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Understanding your first report

What each score means, and what the basic scan deliberately does not check.
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The basic scan reviews one page plus a small, rate-limited sample of the site around it. It is a useful indicator, not an audit — and the report says so at the top.

What the basic scan covers

  • Status and redirects: HTTP status, HTTPS and the full redirect path.

  • Indexability: Robots directives, canonical tags and sitemap discovery.

  • On-page signals: Titles, descriptions, heading structure and obvious duplication.

  • Links and images: Internal and external links, a broken-link sample, alt text and loading hints.

  • Structured data: Presence and parse errors.

  • Performance: PageSpeed data where quota allows, reported separately from field data.

What it does not cover

  • Full-site crawl: Only deep analysis crawls every page.

  • Keyword and backlink data: Those require a connected Search Console property or a licensed provider.

  • Competitive comparison: Competitor gap analysis is part of deep analysis.

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