Fauna is a globally distributed serverless document-relational database — but as a data persistence layer it has no WCAG accessibility audit, no Core Web Vitals scoring, and no post-deployment front-end quality monitoring. PageGuard audits any Fauna-backed website externally — free, no database access needed, results in 30 seconds.
ADA Title II Deadline: April 24, 2026
State and local government websites must meet WCAG 2.1 AA by April 24, 2026. Government agencies, nonprofits, and educational institutions building public-facing web applications on Fauna face this compliance deadline. Fauna data updates can trigger frontend re-renders that introduce accessibility regressions in the rendered HTML — but Fauna has no mechanism to detect WCAG violations in the output served to users. PageGuard monitors the live production URL continuously without requiring Fauna database access.
| Feature | PageGuard | Fauna |
|---|---|---|
| What is it? | External website health monitor — scans any deployed URL for performance, accessibility, SEO, and best practices | Fauna is a serverless document-relational database founded in 2018 that provides globally distributed, multi-tenant, ACID-compliant data storage through a flexible API; designed for JAMstack, serverless, and cloud-native applications; Fauna stores documents in collections with relations, supports real-time data subscriptions, and uses its own query language (FQL) alongside a GraphQL API; accessed entirely through API endpoints — there is no server to manage, no connection pooling required, and no database infrastructure to provision; popular with Next.js, Remix, Gatsby, and SvelteKit applications that need a scalable backend database without managing PostgreSQL or MySQL clusters; Fauna provides read/write compute units (RCU/WCU), streaming, multi-tenancy, and built-in authentication via Fauna tokens; used by startups, e-commerce platforms, and content-heavy applications requiring globally low-latency data access |
| Free tier | Yes — unlimited one-off scans, no signup required | Yes — Fauna offers a free tier with 100K read compute units, 50K write compute units, and 500MB storage per month; free tier is production-ready with full API access, GraphQL support, and FQL queries; no built-in WCAG accessibility auditing or Core Web Vitals measurement for the websites that consume Fauna data at any tier |
| Accessibility audit (WCAG / ADA) | ✓ Yes — WCAG 2.1 AA scored 0–100 with specific issue list | No — Fauna is a serverless database service with no built-in WCAG or ADA accessibility auditing capability; Fauna stores and retrieves data through API calls but has no mechanism to analyze the HTML output rendered by the frontend applications consuming Fauna data; accessibility quality of a Fauna-backed website depends entirely on the frontend layer (React, Vue, Svelte, etc.) and the server-side rendering logic, not on the database layer; Fauna has no WCAG scoring engine, no color contrast analysis, no ARIA validation, and no accessibility issue detection |
| Technical SEO audit | ✓ Yes — meta tags, headings, canonical, structured data | No — Fauna provides no SEO audit scores, meta tag validation, heading hierarchy analysis, canonical URL checking, or structured data verification; Fauna is a data persistence layer — it stores and serves structured data via API, but the SEO quality of the website consuming that data depends on how the frontend application renders HTML; developers using Fauna in Next.js or Gatsby applications must use separate SEO audit tools to verify the rendered HTML output served to users |
| Performance audit (Core Web Vitals) | ✓ Yes — LCP, CLS, FCP scored 0–100 per scan | No — Fauna provides no Core Web Vitals measurement (LCP, CLS, FCP, INP, TTFB) for websites built with Fauna as a backend database; Fauna metrics focus on read/write compute unit consumption, query execution latency, and storage utilization — these are database-level infrastructure metrics, not browser-side user experience quality metrics like Core Web Vitals; Fauna API response latency can contribute to TTFB if database queries are on the critical rendering path, but Fauna itself does not measure or report user-facing performance scores |
| Serverless database / data layer | No — PageGuard is an external monitoring tool, not a database or data storage service | ✓ Yes — Fauna core capability: globally distributed serverless document-relational database accessible via FQL or GraphQL API; ACID-compliant transactions across multiple documents with no connection limits and no server provisioning; multi-tenancy with fine-grained access control via Fauna tokens and ABAC (Attribute-Based Access Control); real-time data streaming and change feeds; built-in data model validation through Fauna schemas; CalVer versioning of collections; first-class serverless support — works seamlessly with Next.js API routes, AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, and Vercel Edge Functions without connection pooling issues |
