Understanding Your Metrics

How the technical audit is scored

The technical audit crawls your own website and checks whether AI engines can read it properly. It is the foundation underneath everything else: if your site cannot be crawled and parsed, no amount of content work will surface you.

What gets checked

151 checks in total, of which 132 apply to individual pages and 19 apply to the site as a whole. They span 17 categories including indexability, titles, headings, content, images, links, structured data, security and AI readiness.

Every check returns one of five results: pass, warn, fail, notice, or not applicable. Checks that do not apply to a page are skipped entirely.


How a page is scored

Not all checks matter equally, so each carries a weight based on how serious it is.

SeverityWeight
critical15
high7
medium2.5
low0.5
notice0 - counted for display, excluded from scoring
Points earned    = pass -> full weight
                   warn -> half weight
                   fail -> zero

Points available = the total weight of the checks
                   that applied to this page

Page score = (points earned / points available) x 100

A warning earns half credit rather than none. Because inapplicable checks drop out, the denominator changes from page to page.


The severity cap

After the average is calculated, a ceiling is applied. Without it, a page with one catastrophic problem could still score well on the strength of many trivial passes.

If any CRITICAL check fails:
    ceiling = 45, minus 5 for each extra critical failure,
              never below 20

Else if any HIGH check fails:
    ceiling = 85, minus 8 for each high failure,
              never below 45

Else if 3 or more MEDIUM checks fail:
    ceiling = 80

Only the first matching rule applies, and the cap can only lower a score.

Critical failuresHighest possible score
145
240
335
6 or more20

This is why a page can show a low overall score while several of its categories show 100. The category scores are not capped; only the page total is. If a page scores 45 with strong categories, look for a single critical failure rather than assuming broad problems.


The site score

              sum of every audited page's score
Site score =  --------------------------------
                 number of pages audited

A plain average with every page weighted equally. Your home page counts exactly as much as your deepest blog post. Pages that failed to load are excluded from both halves.


The four hero tiles

Three of these count individual checks summed across every page, not pages.

TileWhat it counts
Critical - blocks citationChecks across all pages that failed at critical or high severity
WarningsChecks that warned, or failed at medium, low or notice severity
Passing checksChecks that passed
Pages need fixesPages with at least one failing check

Only the last counts pages. Because the first three multiply checks by pages, they get large quickly and are shown in compact form such as "1.2K", with the exact figure on hover.


Template issues

A problem appearing on so many pages that it clearly comes from your site template rather than individual content. Fix it once and it is fixed everywhere.

A check qualifies when it fails or warns on 3 or more pages and on at least 30% of all audited pages. Both conditions must hold, which keeps the list to genuinely systemic problems.

Start here. A single template fix routinely moves more pages than weeks of individual page edits.


Reading a page row

ElementMeaning
Red badgeHow many checks failed on that page
Amber badgeHow many warned
Green tickNo failures and no warnings
AI scoreThat page's score out of 100

Rows are sorted worst first, so the top of the table is always your work queue.


Frequently asked questions

Sort by score and look at the bottom. Because every page is weighted equally, a handful of badly broken pages pulls the average down more than most people expect.

That is the severity cap. One critical check is failing, which ceilings the page at 45 regardless of how well everything else scored. Find the critical failure and the score jumps.

That depends on your plan's page allowance. If your crawl shows as partial, it reached the cap before finishing the site.

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