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Reading your first audit
Your first scan will find more than you expected. Here is how to tell what matters from what does not.
Understanding the dashboard
After a scan completes, the dashboard shows four things:
- Your score — a single number summarising the issues found
- Issues — grouped by severity, each tied to a specific page
- Proposed fixes — what Crawlix would change, awaiting your review
- Change history — what has already been applied, and how it measured
Understanding the SEO score
The score is your issues weighted by severity. Its value is as a trend line, not a grade — what matters is whether it moves after you fix things.
Be careful here
Do not compare it to another tool's score. Every SEO tool weights differently, so the numbers are not measuring the same thing. A 72 here and a 72 elsewhere are coincidence.
A score change should always be explainable by the issue list. If the score moves and the issues did not, that is a bug — please report it.
Understanding issues
Every issue names the page it is on, what is wrong, why it matters, and what to do about it.
If you disagree with one, check the page yourself. A false positive is a bug, not a difference of opinion — tell us, with the URL and what you see in view-source.
Worth knowing
One common and legitimate surprise: if your content is injected by JavaScript, Crawlix reports what is in the origin HTML. That is not the tool being wrong — it is what a crawler that does not execute JavaScript also sees.
Issue severity
| Severity | What it means | When to do it |
|---|---|---|
| Critical | Actively preventing indexing, or badly misleading search engines | Now |
| High | Materially affecting how a page is understood or presented | This week |
| Medium | Real, worth fixing, not urgent | This month |
| Low | Refinements | When convenient |
Work top-down. Most sites have hundreds of low-severity warnings and three genuinely important problems, and most people spend their time on the wrong ones.
What to fix first
If you only do a few things, do these:
- Pages blocked from indexing that should not be — noindex, robots, or canonical
- Broken or chained redirects on pages that matter
- Missing or duplicate titles on commercial pages
- Core Web Vitals failing on your highest-traffic templates
- Missing schema on product, article or local business pages
- Thin or duplicated content on pages meant to rank
- Orphan pages with no internal links pointing at them
A page that cannot be indexed cannot rank, so every other fix on it is wasted effort. That is why indexation comes first.
Understanding recommendations
A recommendation names a specific page and a specific change. If one is vague enough to apply to any website, it is not doing its job — tell us.
Understanding AI-generated fixes
For each fix you see:
- The original value — what is on the page now
- The suggested value — what Crawlix would change it to
- A confidence score — how sure Crawlix is
- An apply method — which route would deliver it
Be careful here
AI output is a suggestion, not a guarantee. It is sometimes wrong, and the change history exists precisely because some changes make things worse. Read anything that makes a factual claim about your business before approving it.
Confidence scores are calibrated over time against measured outcomes. Early on, treat them as a rough ordering rather than a probability.
Next: reviewing and applying fixes.