14 step-by-step guides on every screen in RankAudit — from setting up your first crawl to reading the issue priority matrix, fixing Core Web Vitals, analysing internal links, and generating white-label reports for clients.
Every panel, every button, every workflow — explained with the exact navigation path and UI labels.
How to add a project, set the crawl scope (domain/subfolder/sitemap), configure crawl depth, exclude URLs via regex, and trigger your first crawl from the Projects dashboard.
Guide 01The 4-severity issue grid (Critical/High/Medium/Low) — how RankAudit scores each issue, the effort vs. impact weighting, and how to use the Priority Queue to work through fixes in the right order.
Guide 03LCP, CLS, and INP readings per URL — how to read the distribution charts, which URLs are dragging your overall score, and the fix-path links that open the relevant audit detail.
Guide 05The internal link graph view — how to read link equity flow, identify orphaned pages, find pages with too few inbound links, and export the link matrix for dev handoff.
Guide 07Per-URL on-page scoring across 18 signals — title, H1, meta, content length, keyword density, image alt text, structured data presence, and canonical tag status.
Guide 09How to generate a branded PDF audit report — logo, colours, custom intro text, issue selection per section, and scheduling automated monthly reports for agency clients.
Guide 14New users: start with Guide 01. Agencies: Guide 14 (white-label reports) is your priority read.
How to open Projects → New Project, enter your domain, configure crawl scope (domain/subfolder/sitemap URL), set crawl depth and speed, exclude URL patterns, and trigger the first crawl.
The 6 dashboard panels explained — Issues Summary, Health Score trend, Crawl Stats, Top Issues by category, Pages Crawled timeline, and the Quick Wins card that surfaces the 3 highest-impact fixes.
How the 4-severity levels (Critical/High/Medium/Low) are assigned, the effort vs. impact weighting behind the Priority Queue, and how to use the filter controls to focus on one category at a time.
How to trigger a manual recrawl, set automatic weekly/monthly recrawl schedules, compare two crawls side by side in the History view, and read the Issue Delta chart.
How to open the CWV panel, read LCP/CLS/INP per URL, identify the worst-performing pages, use the fix-path links that open the relevant page detail, and re-test after changes.
The Broken Pages view — filtering by status code (404, 410, 500, 301, 302), the inbound link count column, bulk-export for dev handoff, and how to use the redirect chain detector.
The internal link graph — reading link equity flow between pages, identifying orphaned pages (zero inbound internal links), pages with only 1 inbound link, and exporting the link matrix.
How the duplicate content detector groups near-duplicate pages, the canonical tag status column (self-referencing/pointing-elsewhere/missing), and how to use the bulk canonical fix export.
The per-URL on-page score — 18 signals across title, H1, meta description, content length, keyword density, image alt text, structured data, and canonical. How to expand any URL for the full breakdown.
How to open the Schema Checker, run the parser on any URL, read the required vs. recommended property checklist, identify NAP conflicts, and interpret the Schema Score (target 80+).
The Indexation panel — noindex tags, robots.txt disallow rules, canonical conflicts, and the Crawlability Score. How to use the robots.txt tester and the sitemap validator inside RankAudit.
How RankAudit pulls Google PageSpeed Insights data per URL, the mobile vs. desktop toggle, the opportunity breakdown (render-blocking, image compression, unused JS), and how to prioritise fixes.
The agency portfolio view — switching between projects, the comparative Health Score grid, sorting by worst score, last-crawled date column, and setting per-client crawl schedules.
How to open Reports → Create Audit Report, configure the white-label branding panel (logo, colours, custom intro), select which issue sections to include, and set up a Scheduled Report for automatic monthly delivery.
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