful as a sales tool for agencies and as a sanity check for marketing teams that want a second opinion on agency-managed accounts.

Best practices

  • Run the audit before scaling spend on any account.
  • Start with the top-five fixes - they typically deliver eighty percent of the recoverable spend.
  • Re-audit quarterly to catch regressions as campaigns evolve.
  • Pair with a conversion-tracking sanity check before trusting the ROAS numbers.
  • Use the wasted-spend estimate as a board-friendly headline for the audit's value.

FAQ

Is the Ads Grader free?

Yes. The audit and grade are free with no credit card. Paid plans add scheduled audits and team sharing.

Will it change my Google Ads account?

No. The connection is read-only. Nothing in your account is modified.

What does the grade measure?

Account structure, targeting precision, ad creative quality, bidding alignment, conversion tracking health, and overall wasted spend.

How long does the audit take?

Most accounts complete in under sixty seconds. Larger MCC accounts can take a few minutes.

Can I audit a client's account?

Yes. Agencies can connect via MCC access and audit each client account individually.

Does it work for Performance Max campaigns?

Yes - we cover Search, Display, Performance Max, Shopping, and Video campaigns.

Is my data private?

Yes. Account data is processed in memory for the audit and not retained.

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