SEO Audit Engine

Automated 50+ point SEO checks with 0–100 scoring, category breakdowns, and actionable fix suggestions for every crawled page.

The SEO Audit Engine runs 50+ automated checks on every crawled page, producing a 0–100 score with letter grades and actionable fix suggestions. Audits run automatically during crawling and can be re-run on demand at no cost.


How Audits Work

Audits are triggered in two ways:

  1. During crawl — when the Edge Crawler indexes a page, the audit engine automatically analyzes the stored HTML. No extra credits are consumed beyond the crawl cost.
  2. On-demand re-audit — from the URL Detail page, click Re-audit to re-run checks against the currently stored HTML. This is free — useful after making rule changes that affect the page output.

The audit engine parses the stored HTML snapshot and evaluates each check against SEO best practices. Results are stored and displayed on the SEO Audit tab of the URL Detail page.

SEO audits are free — they don't consume any credits. Only the initial crawl costs 1 credit per page.


Scoring System

Each page receives a score from 0 to 100, mapped to letter grades:

ScoreGradeMeaning
90–100AExcellent — meets or exceeds SEO best practices
80–89BGood — minor improvements possible
70–79CFair — several issues should be addressed
60–69DPoor — significant issues impacting SEO
0–59FCritical — major problems need immediate attention

The overall score is a weighted sum across audit categories.


Audit Categories

Checks are grouped into 9 categories, each with a defined weight in the overall score:

CategoryWeightWhat It Checks
Meta Tags20%Title length, description length, presence, duplication, keyword usage
Open Graph10%OG title, description, image, type, URL
Twitter Cards5%Twitter card type, title, description, image
Headings15%H1 presence and count, heading hierarchy, keyword usage in headings
Content15%Word count, thin content, reading level, content-to-HTML ratio
Images10%Alt text presence, image dimensions, lazy loading, file sizes
Links10%Internal link count, broken links, nofollow usage, orphan detection
Schema10%JSON-LD presence, schema types, required properties, validation
Technical5%Canonical tag, robots directives, mobile viewport, language attribute

Category Breakdown View

The SEO Audit tab displays each category as an expandable card. Click a category to see its individual checks:

  • Pass — check passed successfully
  • Warning — non-critical issue that could be improved
  • Error — critical issue that should be fixed

Each check shows its impact level (high, medium, or low) and a brief explanation of why it matters and how to fix it.


Issues Panel

Below the category breakdown, the Issues panel presents a flat list of all warnings and errors across categories. Use this for a prioritized fix list:

  • Filter by severity (errors only, warnings only, or all)
  • Filter by impact level (high, medium, low)
  • Each issue links back to its category for context

Fix Actions

Many audit issues include a suggested fix action. Issues with auto-fixable strategies show a Fix with AI button directly in the audit results — see the Fix with AI docs for the full guide.

ActionWhat It Does
Fix with AIOne-click fix — automatically generates a rule (for structural issues like OG tags, canonical, viewport) or triggers AI Meta Generation (for title and description issues)
ManualRequires changes on your origin server — the audit explains what to change

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