Site Auditor is available as a paid add-on in accounts created before November 2023. For more information please reach out to our friendly support team.
What is the Site Auditor?
The site auditor add-on is part of our SEO tools package that allows you to discover and fix your on-site SEO issues, help boost your client's rankings, and improve the on-site user experience for your clients' websites.
Our site auditor scans for 40+ of the most common technical SEO issues. Here's a list of what we scan for, and how it affects your SEO.
Where do I find the Site Auditor?
First, make sure to enable the Site Auditor for your Client. Once enabled, you’ll find the Site Auditor under the Default Dashboard section in the left-hand panel of the screen.
Running your first site audit
Our Site Auditor will automatically crawl the website upon activatiog using our default crawl settings. After enabling your Site Auditor, you should see initialization displayed when you access the Site Auditor dashboards.
Configuring your subsequent Crawls
To customize your crawl settings, go to the Site Auditor dashboard and click the slider icon in the top right corner. From there, switch to the Settings tab, then click Manage to access and adjust your crawl configuration.
This should redirect you to your Site Auditor settings overview, click on Edit:
From the Crawl Wizard, you can customize various crawl settings. You can specify how many pages the crawler is allowed to scan, choose whether to include or exclude subdomains, and define subdomains or specific URL paths to exclude if include subdomain is enabled.
You can schedule crawls based on your preferred frequency: Daily, Weekly, or Monthly. You’ll also be able to specify the exact day and time for when the crawl should run automatically.
You can exclude specific URLs or paths from being crawled by entering them into the field provided. Additionally, you can choose to ignore specific tests, pages, or combinations of both, which allows you to refine the crawl results and focus only on what’s relevant to your audit.
How do I run a new audit?
To run succeeding audits, click here.
How long does an audit take?
Audits can take anywhere from a few minutes to a couple of hours to complete depending on the number of pages being crawled, the website's structure, and the current load on our servers. Our auditor is specifically designed to run slowly and gently, to avoid bringing down websites due to a large influx of traffic.
After you start your site audit, it will continue to run in the background. This allows you to perform other activities such as creating reports and return once the crawl is complete.
What's in your Site Auditor dashboard
When you load the Site Auditor, the most recent audit scores will be displayed in the dashboard. A quick description of these sections are as follows:
Tests, Pages, and History sections
Tests - This tab acts like the home button and clicking on it will bring you to the main results page of the latest Site Audit.
Pages - This tab will load the pages that have been crawled and their corresponding scores and statuses. The pages are sorted by Status Code by default.
History - This tab will report all the audits you ran for this Client, as well as the audit scores, duration of the audits, pages crawled, and statuses. Clicking on any of the three most recent audit dates will load the results for that audit.
2. The Action section
The Settings button - Clicking this button loads the settings panel where you can view the Filters, Crawl Settings, Schedule, and Ignored Tests filter for the current audit.
The Share button - This button will allow you to download the test results in a PDF or XLS format, or share the report using a link.
Fullscreen button - This button switches the dashboard into presentation mode for a cleaner, fullscreen view.
The Perform Audit button - Clicking this will run a new audit for the Client.
3. The Score and Stats section
Various information regarding the audit is displayed here. The overall website score, the date it was crawled, how many errors are considered critical, how many are warnings, and more.
4. The Tests section
This table lists all the tests performed and how many pages were flagged as failed.
You can also search for a specific test via the search field.
Site Auditor Pages section
The Pages section will display all the pages on your website that have been crawled by the auditor. Clicking on a page in the table will open the Page Details section.
The pages are sorted by the audit score from lowest to highest by default. You can customize the sort order by clicking on the column name.
You can also add/remove metrics or show/hide page results by clicking the Settings button in the top right corner.
Click here to learn how to ignore pages.
Site Auditor History section
You have the option to view past site audit results by clicking the History tab from the main section. Here's our guide on how to do just that.
We keep historical site audit data for 60 days, and after that, this data is automatically removed. You can download your site audit data as a PDF report if you wish to keep long-term records. See here for more information on creating reports and downloading them as PDFs.
Clicking an audit will load the results on the same page. You also have the ability to compare results between audits.
How to customize and share your audit results
The site audit report provides a lot of information to analyze, and each client's reporting requirements will be different. Here's how you can customize the information you report to a client.
Also, if your client requests a PDF report of the site audit, you can download an audit result and send it via email. Another option is to add site audit results to an existing scheduled report.