Website Audit — User Guide
The Website Audit tool fetches any public URL and runs a comprehensive suite of 30+ heuristic checks spanning SEO, Security & Best Practices, Accessibility, and Performance. Every issue detected includes an Actionable Fix Recommendation with clear impact levels (High, Medium, Low).
Key Features
1. 30+ Deep Audit Checks Suite
Checks are categorized across four standard web quality categories:
- SEO: Title tag length (10-60 chars), meta description length (50-160 chars), canonical URLs, single H1 heading hierarchy, Open Graph (
og:title,og:image,og:description), Twitter Card tags, JSON-LD structured data, robots indexability (noindexcheck),hreflanglanguage tags, and mixed HTTP/HTTPS links. - Best Practices & Security: HTTPS protocol enforcement, HSTS (
Strict-Transport-Security), Content-Security-Policy (CSP), Clickjacking defense (X-Frame-Options/frame-ancestors), MIME sniffing protection (X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff), Referrer Policy, HTML5 doctype, UTF-8 charset meta, favicon presence, and Brotli/Gzip text compression. - Accessibility: HTML
langattribute, imagealttext coverage, responsive viewport meta, pinch-to-zoom accessibility (user-scalable=nowarning), HTML5 landmark regions (<main>,<nav>,<header>,<footer>), and form field labeling. - Performance: Server response time (TTFB < 500ms), HTML document payload size (< 100 KB), script tag density, resource hints (
preconnect/dns-prefetch), native image lazy loading (loading="lazy"), and inline CSS sizes.
2. Actionable Fix Recommendations & Impact Levels
Every failed check (fail) or warning (warn) includes:
- Impact Level Badge:
High Impact,Medium Impact, orLow Impactindicating priority. - Actionable Fix Recommendation: Plain-English instructions detailing how webmasters and developers can fix the code or server header.
3. Google PageSpeed Insights (Lighthouse Integration)
- Optional live Lighthouse analysis running via Google PageSpeed Insights.
- Toggle between Mobile and Desktop audit strategies.
- Displays Core Web Vitals breakdown:
- LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)
- CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)
- FCP (First Contentful Paint)
- TBT (Total Blocking Time)
4. Interactive Filters & Quick Search
- Overall Audit Score Ring: Visual 0-100 overall health score badge.
- Category Filter Pills: Filter checks by category (SEO, Best Practices, Accessibility, Performance).
- Status Filter Toolbar: Filter checks by
Failed,Warnings,Passed, orInfo. - Search Bar: Live search check titles, descriptions, and recommendations.
5. Multi-Format Export Options
Use the Download Report menu to export audit results in:
- HTML Report (
.html): Formatted standalone report with CSS styling for clients. - PDF Report (Print): Opens the browser print dialog pre-formatted for "Save as PDF".
- Markdown (
.md): Clean Markdown documentation for GitHub or ticket trackers. - CSV Audit Summary (
.csv): Spreadsheet dataset with categories, statuses, impact levels, and recommendations. - JSON Raw Data (
.json): Structured data representation for developer integrations.