What is a Technical SEO Audit?

What Is a Technical SEO Audit?

A technical SEO audit is a systematic review of your website's infrastructure to ensure search engines can efficiently crawl, index, and render your pages. It covers everything from site speed and mobile-friendliness to XML sitemaps and structured data.

Think of it as a health check for your website's foundation. Great content means nothing if Google can't find or understand it.

What a Technical SEO Audit Covers

Crawlability

• Robots.txt configuration — are you accidentally blocking important pages?
• XML sitemap — does it include all indexable URLs and exclude noindex pages?
• Internal linking structure — can crawlers reach every important page within 3 clicks?
• Orphan pages — content that exists but has no internal links pointing to it

Indexability

• Index status — how many of your pages are actually in Google's index?
• Canonical tags — are you consolidating duplicate content correctly?
• Noindex directives — intentional or accidental?
• Redirect chains — multiple hops waste crawl budget

Performance

• Core Web Vitals — LCP, FID/INP, and CLS scores
• Page speed — server response time, render-blocking resources
• Mobile usability — responsive design, tap targets, viewport configuration

Security & Architecture

• HTTPS — mixed content warnings, certificate issues
• Hreflang tags — for multilingual sites, are alternate language versions correctly linked?
• Structured data — schema markup errors or warnings

How to Run One Efficiently

Manual audits work for small sites but don't scale. A 500-page site with quarterly audits means checking 2,000 page-level data points per year — minimum.

The modern approach:

1. Use automated crawling to identify issues at scale
2. Prioritize by impact (indexing blockers > minor warnings)
3. Fix systematically, starting with highest-traffic pages
4. Monitor continuously, not just quarterly

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