Audit any video, including the ones you do not own
Most YouTube tools install into your own Studio and work on your own channel. This one takes a video ID and audits it from outside, which is what a competitor teardown or a new client pitch actually needs.
Every number on this page came from a real run.
The example is James Hoffmann's channel, not ours. That is the point: nothing here needed permission, a login, or an extension installed in somebody's browser.
Any video ID, no access needed
Paste a video ID and get views, likes, comments, duration, subscriber count and views per hour, plus an itemised optimisation breakdown. It works on channels you have never touched, which is what makes it useful for pitching.
- Works from a video ID alone, no OAuth, no extension
- Engagement rate with the division printed underneath
- Tag list, description and title checks
- Same for a competitor's channel as for a client's
1.59% from 66.4K likes over 4.2M views, against bands of above 4% great, 2 to 4% average, below 2% low.
A reader can verify that in their head. A bare '1.59% — Low' cannot be checked at all.
23 results for one keyword
each one auditableWho ranks for a term, and how hard they are working
Search the YouTube results for any keyword and get the ranking videos with views, views per hour, an SEO score, publish age and duration side by side. Every row has an audit button.
- Position, views and views per hour together
- Views per hour separates a fast new video from an old one coasting
- Sortable, exportable to CSV
- Audit any row without leaving the list
Keywords, ranks, comments, transcripts
Keyword ideas, rank tracking, comment analysis and transcripts sit on the same project as your site audit and your AI visibility, so a client's video performance lands in the same report as everything else.
- Keyword ideas for video topics
- Rank tracking for tracked terms over time
- Comment and transcript analysis
- Exports into the same client report as the other five layers
- Video AuditAny video, by ID
- Video RankingsWho ranks for a term
- Keyword IdeasTopics worth making
- Rank TrackerPositions over time
- CommentsWhat the audience actually said
- TranscriptThe full text of any video
What this actually means
Engagement rate is likes divided by views, expressed as a percentage. It is a ratio, not a count, so it says nothing about how many people watched. A video with millions of views can score low and a small video can score high, and both readings are correct, because the measure is proportion rather than reach.
Reach and engagement rate are different measurements
The video above has 4.2 million views from a 2.5 million subscriber channel, and it scores low at 1.59%. That is not the tool being wrong. Views are a level; engagement rate is a proportion. Reading one as the other is the most common mistake made with this number.
The arithmetic is printed, so you can check it
66.4K likes ÷ 4.2M views × 100 sits under the figure. You do not have to trust the percentage, and you do not have to guess whether comments were included. Most tools show you a number and a colour and leave you to assume.
A score is made of parts, and the parts are shown
Tags, description length and engagement ratio each carry their own weight and their own result. A single headline number hides which one is dragging, and the one that is dragging is the only one you can act on.
One of six layers
They share one project, one subscription and one set of credits. See what Dorqa replaces.
Before you start
No. The audit takes a video ID and reads what YouTube already publishes. There is no sign-in, no OAuth and no browser extension, which is why it works on a competitor's channel as easily as your own.
No, and we would rather say so. If you run a YouTube channel, a dedicated creator tool that installs into your Studio will do far more for you and costs less. This exists so an agency can audit a client's channel alongside their site, their local presence and their AI visibility, in one report.
Because engagement rate is likes divided by views. It measures proportion, not reach. A very large audience makes the denominator large, so a low percentage on a huge video is normal and is not a fault in the video or in the measurement.
Likes over views, times one hundred. Comments are reported separately and are not folded in. The division is printed under the figure so there is nothing to assume.
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