AgencyAnalytics

David Diaz

Tatum Savage

Matthew Davis

Run site audits and analyze reported issues

Site Audits

A quick guide on what our site auditor's settings mean and what they do

Customize the Site Auditor Crawl Settings

We discuss how to analyze page-level tests and results.

View and analyze site audit pages

Navigate to Site Auditor within the campaign you'd like to run a one time audit, then edit your settings before running the audit.

Run a one time site audit

In Site Auditor settings, click edit, then select your frequency preferences from the available dropdown menus.

Schedule recurring site audits

Click the settings button at the top right to edit your crawl settings. You'll then enter the paths or URLs to be excluded from the auditor.

Exclude specific pages from being crawled

Once your audit has completed, view the issues/errors found by clicking each type of error

View audit issues and errors

Head to the site auditor's history tab and select the past audit you'd like to view results for.

View previous site audit results

Click the "Export" button at the top right, then choose either a PDF or XLS file, or a shareable web link.

Download site audit results

Head to the site auditor settings and select the past audit you'd like to compare with from the drop down menu.

Compare to a previous site audit

Head to the history tab in the site auditor, select the test data to remove and click the delete button.

Delete old site auditor data

Hover over the test or page you'd like to hide from your results, and click the eye icon next to it in order to dismiss it.

Ignore tests or pages in the site auditor

Click the settings button at the top right, and select "show ignored tests" or "hide ignored tests" from the drop down menu.

Show or hide ignored tests or pages in the site auditor

Allow our site auditor to crawl your website, or to set specific paths to be crawled.

Allow our site auditor via robots.txt and firewall

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How To

Identify what kind of 4XX error our site auditor is reporting and verify the link status at https://httpstatus.io

Verify "4XX Errors" reported by our site auditor

The site auditor checks the URL "example.com/robots.txt", and will report your robots.txt file as not found if it is missing at that URL.

Why can't the site auditor find the Robots.txt file on my website?

Use your browser's developer tools to confirm when our site auditor flags "nofollow" internal links on your website.

Verify "NoFollow Attributes in Internal Links" reported by our site auditor

Open the HTTP version of the website in a browser that has never visited the website. It should not redirect to HTTPS.

Verify "Missing Https Redirect" reported by our site auditor

Check your page's source code to verify the pages with missing canonical tags reported by our site auditor.

Verify "Missing Canonical Tag" reported by our site auditor

Verify all the pages with missing meta descriptions reported by our site auditor within your page's source code.

Verify "Missing Meta Description" reported by our site auditor

Verify the link status at https://httpstatus.io/

Verify "5xx errors" reported by our site auditor

Use your browser's developer tools to search for <title> on the pages reported by our site auditor to find all the duplicate titles.

Verify "Duplicate Titles" reported by our site auditor

Use your browser's developer tools to verify whether alt attributes are missing in the images reported by our site auditor.

Verify "Missing Alt Attributes" reported by our site auditor

To verify what our site auditor reports, use your browser's developer tools to search for <h1> to find all H1 instances on the page.

Verify "Multiple H1 Tags" reported by our site auditor

Verify what our site auditor reports using your browser's developer tools to find all the NoFollow external links within a page.

Verify "NoFollow Attributes in External Links" reported by our site auditor

To verify what our site auditor reports, access your website's robots.txt file to search for your website's sitemap.

Verify "Sitemap.xml not Found" reported by our site auditor

Troubleshooting

The Site Auditor will count both visible and invisible text and will report a "Low Word Count" warning if your page has less than 200 words.

How does the Site Auditor count the words on a page?

NoFollow links used to be treated as a directive by Google. However, these attributes are currently considered as a "hint".

Why does the Site Auditor crawl NoFollow links?

The site audit percentage score is a "grade" based on the issues we find, weighted by page depth and the importance of each issue.

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