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Technical SEO Audit Service

Real diagnostics, not a 200-page export of the Screaming Frog default report. We crawl your site, validate every schema block, run Core Web Vitals against field data, check hreflang for bidirectional symmetry, and hand you a prioritised fix plan any developer can execute.

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What a Real Technical SEO Audit Should Find

A technical SEO audit is supposed to find the structural problems that prevent your site from ranking — the gap between "Google is crawling your pages" and "Google considers them indexable, fast, and trustworthy." Most audits on the market today are a Screaming Frog export with a logo and a summary paragraph. The fixable problems are buried under hundreds of low-severity warnings, the high-severity issues are not separated from the noise, and there is no implementation plan.

Our audits diagnose the ten things that actually move rankings on modern sites: server-rendered HTML quality, JavaScript-rendered content visibility, internal link distribution, canonical correctness, hreflang bidirectional pairing, schema validity (not just presence), Core Web Vitals from real-user field data not lab synthetic, sitemap freshness, robots.txt and crawl budget waste, and the indexability mismatch between what your sitemap claims and what Google has actually indexed (Coverage report cross-check).

Every finding gets a severity (Critical / High / Medium / Low), a specific file or URL it applies to, and an estimated implementation effort in developer-hours. You can hand the deliverable to any developer — your in-house team, your existing agency, or us — and they have everything they need to start fixing tomorrow.

We run the audit using a combination of in-house tools (our own `seo:validate` framework, see our Core Web Vitals playbook), Screaming Frog or Sitebulb for the crawl, Google Search Console for index reality, PageSpeed Insights for field data, and the Rich Results / Schema validators for structured data. The output is a single Notion document or PDF, not a slide deck.

What's Checked

Every Audit Covers These 30 Diagnostics

Same checklist every time. We never skip items to fit a timeline — if the audit takes longer than scoped, we eat the time.

Crawlability

robots.txt rules, crawl-blocked resources, sitemap reachable, render-blocking JS for the bot.

Indexability

noindex misuse, canonical chains, parameter URL handling, faceted nav indexation.

Index coverage reality

Search Console Coverage report cross-checked against sitemap (the gap is the problem).

Hreflang correctness

Bidirectional pairing, valid language_TERRITORY codes, x-default presence, sitemap inclusion.

Canonical tags

Self-referencing, absolute URL, consistency between HTML / HTTP header / sitemap.

Sitemap quality

lastmod accuracy, changefreq honesty, priority distribution, empty-sitemap detection.

Schema markup

Org / Service / Article / FAQPage / Product / Review validity in Google Rich Results.

Heading hierarchy

One H1, semantic H2/H3, no skipped levels.

Meta titles + descriptions

Length, uniqueness, keyword fit, truncation risk.

Open Graph / Twitter cards

Image dimensions, locale format, share-card render check.

Core Web Vitals — lab

Lighthouse on three representative pages, mobile + desktop.

Core Web Vitals — field

CrUX 28-day rolling data, segmented by device and country.

LCP element analysis

What is the LCP element, is it preloaded, is it the right size.

INP traces

Long Tasks during interaction, third-party script weight.

CLS sources

Late-injecting elements, image dimensions, font-swap CLS.

Internal link distribution

Pages with zero inbound internal links (orphans), pages with excessive (over-emphasis).

Anchor text variety

Generic anchors ("click here"), exact-match over-optimisation, descriptive anchor coverage.

Render comparison

HTML view-source vs rendered DOM — content gap on JS-rendered sites.

Mobile usability

Tap-target size, font-size, viewport, layout breakage at 320-414px.

HTTPS + redirects

Trailing slash, www/non-www, http→https, redirect chains > 1 hop.

HSTS + security headers

HSTS preload eligibility, X-Frame-Options, CSP (informational), Referrer-Policy.

Image SEO

Alt text coverage, modern formats (WebP/AVIF), correct dimensions, lazy-loading.

Broken links

Internal 4xx/5xx, internal redirects, outbound dead links.

Pagination

rel=prev/next (deprecated but still informative), faceted pagination, parameter handling.

robots meta + X-Robots-Tag

HTTP header consistency with HTML meta robots.

Sitemap submission

Search Console submission status, last crawled date, processing errors.

llms.txt and AI crawler readiness

Presence of llms.txt, robots.txt allow-list for GPTBot/ClaudeBot/PerplexityBot.

Duplicate content

On-site near-duplicates (>80% similarity), boilerplate vs unique content ratio.

