How to Run Audits

On the 'Audits' tab in your project, you will be able to run basic, advanced or enterprise audits, depending on your preference.

It's important to note that on service projects we handle this for you proactively. But, if you'd like to run it yourself, you can. 😄 On SEO Software projects the audit is yours to run and act on - your plan includes 5 manual audits per project per day, and the monthly rescan runs on its own.

First, click the 'Start Audit' button, you'll then find a list of options for audit types, page amounts and preferences.

When you run the audit, it'll take a few minutes to process, depending on the size of your website. When it is processed, it'll display a list of critical, warning, notice and passed checks, along with the pages affected.

We do not show image links due to a very high false positive rate due to CDN's and external servers that host images.

Many audit issues might be incorrect. False positives are common with auditors. We have a dismiss button to dismiss a check, which moves it to passed. If you have any false positives, we let you know before dismissing them.

As a service, our job is to get everything that shows in the auditor fixed up. We handle this for you in the first month of a service plan.

The auditor rescans your website monthly.

If the audit returns almost no pages, or errors on every page

Our auditor uses a bot to crawl the site. When an audit comes back with a handful of pages, "unreachable" errors or a block page, your firewall or security plugin (Cloudflare WAF, Sucuri, Wordfence, AWS WAF, a hosting firewall) is blocking it. Whitelist these IP addresses and let us know - we will rerun the auditor:

94.130.93.30
168.119.141.170
168.119.99.190
168.119.99.191
168.119.99.192
168.119.99.193
168.119.99.194
68.183.60.34
134.209.42.109
68.183.60.80
68.183.54.131
68.183.49.222
68.183.149.30
68.183.157.22
68.183.149.129

The bot connects over the standard ports, 80 (HTTP) and 443 (HTTPS). The whitelist is permanent - the monthly rescans use the same addresses.