How to understand your audit score
After a Full Site Audit, SEO Roger gives your site a health score. This article explains what the score represents and how to raise it.
What the score measures
The audit score is a weighted summary of the issues found across all 11 audit modules. It reflects how healthy your site is from an SEO and technical standpoint, on a scale where higher is better. The score considers:
- Number of issues found on your site.
- Severity of each issue (critical issues weigh more than minor ones).
- Coverage across categories like crawlability, on-page, security, and performance.
Because severity is weighted, fixing a few critical problems usually moves your score more than fixing many small ones.
Severity levels
- Critical — issues that can block indexing or seriously harm rankings, such as broken canonical tags or pages returning error status codes.
- Warnings — issues worth fixing that aren't emergencies, like missing meta descriptions or thin content.
- Notices — minor or informational items to review when you have time.
How to improve your score
- Sort issues by severity and tackle critical items first.
- Open each issue to see the affected pages and the recommended fix.
- Apply fixes directly, or use the WordPress companion plugin for one-click remediation where available.
- Re-run the audit to confirm the issue is resolved and watch your score rise.
Tracking progress over time
Every audit is saved to your Analysis History. Use the dated compare feature to see how your score has changed between runs. This is the best way to prove the impact of your work and spot regressions early.
A note on interpretation
A perfect score isn't always realistic or necessary. Some flagged items may not apply to your site or business model. Focus on the issues that affect real users and search engines, and treat the score as a directional health signal rather than an absolute grade.
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