Scout Site Audit Free
Free, no signup. Crawl up to 150 exact-origin HTML pages, then check response status and headers for up to 100 exact-origin assets. Group raw-HTML SEO findings, inspect affected URLs, and export Pages, Links, Redirects, Assets, or Issues CSVs.
Manual URL seeds and local watchlists
Configurations and up to ten previous run summaries stay in this browser. Nothing runs on a schedule or in the background. Do not put secrets in URLs.
Checks run from our server; we fetch the URL you enter and don't keep the results. Up to 150 public HTML pages and status/header evidence for up to 100 exact-origin assets are retrieved through bounded, rate-limited proxies. Asset bodies are cancelled and never retained. Results stay in this browser unless you export them. Anonymous run-level outcome counters may be used for aggregate research; URLs, domains, IPs, and identifiers are never included, and no statistic is released below 100 runs.
Sample report Static report-shape example
82/100 raw-HTML site score
Crawled 24 of 31 discovered URLs (partial — page cap or policy exclusions would be named here).
title/missing · warn · 2 affected · checked on 24/24
Not evaluated: rendered JavaScript and AI checks.
This is illustrative output, not an audit of a real site and not a search-engine score.
How to use it
- Enter an HTTPS root, or an XML sitemap and select the sitemap option.
- Complete the anti-abuse check and start the bounded page crawl and asset-status phase.
- Read page and asset coverage separately, then expand issue rows.
- Export Pages, Links, Redirects, Assets, or Issues CSV evidence, print, or save a bounded snapshot.
- Use Page Report for a deeper single URL; Smart JS and Full Render are the rendered tiers.
Current target
Recent checks appear below. Use the star beside any saved site, page, or list to favorite it.
Create a named list
Target filled from your local choices.
Site passport Local context for this saved site
Local data
Saved targets, named lists, and recent check summaries remain only in this browser.
Audit dashboard
Affected share uses detector-page pairs where each check had enough evidence. Crawl depth uses the bounded pages observed in this run.
Issues by category
Crawl depth
Segment × issue matrix
Cells show observed affected URLs inside each inferred URL cohort. A zero means no finding was observed in the bounded cohort, not that every possible check passed.
Site-wide and asset findings
These findings depend on relationships across pages, crawl inventory, or asset responses, so they appear before the page-detector ledger.
Audit comparison
Detector changes
Inferred cohort changes
Pages
Links
Redirects
Assets
Page checks by category
Problems is the default view. All checks adds passes, notices, and checks that lacked enough evidence.
Scout only scores evidence-backed problems whose likely intent and consequence can be established from this bounded raw-HTML crawl. Configuration choices, informational opportunities, uncertain intent, and missing evidence stay visible without becoming penalties. “Not evaluated” never means “passed.”
Outside this tier: rendered JavaScript, authenticated pages, and AI checks are intentionally not run. Smart JS and Full Render are the rendered tiers.
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What the results mean
- Coverage — completed pages versus discovered inventory, with caps, aborts, exclusions, and trap sampling exposed.
- Severity — detector-level pass/warn/fail prioritization.
- Affected — pages with a non-pass finding among the pages where that detector ran.
- Not checked / unavailable — missing evidence or deliberately excluded detector classes.
- Cross-page findings — issues requiring crawl inventory or link relationships rather than one page.
How it works
A protected queue crawls exact-origin HTTPS pages from a root or bounded sitemap inventory, checks robots policy, normalizes discovered links, and caps trap patterns. Each usable raw response becomes a page record for deterministic detectors. The rollup preserves evaluation coverage and creates exportable issue evidence.
Features
- Up to 150 fetched raw-HTML pages plus 100 status-only asset checks with abort support.
- Root or sitemap seeding, robots checks, crawl-trap guards, and bounded asset extraction.
- Grouped page, cross-page, and asset findings with separate coverage.
- Pages, Links, Redirects, Assets, and Issues CSVs plus printable and comparable bounded snapshots.
Limitations
The crawl is bounded, raw-HTML only, and exact-origin; it cannot prove full site coverage or orphan status from a root crawl. Asset checks do not download or analyze file bodies, calculate transferred bytes, or evaluate third-party resources. Scout does not render JavaScript, honor crawl-delay, authenticate, run AI checks, call GSC, or emulate a search crawler’s index. Security findings are conservative review prompts, not proof that a site is exploitable.
Frequently asked questions
How many pages and assets does Scout Site Audit Free check?
It fetches up to 150 exact-origin HTML pages, then runs status-only checks for up to 100 exact-origin HTTPS assetsHTTPS is the encrypted version of HTTP — it uses TLS to authenticate the server and protect data in transit between a browser and a website. Google announced it as a lightweight ranking signal in 2014 and today conditionally prefers HTTPS pages as canonical; Chrome marks plain HTTP pages 'Not Secure.' extracted from complete raw HTML. Page and asset coverage are reported separately.
Does the audit render JavaScript?
No. Findings use fetched raw HTML. JavaScript-rendered content and links are explicitly not evaluated.
Does it obey robots.txt?
The page crawlerA crawler — also called a spider or bot — is an automated program that fetches web pages, extracts their links, and queues new URLs to visit. Search engines use crawlers to discover and download content for their index. applies Allow and Disallow rules for its crawl policy. This tool does not honor crawl-delayCrawl-delay is a non-standard robots.txt directive that asks bots to wait between successive page fetches to ease server load. Google has ignored it since September 1, 2019 and Yandex dropped it on February 22, 2018; Bing and many other crawlers still honor it, but Bing interprets the value differently than the plain reading., which it states in the scope note.
What is the raw-HTML site score?
It is a technical condition score derived from the impact and affected scale of evaluated, score-eligible page issues in the bounded sample. Asset findings are reported separately. It is not a Google score or a complete measure of site quality.
Can I compare audits over time?
Yes. Export a bounded local JSON snapshot and import it after another run. Coverage shifts can affect the comparison.
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Common issues & how to fix them
- Error Title is missing Fix: Add a concise, unique title that describes the page, then rerun the check.
- Warning H1 is missing Fix: Add one descriptive H1 that states the page’s primary topic, then rerun the analysis.
- Warning Non-navigational links are present Fix: Replace empty, hash-only, or javascript links with real destination URLs; use buttons for actions that do not navigate.
- Warning Images lack alt attributes Fix: Add concise alternative text that communicates each meaningful image’s purpose.
- Information Low visible text volume Fix: Review whether the observed text is complete for the page’s purpose. Add useful information only when something material is missing; do not pad the word count.
- Error Page returns a non-200 response Fix: Restore an intended live page to 200, or update internal links to the correct final URL.
- Error Page is blocked from indexing Fix: Remove noindex from pages meant to be indexed, or keep it only when exclusion is intentional.
- Error Canonical signals conflict Fix: Return one canonical URL and make HTML and HTTP Link canonical signals agree.
- Warning Meta description is missing Fix: Add a concise page-specific meta description to each affected template or page.
- Information Structured data is absent Fix: Add supported structured data only to pages whose visible content satisfies the markup requirements.