SV Preliminary Audit
Check your website’s technical foundations before your next SEO move. Get a focused report with 16 checks, priority findings, and a clearer next step.
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A real interface example, not a promised score for your website.
A focused technical starting point
Preliminary Audit organizes its findings around crawl access, URL consistency, security, and speed—so you can see where the next investigation belongs.
01 / Discoverability
Review crawlability, robots.txt, sitemap availability, and blocking meta tags. Identify technical conditions that may need attention before search engines can reach your content.
Can your content be reached?02 / Consistency
Check URL validation, the effective destination, URL matching, and canonical tags. See whether your site points consistently toward its intended URLs.
Is the destination consistent?03 / Accessibility
Review HTTPS/SSL access and redirect consistency across URL variants. Bring specific access or redirect findings to your developer or hosting team.
Does secure access work?04 / Responsiveness
Check raw homepage load speed as an initial signal. Use it to decide whether a deeper performance investigation should be your next step.
Does loading need a closer look?A preliminary technical snapshot—not an exhaustive crawl of every page, a full performance audit, or a measurement of your brand’s AI visibility.
From the score to the specific finding
Move from the overview to the individual checks. The detailed report shows each check, its score, the finding, and a status such as Critical, Improve, or Good.
A strong overall score is not an all-clear. Review individual findings before deciding what can wait.
Use “Fix these first” in the overview, then inspect the detailed results. Filters let you focus on all checks, items needing attention, or passing checks.
Use the findings to brief a fix, explore a relevant SV tool, or discuss the work with a specialist.
Confirm access and redirect issues with your technical team before making changes.
Secure access to the website.
Agreement across redirect destinations.
Validation of the submitted URL.
The URL reached after redirects.
A preliminary crawl and indexability assessment.
Page-level directives that may restrict indexing.
The page’s declared preferred URL.
A basic homepage loading measurement.
Handling of the non-secure URL variant.
Handling of the non-secure www variant.
Handling of the secure www variant.
Consistency between the URLs being checked.
Validation of the homepage URL.
The site’s crawler-directives file.
A basic check of crawler accessibility.
Availability of a sitemap for the site.
Start with your website URL
Create a free account, or sign in to your existing one. Open Preliminary Audit in the platform.
Submit the website you want to review. The report brings the technical checks and priority findings into one place.
Review the findings, prepare a report or summary, and assign the next action. Run another audit after your changes.
The audit reports findings. You and your team stay in control of changes to your website.
For businesses, agencies & in-house teams
Give a client, developer, or teammate more than a score. Share the specific finding and agree on what needs to happen next.
Use the report/PDF control to prepare a fuller review for your client or project team.
Bring a concise summary into the conversation, then use the detailed findings to scope the work.
Practical tools for
your next website review.
After the technical check
The report’s next-step recommendations connect technical findings with a useful follow-up. Choose the route that fits the work—not simply another report.
Before your first audit
Know what Preliminary Audit helps you review—and when a different tool or a deeper investigation is the better next step.
Start with a free SV account to access Preliminary Audit. Check your dashboard for the features and usage available to your account. Managed SEO campaigns and specialist services are separate, optional choices.
No website plugin is needed for the preliminary URL check. Create an account, open Preliminary Audit, and enter the website URL you want to review.
This page describes the 16 checks shown in Preliminary Audit. Its speed check is raw load speed. Treat it as an initial technical review, not an exhaustive audit of every page or a full mobile and desktop performance assessment.
The report interface includes full-report/PDF and copy-summary controls. Use them to prepare your handoff. For agency-specific reporting or account-access questions, contact SV.
No. The score summarizes these technical checks; it is not a search-engine approval or a ranking promise. Review individual findings even when the overall score is strong. For a separate review of AI-content readiness, explore GEO Audit.
Start with the report’s “Fix these first” section. Verify critical access, HTTPS/SSL, and redirect findings with your developer or hosting team, address the relevant issues, and run another audit to review the result.
Start with Preliminary Audit
Bring your website URL. Find the technical questions worth answering before you invest in the next stage of growth.
