Past audits

Audits opens from See every audit on the Overview and lists what has run against this site, newest first. The latest audit sits at the top with how many pages it read against how many it found, such as "100 read · 93 not read this time" when it stopped at its page limit. <!-- example -->

What it records

Each entry names what ran, its state, when it finished, and a one-line result. A typical run leaves several entries behind, because an audit is nine steps and the steps are recorded separately:

• The crawl itself, with how many pages it read
• The link suggestions it generated, with how many
• The topic grouping, with how many pages went into how many topics

View details on any entry opens what it produced.

Using it

The honest use is answering whether a change actually worked.

You changed six titles a fortnight ago. The overview's Since your last audit line compares the two most recent audits, which may not be the two you care about. This list gives you the dates, so you know which audit was before the change and which was after, and whether anything else ran in between that might explain a move.

It is also where you check whether an audit actually completed. A run that stopped early says so here rather than quietly leaving stale figures on the overview.

When it is empty

Before the first audit there is nothing to show, and the page says so. Run one and the record starts.

Nothing here runs on its own

Every entry in this list was started by somebody. The audit is not on a timer.

Two things do happen overnight and are not audits: findings are re-checked, and Google Search Console syncs if it is connected. Neither re-reads your pages, so neither appears here as a crawl.

Where else the record shows up

The overview's Since your last audit line is the short version. The dashboard carries the health change too. This page is the long version, for when the short one is not enough.

Where to go next

Running the site audit explains what each step in the record does.