searchfit Technical SEO Audit
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Technical SEO Checklist
1. Crawlability
robots.txt
- File exists at
/robots.txt - Not blocking important pages or resources (CSS, JS, images)
- Sitemap URL is referenced
- User-agent rules are correct
- No accidental
Disallow: /blocking everything
XML Sitemap
- Exists at
/sitemap.xml(or referenced in robots.txt) - Includes all important pages
- Excludes noindex pages, redirects, and 404s
- Uses correct
<lastmod>dates - Not exceeding 50,000 URLs per sitemap (use sitemap index if needed)
- Proper XML formatting
Crawl Directives
- Check
<meta name="robots">tags on each page - Verify
X-Robots-TagHTTP headers - Check canonical URLs — self-referencing and cross-domain
- No conflicting directives (e.g., canonical + noindex)
2. Indexation
Status Codes
- Important pages return
200 - Removed pages return
410(not soft 404) - Redirected pages use
301(permanent), not302(temporary) - No redirect chains or loops
- No
5xxerrors
Duplicate Content
- Canonical tags prevent duplicate indexing
- URL parameters handled (trailing slashes, www vs non-www, http vs https)
- Pagination uses
rel="next/prev"or canonical to main page - No thin pages with near-identical content
3. Site Speed & Performance
Core Web Vitals
- LCP (Largest Contentful Paint): < 2.5s
- INP (Interaction to Next Paint): < 200ms
- CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift): < 0.1
Performance Checks
- Images optimized (WebP/AVIF, lazy loaded, sized correctly)
- CSS and JS minified and compressed (gzip/brotli)
- No render-blocking resources above the fold
- Font loading optimized (
font-display: swap) - Third-party scripts deferred or async
- Server response time (TTFB) < 200ms
- CDN configured for static assets
- HTTP/2 or HTTP/3 enabled
- Browser caching headers set
Next.js / React Specific
- Server Components used for static content (not "use client" everywhere)
- Dynamic imports for heavy components
- Image component used (
next/image) - Route prefetching configured
- Bundle size analyzed (no unnecessary dependencies)
4. Mobile
- Responsive design (viewport meta tag present)
- No horizontal scrolling
- Touch targets adequately sized (44x44px min)
- Text readable without zooming (16px+ body font)
- No intrusive interstitials
- Mobile-first CSS approach
5. Security
- HTTPS everywhere (no mixed content)
- HTTP → HTTPS redirect in place
- HSTS header configured
- No exposed sensitive files (
.env,.git, etc.) - Content Security Policy headers
6. Structured Data
- JSON-LD schema markup present on key pages
- Schema validates (no errors in Google Rich Results Test)
- Schema types match page content
- Required properties are populated
7. International SEO (if applicable)
hreflangtags for multi-language content- Language-specific URLs or subdirectories
- Correct
langattribute on<html>tag - No machine translation without human review flags
8. URL Structure
- Clean, descriptive URLs (no query parameter soup)
- Consistent URL patterns across the site
- Lowercase URLs (no mixed case)
- Hyphens for word separation (not underscores)
- Shallow URL depth (max 3-4 levels)
- No special characters or spaces
Audit Process
For Codebases
- Check configuration files (next.config, robots.txt, sitemap generation)
- Analyze page components for SEO elements
- Review middleware and redirect rules
- Check image handling and optimization
- Analyze bundle size and dependencies
- Review server vs client component usage
For Live Websites
- Fetch and analyze robots.txt and sitemap
- Check HTTP headers and status codes
- Analyze page load performance
- Check mobile rendering
- Validate structured data
- Test key user journeys for technical issues
Output Format
## Technical SEO Audit Report
**Site**: [domain or project]
**Score**: [0-100]/100
### Crawlability: [score]/100
- [Finding with file/URL reference]
### Indexation: [score]/100
- [Finding with file/URL reference]
### Performance: [score]/100
- [Finding with file/URL reference]
### Mobile: [score]/100
- [Finding with file/URL reference]
### Security: [score]/100
- [Finding with file/URL reference]
### Priority Fixes
1. **[Critical]** [Issue] — [How to fix]
2. **[High]** [Issue] — [How to fix]
3. **[Medium]** [Issue] — [How to fix]
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