18 October 2026. What hypertune.gg gets right and wrong for answer engines (ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Claude search, Google AI Overviews). Compared with the 1 October audit.
How this was checked. Live HTML was fetched with Python on 18 October 2026: the homepage, sitemap, robots.txt, pricing, technology, expert tuning, guides, and the URLs that used to be safety and game pages. Bot access is a spoofed user-agent probe of the homepage, not a Cloudflare dashboard export. The help centre and the "best FPS booster" lists were checked through web search, because Freshdesk now redirects to a login and the list sites were not all fetched in full. Live answers in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Mode were not run.
Answer crawlers can read the site, and the price on the homepage, the pricing page and the homepage schema now agree: $9.99 a month or $69.99 a year, with a 7-day money-back guarantee. That is the main improvement since 1 October.
Engines can still describe Hypertune wrongly. The homepage also says "try for free for 7 days" and "up to 60%" gains. Expert tuning says a Battlefield 6 average boost of 18-140 FPS. A search index still holds an old help article at $4.99 a month or $47.99 a year, even though that URL no longer serves the article. There is still no page whose job is to answer "best FPS booster", "is Hypertune safe", "Hypertune vs Hone", or a single game, and the roundups engines cite for those questions do not name Hypertune.
| Check | Evidence, 18 October 2026 |
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| Answer crawlers can read the homepage | HTTP 200 for Googlebot, bingbot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot and Google-Extended. ChatGPT search, Perplexity and Claude search are not blocked. |
| robots.txt matches the public site | Allow: / for all agents, with Disallow: /client-portal only. Sitemap is declared. |
| Clean host | http://hypertune.gg/ and https://www.hypertune.gg/pricing return 301 to the https apex URL. |
| Facts are in the HTML | Price, the 60% line, the anti-cheat line and the technology FAQ are in the server HTML. An engine does not need JavaScript to see them. |
| One public price, in schema | Homepage and /pricing both show $119.88 struck through, $69.99/year and $9.99/month. Homepage JSON-LD is Organization plus SoftwareApplication, with Offer prices 9.99 USD per month and 69.99 USD per year, linking to /pricing. |
| Pricing page exists | /pricing is 200, indexable, canonical to itself, and in the sitemap with lastmod 2026-10-13. On 1 October this URL was missing. |
| Buyer questions have a direct answer on the technology page | The HTML FAQ states that Hypertune is a subscription, that the refund is a full refund within 7 days of the first payment, that it does not edit game files and is described as anti-cheat safe, what it changes, and how to uninstall. FAQPage schema is present. |
| Organization is named | Schema legal name is COMPREADY Inc., with a logo and sameAs links for X, YouTube, Discord, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok and Threads. |
| Affiliate parameters do not publish a second price | /?am_id=ultraviolet and /?am_id=valorant return the current homepage and canonical to https://hypertune.gg. The old $3.99 copy is not on those URLs now. |
| The old help article is no longer public | The Freshdesk article that said $4.99/month or $47.99/year returns 302 to the help home, and the help home returns 302 to a login. A browser cannot read that page today. |
| Check | Why it matters for answers | Evidence |
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| Performance claims still disagree | An engine can quote any number it finds. | Homepage: "Users see up to 60% gains", plus a 130 FPS off / 210 FPS on graphic, plus a quote of "400+ FPS". /expert-tuning: "BATTLEFIELD 6 Average boost 18-140 FPS" and a separate "673 FPS" line. No method page says which figure is the claim. |
| "Free for 7 days" and "money-back" are both on the site | Those are different offers. One is a trial before billing. The other is a refund after payment. | Homepage close: "Try Hypertune for free for 7 days". Pricing card and the technology FAQ: "7 day money-back guarantee" and "request a full refund within 7 days of your first payment". |
| The 42% discount sits next to a 60% performance claim | A model can merge the two 42s, which is what the 1 October audit warned about. The help centre's "up to 42% FPS" line is no longer public, but the badge remains. | Pricing block: "SAVE 42 %" immediately above $69.99/year. |
| Safety and uninstall URLs no longer answer under their own address | Anyone who linked the old URLs, and any engine that stored them, now lands on a page titled "Five features behind one click." | /what-hypertune-changes and /uninstall return 301 to /technology. The answers exist lower on that page. There is no /is-hypertune-safe page. That URL returns 500 and noindex. |
| Retired game URLs go to the homepage | A redirect of many old URLs to the homepage is a soft 404. It does not answer "Hypertune for Valorant". | /game/valorant and /game/rust return 301 to /. /rust and /fortnite return 500, noindex. |