| Automated website monitoring | ✓ Yes — weekly or daily scans with email alerts on score drop | No — Fauna does not perform automated quality monitoring of WCAG compliance, Core Web Vitals, or SEO quality for websites that use Fauna as a backend database; Fauna can trigger webhooks on data changes (for application-level events) but has no capability to scan the rendered frontend HTML output for accessibility or performance regressions; automated front-end quality monitoring of Fauna-backed applications requires a separate external monitoring tool |
| AI-generated plain-English report | ✓ Yes — explains issues in non-technical language | No — Fauna provides no AI-generated health report or plain-English explanation of front-end accessibility, SEO, or Core Web Vitals issues; Fauna dashboard shows query performance metrics, compute unit consumption, storage usage, and schema definitions — not front-end quality analysis of the websites consuming Fauna data |
| ADA Title II compliance monitoring | ✓ Yes — WCAG audit + alert on accessibility regression | No — Fauna does not audit or alert on WCAG compliance for websites using Fauna as a data backend; government agencies, nonprofits, and educational institutions building public-facing websites on Fauna face ADA Title II compliance requirements with an April 24, 2026 deadline; Fauna data updates can trigger frontend re-renders that introduce new accessible or inaccessible HTML — but Fauna has no mechanism to detect accessibility regressions in the rendered output; continuous WCAG monitoring of the production URL requires a separate external tool like PageGuard |
| Works on any deployed platform | ✓ Yes — scans any URL on any hosting or platform | Fauna is a database layer used by applications deployed on any platform (Vercel, Netlify, Cloudflare, AWS, etc.); it does not scan or monitor the front-end quality of any website, regardless of where the application is hosted; Fauna focuses exclusively on data storage and retrieval without cross-platform frontend quality monitoring capability |
| Independent external audit | ✓ Yes — third-party scan, shareable URL for clients/stakeholders | No — Fauna provides no built-in tool to generate a shareable external front-end health report; Fauna dashboard shows database metrics, query logs, collection schemas, and access control — not WCAG accessibility scores or SEO quality scores shareable with clients, procurement teams, or ADA compliance auditors |
| Instant on-demand scan | ✓ Yes — results in 30 seconds, no code changes needed | No — no on-demand front-end health scan capability; auditing a website built with Fauna for WCAG accessibility, Core Web Vitals, or SEO quality requires running third-party tools against the public URL of the frontend application; Fauna itself has no concept of scanning the HTML quality of the applications consuming its database API |
| Multi-site dashboard | ✓ Yes — 1–50 sites depending on plan | Fauna dashboard shows all databases within a Fauna account with collection browser, index management, query console, metrics, and access control — there is no cross-site health dashboard showing WCAG compliance, SEO quality, or Core Web Vitals for multiple websites backed by Fauna databases |
| Pricing for health monitoring | ✓ Free + from $9/mo for automated monitoring | Health monitoring not available — Fauna pricing is based on compute units and storage: free tier available; Individual plan from $25/month; Team plan from $95/month for higher limits; no front-end quality monitoring at any price tier regardless of plan level |
Get WCAG accessibility scores and Core Web Vitals for any website using Fauna as a backend database. Results in 30 seconds. No Fauna account access or database credentials required.
Results in ~30 seconds. 4 scores: Performance, Accessibility, SEO, Best Practices.
Yes — PageGuard scans any public URL regardless of the backend database or data layer. Paste your Fauna-backed website URL into PageGuard for a full health report covering WCAG accessibility, Core Web Vitals, SEO, and best practices in ~30 seconds. No Fauna account, API credentials, or code modifications required.
No — Fauna is a serverless document-relational database focused on globally distributed, ACID-compliant data storage through a flexible API. It has no built-in WCAG compliance checking, accessibility scoring, or front-end quality analysis. Accessibility and performance quality of a Fauna-backed website depends on the frontend rendering layer. PageGuard audits the live rendered URL and provides a WCAG 2.1 AA score with specific issues to fix.
Yes — if your application's server-side rendering waits for Fauna query results before returning HTML, slow database queries can increase TTFB and delay LCP. Fauna provides query latency metrics in its dashboard, but measuring the actual user-facing TTFB and LCP impact requires an external tool. PageGuard measures real performance at the production URL and alerts you when scores drop, regardless of whether the bottleneck is Fauna query latency or another component.
No — they serve completely different purposes. Fauna is a serverless database that provides globally distributed, ACID-compliant data storage for applications built in Next.js, Remix, or other frameworks. PageGuard is an external quality monitoring tool that audits the front-end HTML delivered to users for WCAG compliance, Core Web Vitals, and SEO quality. Teams using Fauna for backend data persistence should add PageGuard to continuously verify front-end health at the production URL.