Site audit

A site audit crawls a site page by page and lists what is broken, ranked by how much it matters. netweft runs its own crawler, so a crawled page costs 1 credit.

Run an audit

On Site audit, set the run’s options and choose Run audit:

• Crawl up to: 10, 50, 200, 1,000 or 5,000 pages, capped by the plan: 1,000 on Pro, 2,500 on Studio and 5,000 on Agency.
• Start URL: leave it empty to start from the project’s domain, or name a page such as https://example.com/docs to audit one section.
• Measure page speed: opt-in, described below.

The audit holds credits for the full page count before it starts and is charged only for the pages it crawled. One audit runs per project at a time, and the plan caps audits per month across the whole workspace: 60 on Pro, 150 on Studio and 300 on Agency.

How the crawler behaves

• It starts at the start URL and follows links breadth-first, so the shallow pages are crawled before the deep ones.
• It stays on the start URL’s origin.
• It reads robots.txt and skips any path disallowed for its user agent, netweft-audit. A site owner can allow or block it by that name.
• A 401, 403, 429 or 503 answer counts as the crawler being refused, reported as Crawler was blocked, and not as a fault in the page.

Issues

Every issue has a severity. The audit page counts critical issues and warnings at the top, and the severity filter narrows the list.

Severity	Issues
Critical	Crawler was blocked; Broken internal link; Missing title tag; Server error
Warning	Page returns an error; Conflicting canonical; Duplicate page content; Duplicate meta description; Duplicate title; Images without alt text; Missing h1; Missing meta description; Orphan page; Redirect chain; Slow server response; Thin content
Info	Page is buried deep in the site; Heading levels skip a step; Meta description is too long; Meta description is too short; More than one h1; Page links nowhere; Page is set to noindex; Title is too long; Title is too short

Open an issue to see every page it affects. Pages crawled lists each page with its title, HTTP status, word count and whether it can be indexed.

Page speed

Measure page speed runs Lighthouse on a sample: the start URL plus one page of each kind the site has, such as a category page and an article, up to 10 pages at 50 credits each. Each measured page reports:

• Performance, accessibility, best-practices and SEO scores, 0 to 100.
• Largest Contentful Paint, Interaction to Next Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift and Time to First Byte.

Export and delete

Export an audit’s issues as CSV from the audit page. Delete audit removes a finished audit with its crawled pages, issues and scores; the credits it used are not returned. A running audit cannot be deleted.