Technical SEO Audit Checklist
A technical SEO audit checks whether search engines can crawl, render, and index your site correctly, before content or link quality even enters the picture. Run through indexability, speed, mobile usability, and structured data in that order, since each layer depends on the one before it.
What order should you check things in?
Start with indexability: are your important pages actually in Google's index, and is anything blocking them by accident? Move to crawlability and site structure next, then performance and mobile usability, then structured data and metadata last, since none of that matters if the page was never indexed in the first place.
TAKEAWAY CHECK
technical audit checklist
- 01Confirm key pages are indexed via Search Console's URL Inspection tool.
- 02Check robots.txt for accidental disallow rules blocking important sections.
- 03Review Core Web Vitals in Search Console's report or CrUX data.
- 04Confirm the site renders and functions correctly on mobile.
- 05Validate structured data with a schema testing tool.
- 06Check for broken internal links and orphaned pages with no internal links pointing to them.
- 07Confirm HTTPS is enforced site-wide with no mixed-content warnings.
- 08Review and submit an up-to-date XML sitemap.
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