Site Audit

Website Audit

Instructions

Perform a comprehensive audit of the website covering:

1. Broken Links Check

Search for internal links and verify targets exist:

# Find all internal links in .qmd files
grep -rh '\[.*\](' --include="*.qmd" | grep -oP '\]\(\K[^)]+' | grep -v '^http' | sort -u

Check that referenced files exist:

• Images in content
• PDF downloads
• Internal page links

2. Frontmatter Validation

Verify all content files have required frontmatter:

Blog posts (posts/*/index.qmd):

• title
• author
• date
• categories
• description

Publications (publications/*/index.qmd):

• title
• author
• date
• venue or categories

Projects (projects/*/index.qmd):

• title
• description
• date
• categories

3. SEO Checks

• All pages have description in frontmatter
• Descriptions are under 160 characters
• Images have alt text
• _quarto.yml has site-url configured
• Open Graph metadata is present

4. Accessibility Review

• Images have descriptive alt text
• Heading hierarchy is correct (no skipped levels)
• Links have descriptive text (not "click here")
• Color contrast is sufficient
• Forms have labels (if any)

5. Content Quality

• No draft posts published (draft: false or missing)
• No placeholder/Lorem ipsum text
• Dates are not in the future
• External links are valid (spot check)

6. Technical Checks

• quarto render completes without errors
• No files in _site/ committed to git
• CNAME file exists for custom domain
• .gitignore excludes build artifacts

Audit Commands

# Check for missing descriptions
grep -rL "description:" posts/*/index.qmd

# Find images without alt text
grep -rn '!\[' --include="*.qmd" | grep '!\[\]'

# Check for draft posts
grep -rn "draft: true" --include="*.qmd"

# List all external links
grep -rhoP 'https?://[^\s)>"]+' --include="*.qmd" | sort -u

# Find large images
find . -type f \( -name "*.png" -o -name "*.jpg" \) -size +500k

Report Format

After audit, provide a summary:

## Audit Summary

### Critical Issues
- Issue 1...
- Issue 2...

### Warnings
- Warning 1...
- Warning 2...

### Recommendations
- Suggestion 1...
- Suggestion 2...

### Stats
- Total pages: X
- Blog posts: X
- Publications: X
- Projects: X
- Images: X