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What does webpage auditing involve?

What does webpage auditing involve?

A website needs auditing from time to time for its better performance. Even if your website is ranking well, then also you need an audit for it. An audit can identify the issues for a website like some slow loading pages, broken links, etc.

How often a website audit be done?

There is no rule for auditing, but many developers say that conducting an audit one or two times a year can give good results. However, the website’s performance cannot be the same all the time because of updates in SEO and the improvement of algorithms. This means that if your website is performing well at one time, that does not mean that it will perform the same every time.

How can the audit of websites be conducted?

Audit of a website can be bulky for even the tiny websites as it has to work on every single page or section, which seems like a nightmare. However, there are several tools to solve this problem that will help you in auditing.

Auditing of website content

Then content on the website plays a vital role in ranking a website. If you have correctly used the keywords in the content, then it’s good from an SEO point of view, and your website ranking will also improve.

Checklist of website auditing

It is worth auditing a website but after going through its process and it is essential to know. When the auditing process is completed, feedback and information are needed about the issues in the website, even if you solve minor issues that also make a big difference in making your website perform well.

Steps of auditing a website:

Step1:- Choosing a tool for site audit

These tools can make the work easy as they help in focus on the critical areas where updates or improvements are needed. Tools available for the auditing are- Ahrefs, SEM Rush, and Screaming frog.

The premium or paid version of these tools gives much better results of the issues in the website.

Step 2:- From the tool running website address

After completing your free trial and setting up your paid tool, you have to run your website address through the tool. Then press the start button depending on the size of the website time will be taken. When the process is completed, it provides you with the issues which need to be fixed.

Step 3:- Technical errors dealing

It is much similar to an SEO audit and focuses on the issues that negatively affect the SEO. For example, he picks up the following errors:- crawl errors, HTTPS status, XML sitemap status, Site and page load time, Mobile responsive, broken images, Robots.txt file, and broken links.

Step 4:- Many SEO problems are not covered in step 3. They need to be covered.
  • Duplication or missing of title and meta tags.
  • Alt text or title text may be duplicated or missing.
  • Google analytics code missing.
  • You are wrongly used or absent of heading tags like H1, H2, etc.
  • Non-optimisation of anchor text and internal links
Step 5:- Design website audit

If your website is easily accessible, then it not only has a good ranking, but customers also interact with it. User interaction on your website can be analyzed by tools such as live chats, etc.

Step 6:- Content of the website

Having good content can help you convert people into your customers. If an audit is good, then it shows all aspects of which page traffic is more and for which keyword and focuses on pages with no ranking.

Step 7:- The checklist

After the audit is completed, the auditor will provide a report of errors and issues on your website. You will then read the report and try to solve all the issues and errors in the website on its excellent performance.