Site Audit Settings

Site Audit Settings

Site Audit Settings Overview

Site Audits provides a variety of reports and analysis based on a crawl, that can impact the health of a site. Site Audit Settings allow for the customization of Site Audit reports. The settings enable prioritizing issues and disable or hide certain issues from appearing in Site Audit reports. The settings apply to ALL crawls and will also impact the Health score. Settings are changeable on the fly. They don't impact what we audit. The settings outline what is included on the report once the audit is completed.

Background & Requirements

Users will need admin permissions to customize the priority and display of Site Audit reports in Site Audit Settings.


Site Audit Settings 


Page Analysis Rules
This setting allows you to enable/disable the page analysis issues shown in the Site Audit Report. It also allows you to customize the importance of each issue.

Alt Tag:
Image alt attribute exists but empty
Image has no alt attribute
Image has no width and height attribute
Canonical:
<link rel="canonical"> not found
Canonical tag <link rel="canonical"> URL is not absolute
Multiple Canonical Tags <link rel="canonical"> found on page
Canonical tag found outside the <head> section
Canonical tag <link rel="canonical"> found on page points to a different page
Canonical tag <link rel="canonical"> link is malformed
Canonical on Http Page Points to a https page
Canonical on Https Page Points to a http page
Canonicalized URL is noindex, nofollow
Canonical tag <link rel="canonical" contains empty url
Canonical Loop
Canonical points to a URL that is Error (5XX)
Canonical points to a url that is no index
Canonical points to a URL that is Not Found 404
Canonical points to a redirecting URL
Canonical points to another canonicalized URL
Canonical points to a disallowed URL
Canonical URL Blocked By Robots meta Tag
Canonical Url Blocked by X-Robots Header
Heading:
Heading tag <h2> not found
Heading 1 tag <h1> not found
More than one Heading 1 tag <H1> found
<h1> to <h6> chain broken.
Heading tag <h1> empty
Heading tag <h2> empty
<h1> tag found outside <body>
<h2> tag found outside <body>
Duplicate H1
Hreflang:
Hreflang with duplicate language/region combinations
Hreflang with multiple defaults
Invalid region in the hreflang attribute
Invalid language in the hreflang attribute
Missing Language entry
Underscore Instead of Dash
Invalid order of hreflang values
No self-referencing hreflang tag
Hreflang Using Relative links
Empty Hreflang URL
Hreflang Present Outside <head>
Hreflang url is invalid
Conflicting hreflang and rel=canonical
X-Default Missing
Hreflang link points to redirected page
Broken Hreflang Links
Return Tag Errors
Hreflang Url Not Indexable
Hreflang Url Disallowed By Robots.txt
Hreflang Url Blocked By Robots meta Tag
Hreflang Url Blocked by X-Robots Header
HTML:
Two different <base> directives found on page
More than one <base> tag found
<base> is found on page and is same as page (that is page URL)
Base tag points to different page
Base tag <base> contains malformed or empty URL
Hyperlink (<a href>) has both href and onclick attribute
Hyperlink(s) (<a href>) are using relative reference
No internal links found
More than 100 hyperlinks found
Meta:
Meta Robots <meta name="robots"> specified more than once
Meta Robot tag <meta name="robots"> content contains no follow
Meta Robot tag <meta name="robots"> content contains no index
Meta description tag <meta name="description"> missing
Meta description tag <meta name="description"> too long
Meta description tag <meta name="description"> occurs more than once
Meta keyword tag <meta name="keyword"> found
Meta tag found outside the <head> section
Meta Refresh tag <meta http-equiv="refresh"> found
Meta description tag <meta name="description"> empty
Meta Description same as <h1 >
Duplicate Meta Descriptions
Title:
Title tag <title> missing
Title is less than 10 characters
Title is longer than 60 characters
Title tag <title> occurs more than once
Title tag <title> found outside the <head> section
Title and Meta Descriptions are the same
Title tag <title> empty
Title is a single word
<title> same as <h1>
Duplicate Title
URL:
URL has // in path
URL has query
URL has 3 or more query parameters
URL has repetitive parameters in query
URL has more than 115 characters
URL has non-lowercase elements in path
URL has non-ascii elements in path
Viewport:
Missing <meta Viewport> tag
Multiple viewport <meta> tags were found in the <head>
Viewport <meta> tag does not have a width set
viewport <meta> tag has a specific width set
viewport <meta> tag is missing the initial-scale attribute
viewport <meta> tag is missing the width attribute
viewport <meta> exists outside the head
viewport <meta> has a maximum-scale set
viewport <meta> has a minimum-scale set

Site crawl default user agent
This setting defines the default value of the "User Agent" field in the "New Crawl Request" pop-up.


Site crawl Headers
This setting defines the http request headers value for the crawler to retrieve Target URLs. Multiple key + value pairs can entered via the Add button. 



Site crawl default bypass robots file
This setting defines the default value of the "Bypass Robots File" field in the New Crawl Request pop-up.


Site crawl starting url validation
This setting enables the crawler to validate the starting URL. 

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