How to Run a Free Website SEO Audit

A useful SEO audit does not need fifty locked cards or a sales funnel. It needs clear signals you can act on: can crawlers reach the site, can they find your URLs, and does the homepage send healthy on-page and trust signals?

What SeoCheckup checks

Our free site audit pulls a single origin and reviews three groups:

On-page — title, meta description, H1, canonical, lang, charset, viewport, favicon, robots meta, Open Graph, Twitter tags, and JSON-LD presence.
Robots & sitemap — whether robots.txt loads, whether it declares Sitemap: lines, and whether an XML sitemap (or index) expands to real page URLs.
Trust & authority — HTTPS, common security headers, and Ahrefs Domain Rating from the free public endpoint.

We intentionally skip PageSpeed / Lighthouse in this free audit. Those need separate performance APIs and often muddy a crawlability report.

How to run it

Open the Site Audit tool.
Paste your homepage URL (or try https://shrix1.com).
Read Fix first — fails and warnings sorted by severity.
Expand categories for full values (nothing is paywalled).
Use Copy report if you want to paste findings into an LLM or ticket.

How to prioritize fixes

Fails first — missing title, noindex on a public homepage, unreachable robots.txt, or a broken sitemap block discovery.
Warnings next — short descriptions, missing HSTS, absent JSON-LD. Useful, but rarely as urgent as crawl blockers.
Deep-link tools — jump into Sitemap, Metadata, Robots, or Domain Rating for a closer look.

FAQ

Is a free audit enough for enterprise SEO?

It is a strong first pass for technical hygiene. Large sites still need crawl logs, Search Console, and content quality reviews.

Will the audit crawl every page?

No. It audits the homepage HTML plus robots/sitemap discovery. That is enough to catch most “site is uncrawlable” mistakes without a multi-hour crawl.

Is Domain Rating required for a good score?

No. DR is one trust signal. A brand-new site can still pass on-page and crawl checks with a low DR.