What A Website Audit Checks And Why It Matters

By Author: Alex Kirillov
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Most website owners only find out something is wrong when traffic drops or a customer complains. A website audit flips that around: it checks your site the way search engines and visitors experience it, and tells you what to fix before it costs you.

What gets checked
A good audit looks at more than SEO tags. WebsiteAudit.com, for example, runs 75+ checks in 15 categories in about 3 minutes. That covers performance and Core Web Vitals, on-page SEO and technical SEO, mobile usability, security headers, images, analytics tags, legal compliance, content quality and freshness, domain info and outbound links. It also looks at supplementary pages such as the blog, contact and about pages, not just the homepage.

Why the order of fixes matters
A long list of warnings is not useful on its own. What helps is knowing which issues have real impact. WebsiteAudit.com ranks every issue by impact and explains it in plain language, with specific steps to fix it, so you know where to start.

Tracking progress
Fixing a site is not a one-time job. Reports export to PDF, which makes them easy to share with a ...
... developer or client, and you can track your score over time to see whether changes helped.

Who it is for
Small businesses, developers and agencies, marketing and SEO teams, and anyone who builds websites. The first audit is free with a free account, and after that audits use credits that never expire.

Free tools
WebsiteAudit.com also offers free SEO tools: meta tag, Open Graph and Twitter Card generators, robots.txt and sitemap generators, a SERP preview tool and schema generators.

If you have never audited your site, start with one run at https://websiteaudit.com and work through the top issues first.