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Site Audit

Run comprehensive technical SEO audits to identify and fix issues that are affecting your website's search rankings.

Overview​

SearchVector's Site Audit crawls your website and checks for technical SEO issues across hundreds of factors. You get a prioritized list of issues with clear explanations and actionable recommendations for each one.

Running a site audit​

Step 1: Start an audit​

  1. Go to your SearchVector dashboard.
  2. Click Site Audit in the left sidebar.
  3. Enter your website URL.
  4. Click Start Audit.

SearchVector will begin crawling your website. Depending on the size of your site, the audit may take a few minutes to complete.

Step 2: Review the audit report​

Once the crawl is complete, the audit report shows:

  • Overall health score — a percentage representing your site's overall technical SEO health.
  • Issues by severity — issues categorized as Errors, Warnings, or Notices.
  • Pages crawled — how many pages were analyzed.
  • Issue breakdown — a list of all detected issues grouped by category.

Step 3: Fix issues by priority​

Issues are organized by impact level:

SeverityDescriptionAction required
ErrorCritical issues that directly harm rankingsFix immediately
WarningIssues that may be hurting performanceFix soon
NoticeMinor issues or suggestions for improvementFix when possible

What Site Audit checks​

Crawlability and indexing​

  • Pages blocked by robots.txt that should be accessible.
  • Noindex tags on pages that should be indexed.
  • Broken internal links (404 errors).
  • Redirect chains and loops.
  • XML sitemap issues.

Page performance​

  • Slow page load times.
  • Core Web Vitals issues (LCP, FID, CLS).
  • Large unoptimized images.
  • Render-blocking resources.

On-page SEO​

  • Missing or duplicate title tags.
  • Missing or duplicate meta descriptions.
  • Missing H1 tags.
  • Duplicate content across pages.
  • Thin content pages with insufficient word count.

Technical structure​

  • Broken external links.
  • HTTP pages on a site that should be HTTPS.
  • Mixed content warnings (HTTP resources on HTTPS pages).
  • Hreflang errors for multilingual sites.
  • Structured data (schema markup) errors.

Internal linking​

  • Pages with no internal links pointing to them (orphan pages).
  • Pages with too many outgoing internal links.
  • Internal links pointing to redirected or broken pages.

Understanding your audit results​

Health score​

The health score reflects the percentage of crawled pages that have no critical or major issues. A score above 90 is generally healthy. A score below 70 suggests significant issues that need attention.

Issue details​

Click on any issue to see:

  • A description of the problem.
  • Why it matters for SEO.
  • The list of affected pages.
  • Step-by-step instructions to fix it.
tip

Start with Errors before moving to Warnings. Fixing critical issues first gives you the biggest improvement in your health score and rankings.

Scheduling automated audits​

You can schedule Site Audit to run automatically:

  1. Open your Site Audit settings.
  2. Enable Scheduled Crawls.
  3. Choose your crawl frequency — weekly or monthly.

SearchVector will notify you when a new audit is complete and highlight any new issues since the last crawl.

note

The number of pages you can crawl per audit depends on your plan. Check your account settings for your current crawl limit.

Exporting audit results​

  • Download a CSV of all issues for tracking and reporting.
  • Share the audit report directly with team members.
  • Use the PDF export for client-ready audit reports.

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