Thin content detection

Pages under 300 words, doorway-page risk, programmatic-page uniqueness audit.

Page speed gap (lab vs field)

Documenting how much real-user experience differs from lab numbers.

Deliverable

What You Get at the End

One document. Ranked findings. Actionable plan. Re-validatable.

Executive summary

One page with the headline findings and the expected impact in plain language. For non-technical stakeholders.

Findings register

Every issue with severity (Critical/High/Medium/Low), exact URL/file, evidence (screenshot or response excerpt), and estimated dev-hours.

Prioritised fix plan

Phased: this week, next sprint, next quarter. Each phase is independently shippable.

Implementation hints

Specific code-level guidance. Where useful, the exact diff or Blade snippet (we do not turn it into a vague "ask your developer" item).

Schema reference

Every JSON-LD block on your site catalogued with validation status.

Re-test methodology

How to verify each fix is working — Search Console reports to watch, validators to re-run, expected timeline for CrUX to refresh.

90-day monitoring plan

What to watch in Search Console, expected ranking timeline, regression triggers.

Process

2-3 Week Audit, From Brief to Re-Test Plan

Most clients have the deliverable in their inbox 14 calendar days after kick-off.

Day 0

Kick-off call (45 min). Access provisioning to GSC, GA4, hosting / staging.

Day 1-2

Full crawl with Screaming Frog/Sitebulb. CrUX field data pulled. Search Console data extracted.

Day 3-5

Manual review of the 10-20 most important templates. Render-comparison on JS-heavy sites. Schema validation.

Day 6-8

Findings catalogued, severity assigned, fix plan drafted.

Day 9-10

Internal QA — another team member reviews the audit for missed issues, severity calibration, and clarity.

Day 11-12

Final document drafted, exec summary written, delivery call scheduled.

Day 13-14

Walk-through call (60 min). You ask questions. We update the doc with any open items.

Pricing

Single-domain audits start at AED 6,600 (~$1,800) for sites under 500 URLs. Mid-size sites (500-10,000 URLs) land at AED 14,000-22,000. Enterprise / ecommerce with faceted nav and large product catalogs are quoted per-scope. Audit-only engagement — implementation is a separate project we are happy to quote.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Technical SEO Audit — Common Questions

Free tools (Semrush Site Audit, Ahrefs Site Audit, Google Search Console Coverage) catch a subset of issues and surface them with no severity calibration. The audit you can buy from us layers human review on top: which findings actually matter for your site, which are noise, what the implementation effort is, and what to fix first. Our deliverable is a fix plan, not a list of warnings.
Optionally yes, as a separate fixed-price project. The audit is a stand-alone deliverable — you can implement in-house, hand to your existing agency, or hire us. Pricing for implementation is quoted based on the actual finding count and severity from the audit.
Audits start at any size. Under 100 URLs the audit is faster and cheaper; over 10,000 URLs we add sampling methodology to keep the work scoped. The biggest factor is template complexity, not URL count — a 200-page WordPress site with one template is faster than a 50-page SaaS app with twelve distinct route patterns.
Yes — render-comparison (HTML view-source vs rendered DOM) is a standard check. Most JS-rendered sites have a content visibility gap somewhere; we surface it.
We update the checklist every quarter. The most recent additions: INP replacing FID (March 2024), AI crawler allow-list (GPTBot etc.), llms.txt convention, hreflang validators in Search Console deprecated, App Router SSR vs RSC trade-offs for Next.js sites.
Google Search Console (Owner or Restricted role on the property), Google Analytics 4 (Read access on the property), hosting or repo access for any code-level findings (read-only sufficient). All access can be revoked when the audit closes.
Not directly — the audit identifies what is in the way. Implementation removes the blockers. Most sites see Search Console impressions and CrUX scores improve within 4-8 weeks of implementing the Critical and High findings; ranking moves typically follow in months 2-4. We never promise ranking outcomes from an audit alone.
Yes and we recommend it. Pre-launch audits catch issues before they hit the index — far cheaper than fixing them retroactively after Google has crawled them.
Yes as a separate engagement (typically 25-40% of the original audit price). The deliverable is a delta-audit: what was fixed, what improved in Search Console / CrUX, what residual issues remain.
No. Audit is a one-time deliverable. We do not offer ongoing SEO retainers — we offer fixed-scope SEO sprints. See our <a href="https://webstackrank.com/services/no-retainer-seo-agency" style="color:var(--primary-2);">no-retainer SEO model</a>.