SEOquake Audit Checks

SEOquake’s Audit checks the page you’re viewing against technical and on-page SEO signals.

In the Full Report, the Audit panel includes 28 checks organized into four categories: Page Analysis, Mobile Compliance, Technical Compliance, and Social.

Quick View shows a condensed version of the same audit. You can also select “Audit” in SEObar to open the Audit panel in Full Report.

This guide explains what each check evaluates so you can understand your audit results. Use it when a warning is unclear or when you need to identify the specific element SEOquake is flagging.

For a full-site crawl, use Semrush Site Audit instead.

How SEOquake Audit Statuses Work

Each audit check shows one of four status labels:

• Passed: The expected signal is present and looks correct
• Warning: The result needs a closer look, but isn’t always a critical issue
• Error: The signal is missing, blocked, invalid, or failed
• Pending: SEOquake is still fetching network data for this check. This is common while robots.txt, sitemap, response headers, HTTPS, or link status data loads in the background.

Passed, warning, and error checks are counted together in the audit overview. Pending checks update once the background fetch completes.

Page Analysis Checks

Page Analysis covers the content and HTML signals SEOs usually check first:

• Title Tag: Checks for a title tag and flags issues with its length
• Meta Description: Confirms the meta description is present and within a reasonable length
• ALT Attributes: Reports image alt text coverage on the page
• Text/HTML Ratio: Compares the amount of visible text against the page’s HTML
• Heading Structure: Maps the H1–H6 outline for any page
• URL: Flags avoidable length or structure issues in the current URL
• Keyword Density: Summarizes the most-used words and phrases on the page
• Internal Links: Reviews same-site links and can flag broken or redirected ones when status data is available

Mobile Compliance Checks

Mobile Compliance is a short section covering two basic rendering signals.

• Viewport Meta Tag: Reviews the page’s viewport meta tag, which controls how the page scales and renders on mobile devices
• Responsive Design: Combines the viewport result with responsive breakpoint signals detected on the page. It checks key templates at common mobile widths to ensure text, navigation, images, and tap targets remain usable without horizontal scrolling.

Technical Compliance Checks

Technical Compliance covers crawl, index, protocol, response, and implementation signals.

Three checks use network data and may briefly show “Pending” while SEOquake fetches them:

• HTTP Status: Reports the page’s response code from network data
• XML Sitemap: Checks for sitemap information
• Robots.txt: Indicates whether robots.txt allows the current URL, using labels like pending, blocked, error, missing, and allowed

The remaining checks review page-level directives, response headers, and technical setup:

• Meta Robots: Reviews robots directives in the page HTML
• HTTPS: Reports whether the page is served over HTTPS
• X-Robots-Tag: Reads robots directives sent in response headers
• Mixed Content: Flags insecure HTTP resources on HTTPS pages
• HSTS: Shows HTTP Strict Transport Security status
• Page Size: Uses SEOquake’s page data to show page size
• Canonical: Reviews canonical tags and canonical URL usability
• Language Declaration: Reports the page’s declared language
• Favicon: Reports whether SEOquake detects a favicon
• Schema.org Markup: Lists structured data found on the page
• Hreflang: Reviews hreflang annotations when they are present
• Google Analytics: Identifies Google Analytics or Google Tag Manager signals
• Noindex Tag: Flags noindex directives found through Meta Robots or X-Robots-Tag

Social Checks

Social checks review the metadata used when a page is shared on social platforms:

• Open Graph: Looks for Open Graph tags
• Twitter Card: Looks for Twitter Card tags

Expanded Audit Sections

Below the 28-check overview, the report includes expanded sections that give you more detail for the areas that usually need a closer look:

• Heading Structure: Opens the full H1–H6 hierarchy
• Image Analysis: Shows image counts, alt text coverage, and oversized image findings
• Format Distribution: Shows detected image formats
• Schema: Shows structured data formats and Schema.org types
• Open Graph Tags: Lists detected Open Graph metadata
• Twitter Card Tags: Lists detected Twitter Card metadata
• Social Share Preview: Shows how the page’s social metadata may appear when shared

The export option saves the audit as a PDF.

When to Use Semrush Site Audit

SEOquake’s Audit focuses on one page at a time. That’s ideal when you’re reviewing a specific page (or a competitor’s), but it’s not designed to crawl an entire site at once.

Semrush Site Audit is the better fit when you need to crawl a full website, track issues across multiple URLs, or monitor technical SEO fixes over time.

In SEObar, you can view existing Site Audit results for the page you’re viewing when a matching campaign in your connected Semrush account has crawled it. SEOquake still does not run the full-site crawl.