Check SEO Audits


SEO audits are a set of limited checks performed by Lighthouse to ensure the page is optimised for search engine results ranking. They are available for each Snapshot test, unless a test has been completed with partial results due to an error.

SEO audits tab for a Snapshot showing a grade of 25 out of 100 and listing audits in three categories: opportunities, diagnostics and passed audits.

The SEO audit category receives a score between 0 and 100, visible at the top of the audit section. Higher grading implies (but doesn’t guarantee) better search engine optimisation, which might also be affected by other factors, including Web Vitals performance.

SEO audit structure

SEO audits fall into the following categories:

  • Opportunities
  • Diagnostics
  • Passed audits

To ensure passing Lighthouse SEO audits, it’s essential to focus on the Opportunities and Diagnostics categories, outlining possible improvements to a given page. Each audit item includes:

  • Title (e.g.: Page isn’t blocked from indexing)
  • Audit description (e.g.: Search engines are unable to include your pages in search results if they don't have permission to crawl them.)
  • Additional details (optional, e.g.: list of HTML elements affected)

If an audit item features a table with more details, the table can be sorted by clicking on the column name.