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Website audit10-part series
Select pages, prioritize findings and verify changes.
Know the feature scope
Inspect fetched HTML and bounded same-host file signals, not every page, script rendering, penetration testing or search and advertising approval.
Series contents
10 guides- 01
Website SEO Audit Checklist: What to Check First
A practical order for checking titles, descriptions, H1s, canonicals, noindex directives, security headers, and redirects.
- 02
What should you fix first in a website audit?
Read a website audit in the order of access, indexing settings, content and sharing metadata. Set repair priorities around the page's purpose rather than optimizing a proprietary score.
- 03
Choose a home, event or product page to audit
Start with the public URL visitors actually land on. Do not apply the home-page result to every detail page.
- 04
Prioritize missing titles and descriptions
When several fields are missing, first make the page identifiable. Prepare copy that explains what the reader will find.
- 05
Review headings and image descriptions in context
H1 counts and missing alt values are starting points. Review structure and image purpose before writing descriptions.
- 06
Separate sharing-card issues in a website audit
Search and sharing copy can be separate. Compare audit signals with Social Preview before distribution.
- 07
Understand robots.txt and sitemap signal scope
Site-file results signal discovery and access. One response is not a complete crawler permission or indexing verdict.
- 08
Read individual findings before the overall score
For a low score, inspect the concrete findings. Score changes and the value of a fix to users can differ.
- 09
Keep before-and-after website audit records
Compare the same page and findings. Record deployment and inspection times to separate caching and destination changes.
- 10
When a website check fails: interpret the error in context
Distinguish target restrictions, connection failures and unexpected HTML in website, SEO, link and response checks. Understand why a server fetch can differ from your browser.