Using Semrush for Technical SEO Site Audits
Run comprehensive site audits with Semrush. Find crawl errors, broken links, duplicate content, and Core Web Vitals issues.
Overview
Semrush's Site Audit tool crawls your website and identifies over 140 types of technical SEO issues — from broken links and duplicate content to slow page speed and crawlability problems. It prioritizes issues by impact and provides fix recommendations.
Benefits
Why use Semrush for site audits?
Detects 140+ technical SEO issues including crawl errors, broken links, and redirect chains
Health Score metric (0-100) tracks your site's overall technical health over time
Thematic reports group issues by category: crawlability, HTTPS, performance, internal linking
Scheduled re-crawls track whether fixes are working and catch new issues
How it works
Getting started
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Go to Projects → Site Audit and enter your domain
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Configure crawl settings: page limit, crawl speed, and URL exclusions
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Run the audit and wait for the crawl to complete
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Review the health score and prioritize errors (red) over warnings (orange) and notices (blue)
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Fix issues starting with the highest-impact errors and re-crawl to verify
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