Technical SEO audit report
also called Site crawl reportTechnical health auditIndexability reportSite health report
The crawl-side inventory: what is reachable, what is indexable, where canonicals disagree with reality, where redirect chains and error responses sit, and which templates carry the problem. It is scoped to structural faults rather than performance, Core Web Vitals and linking each have their own report, and it is ordered by how much search value sits behind the fault, not by fault count.
Who it is for, and what it settles
- Audience
- Technical SEO
- Job to be done
- Give engineering a ranked list of structural faults blocking pages from being fetched, indexed or consolidated correctly.
- Cadence
- Monthly
The metrics, in three tiers
Headline numbers carry the story. Diagnostics explain a headline that moved. Guardrails stop a wrong conclusion. Every row links to the definition, the formula, the caveats and what the metric is not all live on the metric page.
Headline What you lead with 3
Diagnostic Reached for when a headline moves 4
Required data sources
Skills that produce or interpret it
Method rungs covered
- R1 Reachable , covered
- R2 Retrieved , not covered
- R3 Referenced , not covered
- R4 Represented , not covered
- R5 Rewarded , not covered
It covers the bottom rung, so this report can tell you whether the numbers above it are sound in the first place.
Ask for it in one sentence
The prompt pack for this report, copy one, or watch it play in the simulator.
- "What technical issues are blocking our pages?" Simulate this → Prompt gallery →
- "Which pages are not indexable and should be?" Simulate this → Prompt gallery →
- "Where do our canonicals disagree with what ranks?" Simulate this → Prompt gallery →
- "How deep are our important pages buried?" Simulate this → Prompt gallery →
What to say out loud when you present it
A crawl is a snapshot with a start URL, a depth limit and a page budget, say what it covered before calling anything site-wide. Deep crawl coverage is population-gated on some properties, so an empty section can mean 'not collected' rather than 'no issues'. A fault count is not a priority list; weight by the impressions and clicks sitting behind the affected pages.
Related workflows and use cases
Watch a run that builds this report
All runs →
2 min 14 secMost of the Googlebot in your logs is not Google.Server logs · Crawl efficiency review◐Recreated from an anonymized session
2 min 15 secSome of your best pages cannot be reached from your own site.Site crawl + Search Console · Linking opportunity review◐Recreated from an anonymized session
How this entry was verified
Knowing the contents is step one.
Someone still has to assemble it, defend the numbers and present it. Here is the rest of the showcase.