Technical SEO audit template

A lightweight technical SEO checklist you can run in a day: crawlability, indexation, canonicalization, and internal linking.

Jan 05, 2026performance-seoseo

Technical SEO audits don’t need to be 80-page PDFs to be useful. A practical audit surfaces the issues that block crawling, indexing, and performance—then turns them into a prioritized fix list.

If you want us to run it and implement: Performance SEO and Technical SEO.

Crawlability

  • Robots.txt is present and intentional
  • XML sitemap exists and is current
  • Key templates are not blocked by robots/meta

Indexation & canonicalization

  • Canonicals are correct and consistent
  • No mass duplicate pages (parameters, filters, near-duplicates)
  • Proper use of noindex (and not on pages you care about)

Site architecture & internal linking

  • Important pages are reachable within 3–4 clicks
  • Navigation supports discovery (not just aesthetics)
  • Related pages link to each other logically (services ↔ case studies ↔ blog)

Performance baseline

  • Mobile Lighthouse snapshot
  • Identify the top 3 weight offenders (images, JS, third-party)
  • Confirm Core Web Vitals status in real-user data if available

Deliverable: a prioritized fix list

Your audit is “done” when:

  • Each issue has an owner
  • Each issue has an expected impact
  • Each issue has a verification method

Related: Building high-performance web apps.

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