| No page is built to be cited for the category | For "best FPS booster" the engines use roundups and rival pages. Hypertune has no comparison page and no benchmark method page. | /benchmark, /compare and /hypertune-vs-hone return 500, noindex. A web search on 18 October of six "best FPS booster / game booster" lists (Techlasi, BetterFPS, TechBloat, TechYorker, OptiLag, Gitnux) did not name Hypertune. They name Razer Cortex, MSI Afterburner, Hone, Wise Game Booster and others. This is a search snapshot, not a full results-page check. |
| Old domain links all land on the homepage | A link to a specific compready.gg path no longer reaches the matching page. | https://compready.gg/expert-tuning and https://compready.gg/pricing both 301 to https://hypertune.gg/. On 1 October, compready.gg paths went to /expert-tuning. |
| The indexed help article can still be quoted | The live URL is gone, but a search index copy from 18 October still contains the old price and the line "AMD CPU support is coming soon", plus $3.99 billed annually on an old variant. | Search result for the Freshdesk article "Common Questions and Concerns Prior To Purchasing". Direct fetch did not return that body. Treat the old price as cached, not as a page we could open. |
| Press prices are older than the site | Category answers often cite press, not the pricing page. | Not re-fetched in full (TweakTown returned 403 to the script). Search highlights of the September articles: TweakTown, 10 September, $9.99 a month or $119.99 a year; TechPowerUp, 9 September, $9.99 a month or about $59.99 a year. |
| Training crawlers are blocked while robots.txt allows them | This does not stop today's ChatGPT, Perplexity or Claude search answers. It keeps the site out of data those companies use to train later models. The firewall and robots.txt still disagree. | GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot and Bytespider: 403, "Your request was blocked." robots.txt has no matching disallow. |
| Headings do not ask the buyer's question | The winning unit is a passage that answers one question near the top of a page about that question. | Homepage H1: "Boost your gaming performance with one click." Pricing H1: "The cheapest upgrade you'll ever buy." Technology H1: "Five features behind one click." |
/llms.txt errors | Low impact. Google says it does not use llms.txt for AI Overviews. A 500 is still the wrong response if an agent requests the file. | /llms.txt returns 500 with noindex. On 1 October it was a 404. |
| AI visibility is still unmeasured | Rankings do not show whether answers name Hypertune or quote the right price. | The 18-prompt set from the 1 October audit has not been run here. No Search Console AI report, Bing AI Performance, or GA4 referral counts were available for this check. |
| Source | What it says | How checked |
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| hypertune.gg homepage and /pricing | $69.99/year (shown against $119.88) and $9.99/month. "SAVE 42 %". "Cancel anytime. 7 day money-back guarantee". | Live HTML |
| Homepage schema | Monthly 9.99 USD, annual 69.99 USD. | Live JSON-LD |
| Homepage close | "Try Hypertune for free for 7 days". | Live HTML |
| Homepage body | "Users see up to 60% gains". | Live HTML |
| /technology FAQ | Subscription. Full refund within 7 days of the first payment. Does not modify game files. "100% anti-cheat safe". | Live HTML. FAQPage schema present. |
| /expert-tuning | "BATTLEFIELD 6 Average boost 18-140 FPS". | Live HTML |
| Freshdesk article, search index only | "$4.99/month or $47.99/year". Also a 7-day free trial and a 7-day refund, and "AMD CPU support is coming soon" on a cached variant. | Web search. Live URL redirects toward login. |
| September press, search highlights | TweakTown $119.99/year. TechPowerUp about $59.99/year. Both also say up to 60% FPS. | Search highlights, not a full re-read. |
Homepage only. A 403 that robots.txt does not explain is a firewall rule. Confirm in Cloudflare before changing policy.
| URL | Now | AEO reading |
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/ | 200, index. Title and H1 are slogans. Schema offers match the price. | Usable source for the price. Weak source for a category question. |
/pricing | 200, in the sitemap, lastmod 2026-10-13. No JSON-LD of its own. | Right page to cite for cost. The H1 does not state the price. |
/technology | 200. FAQ covers subscription, refund, bans, changes, uninstall. | Best answer page on the site. The title does not say so. |
/expert-tuning | 200. 18-140 FPS claim. | A second performance number, with no method beside it. |
/guides and five BIOS guides | 200, in the sitemap. | Setup help, not buyer questions. |
/what-hypertune-changes, /uninstall | 301 to /technology. Dropped from the sitemap. | Answers moved. Old addresses no longer stand alone. |
/game/valorant, /game/rust | 301 to /. | Does not answer the game question. |
/llms.txt, /faq, /blog, safety, benchmark and comparison guesses | 500, noindex. | Nothing for an engine to cite. The error page should be a 404, not a 500. |
Internal review page. Not the live Hypertune site. Source notes are in the ERN evidence folder for 18 October 2026.