Read and Act on Your Site Health Audit

The Site Health Audit turns your crawl data into a scored technical checklist. It grades your site, lists prioritized fixes, and keeps a history so you can prove that problems were resolved. This guide explains how to read the audit and act on it.

Open the audit

1. Make sure your project has a completed crawl. The audit is built from your latest Crawl Explorer scan.
2. Open the Site Health Audit in the SEO section for your project.
3. Start on the Overview view to see your overall score and the highest-level summary of issues.

Understand the four views

The audit is organized into four views, each answering a different question:

• Overview — your health score and a top-level summary of what is passing and failing.
• Fixes — a prioritized list of issues to work through, ordered so the most impactful items come first.
• History — how your score and issues have changed across previous audits over time.
• Sitemaps — the state of your XML sitemaps and how they align with what was crawled.

Work the Fixes list

The Fixes view is where most of your time goes. It is already prioritized, so you do not have to guess what matters most.

1. Open Fixes and start at the top of the list.
2. Read each issue's description to understand what was detected and why it matters.
3. Use the affected pages to jump back into the underlying crawl data and confirm the problem on real URLs.
4. Make the change on your site — for example, adding a missing title, fixing a broken link, or correcting a canonical.

An issue should only be considered resolved once a fresh scan confirms the fix. Novaverb reflects the site as it actually is, so re-crawling is what turns a red item green.

Verify and track progress

Because every crawl is saved as a timestamped snapshot, the audit gives you an evidence trail, not just a to-do list.

1. After making fixes, re-run the crawl in Crawl Explorer.
2. Return to the audit and review the updated Overview score.
3. Open History to compare against earlier audits and confirm the score moved in the right direction.

Check your sitemaps

The Sitemaps view helps you confirm that the pages you want indexed are actually listed and reachable.

• Look for pages that are crawled but missing from your sitemap.
• Look for sitemap entries that no longer resolve or are not indexable.
• Align the two so search engines get a clean, accurate map of your site.

Build a routine

Treat the audit as a recurring cycle rather than a one-time cleanup: crawl, review the Overview, work the Fixes list top-down, then re-crawl to verify. Over time the History view becomes a documented record of a healthier site — evidence you can keep and share.