Website SEO Audit: Crawl Your Site and Fix What Matters

A website SEO audit looks at your whole site, not just one page. Our crawler starts at the address you enter, follows your internal links the way Googlebot does, and checks every page it finds for missing titles, broken links, missing alt text, thin content, duplicate tags and indexing problems.

You get one site score, a fix list ranked by impact and, for every issue, the exact pages that have it — so you can hand a developer a precise to-do list instead of a vague “improve our SEO” request.

What a site-wide audit finds that a page check can’t

Some of the most common SEO problems only appear when you compare pages with each other:

• Duplicate titles and meta descriptions, which make Google rewrite your snippets or rank the wrong page.
• Broken internal links that lead to 404 pages and waste the authority you have built.
• Thin pages with only a few sentences — often tag archives, empty categories or forgotten landing pages.
• Pages blocked by mistake with noindex or robots.txt, a classic leftover after a redesign or when a staging site goes live.
• Redirect chains that slow down both visitors and crawlers.

How to prioritize your audit results

An audit of a real site can list hundreds of individual problems. Don’t fix them in the order you find them. We sort by severity and by how many pages each issue touches. A sensible order is:

1. Indexing blockers: pages returning errors, noindex tags and robots.txt rules on pages that should rank.
2. Broken internal links and redirect chains.
3. Missing or duplicate titles and H1s on your most important pages.
4. Thin content on pages you want to rank — expand it, or merge it into a stronger page.
5. Speed hints and missing alt text, which improve experience and accessibility across the site.

How often should you audit your website?

Run a full audit after any redesign, CMS migration or large content update, and at least once a month otherwise. Sites that publish often or have several editors benefit from weekly checks, because small mistakes — an unpublished page still linked from the menu, a plugin update that strips meta tags — pile up quickly. Weekly monitoring re-crawls your site automatically and e-mails you when the score changes.

Tips for a useful audit

• If your staging site is publicly reachable, audit it before launch, then audit production again on launch day.
• Fix templates, not pages. When 80 product pages miss a meta description, the fix is usually one change in your theme.
• Send developers the affected URLs together with our explanation — every issue includes a ready-made “how to fix” note.
• Keep your first audit as a baseline so you can show progress to your team or client.

Limits to keep in mind

Our crawler reads the HTML your server sends. Content that only appears after JavaScript runs in the browser isn’t rendered, so heavy single-page apps may show fewer links than they really have. We stay on the domain you enter, skip files such as PDFs and images, and stop at your plan’s page limit.

Privacy and safety

We crawl politely: a few requests at a time, honoring robots.txt rules for our crawler, with a clearly labeled user agent so you can recognize us in your server logs. Audit data stays in your account until you delete it. Read our privacy policy for details.

Last updated Oct 13, 2026 by the Yes SEO team.