2025 SEO Website Audit Trends

Every business that has its own official website, regardless of its size, the market niche it operates in, or the audience it targets, strives to launch good traffic from the target audience to this site. This can only be ensured if your resource is at the top of search results, optimally in the first 5 positions. The only tool that can ensure this and generate stable organic traffic to the site is comprehensive SEO promotion. But here you have to implement quite an impressive amount of work, and it will take a lot of time to see the first positive changes.

But how can you understand that you have done everything correctly, that the invested efforts and money will fully justify themselves and give the desired results. At this stage, an SEO audit of the site will provide significant assistance. It is a comprehensive check of the site for its compliance with the requirements of search engines. Based on the information received, it will be possible to remove factors that interfere with effective promotion and ensure excellent results at the end.

Practice shows that the most common mistake in this case is that many specialists mean exclusively a technical analysis of the site by SEO audit. Perhaps, such recommendations as writing certain rules in the robots.txt file, closing certain links via nofollow and performing other similar actions gave good results in practice a few years ago. But it is still important to understand that search algorithms are constantly changing and evolving. In parallel with this, they make adjustments to the basic requirements for sites. And today they are much broader than just the technical side.

Today's review will be devoted to such an issue as a comprehensive SEO audit of the site. We will tell you what tasks you can solve with its help and, in principle, why your resource needs it. Let's consider the current trends characteristic of this area in 2025 and the nuances that need to be implemented at each stage. The information provided will allow you to get your bearings in detail in this matter, assess the need for its implementation directly on your site and perform the upcoming work as professionally and without errors as possible.

Why does a site need an SEO audit?

The essence of an SEO audit is to check the site for its compliance with the current requirements of search engines. During it, it will be possible to identify obstacles that prevent the site from moving forward in search results, as well as identify a number of areas for subsequent growth and increased popularity. That is, after completing this work, you will receive a complete list of current errors, as well as those tasks that need to be solved, thereby ensuring the stable promotion of the site to the top of the search results. That is, this is your chance to improve the position of your resource in search results, as well as optimize promotion costs, minimize promotion efforts.

Here it is important to understand that each site on which its owner works, makes efforts to develop, will change. This is necessary to maintain its relevance, increase the benefits for the target audience, and ensure a stable influx of visitors. This means that most SEO audits should be carried out with a certain regularity. This is a kind of health check of your site and preventive measures that prevent sudden problems. The regularity and quality of SEO audits will be especially important for commercial sites, because this is where the online platform acts as a key source of customers and sales in general.

Each of you determines the frequency with which these works should be carried out independently, focusing on the specifics of your project. But if you do not delve too much into the nuances, then the recommended frequency should still be at least 2 times a year. Optimally, it is still optimal to do it once a quarter. Thanks to a regular and comprehensive SEO audit, you will be able to:

1. Identify weak points and growth points in your site promotion strategy. This will allow you to distribute available resources, including time and budget, as efficiently as possible, and also get the maximum result from the events you have launched. Experience shows that even minor but correct resource adjustments can yield not just good, but also quick results.
2. Respond promptly to all the changes that occur in search algorithms. If you analyze the work of Google and Yandex, you can see that the ranking algorithms here change very, very often. This is necessary in order to improve the quality of the search engine as a whole. Therefore, it is in your interests to constantly monitor these trends, because this is the only way to maintain your positions and maintain good traffic indicators to the site. That is, you will have to constantly make adjustments to your site based on the current requirements of search engines. Alternatively, one of the most important recent changes will be the need to increase website loading speed, as well as switch to the secure HTTPS protocol.
3. Remove existing problems with website indexing. If you see that there are problems with this issue, then it may well be that not all the pages you need are in the search engine index or, conversely, bots have added pages to the results that are undesirable for your business at the moment or in general. Alternatively, there are cases when service pages generated by your website engine, duplicates, are indexed.
4. Find obvious errors and fix them. You should not worry that such a problem will affect your website. If the resource is working, then with a high degree of probability you will encounter errors. They can occur even as a result of a simple update of the engine or the plugins used. By and large, not all programmers focus on the current requirements of SEO optimization when developing a site. Let's assume that it happens that, accidentally or out of necessity, changes are made to the URLs of pages that are important to you. This is guaranteed to provoke a decrease in their position in the search results. This can only be prevented by properly setting up redirects. And if you do this immediately when deliberately changing the page address, then with an accidental change you may not notice the problem at all, but an SEO audit will definitely show it.

As you can see, these works will really be useful for the site, in particular for its promotion to the top of search results and maintaining the positions occupied there. But everything is more global than it may seem at first glance.

The main advantages of regular SEO site audit

Now we will structure all this information that we have provided above a little and highlight a number of key advantages that are characteristic of a high-quality and comprehensive SEO audit of an Internet site. In particular, we are talking about the following points:

• identification of technical errors, problems with the text and graphic content of the site, its structure, as well as other factors that worsen the intensity of promotion;
• determination of potential growth points, which is due to the identification of those points where you have a chance to improve the visibility of the site in search results, increase conversion rates, traffic to the resource;
• optimization of material resources for site promotion: you will see the most promising areas for promotion and invest money in them, while minimizing waste;
• bypassing your closest competitors due to the fastest possible detection and elimination of errors on your platform, thereby ensuring its effective promotion;
• the ability to assess the quality of work of all those specialists who are working on the development of your site, such as SEO specialists, programmers, marketers;
• receiving a detailed report on all problems, as well as recommendations for their elimination, which will allow you to understand how to work with the site in the future, awareness of the resource's weaknesses and their elimination;
• definition of a general promotion strategy, which will allow you to draw up a plan for subsequent actions, as well as systematically implement them step by step, ultimately achieving excellent results.

But let us repeat that in any case, it is important that the SEO audit is truly high-quality and comprehensive, because this is the only way to get excellent results.

Features of a comprehensive approach to SEO site audit

Let us repeat once again that search engine algorithms change very often, and it is very important for websites to adapt to them. Without this, you will not be able to provide your resources with good positions in search results, as well as other related parameters: site traffic, number of orders, sales, income level. You must understand that SEO as such sets itself the task not only of moving the site to the TOP of search results, but also of ensuring the maximum return on invested funds and efforts.

And here you must answer quite trivial questions. Will good organic traffic to the site help ensure decent sales if you have problems with the application form? If your competitors have a large assortment of goods, lower prices, will people leave orders with you? Will a person buy a particular product if its description is clumsy, inaccurate, there are no detailed photos? And there are many, many such nuances, but the result is the same - even those people you attract to your site may simply leave it without performing the desired target action if they don't like something specifically on your site. As a result, audience satisfaction decreases, behavioral factors and brand reputation deteriorate. And, of course, the site's position will still go down.

To prevent this from happening, it is important for you to approach the implementation of your SEO audit as comprehensively and as thoroughly as possible. In this case, you should not just find errors on the site, but also eliminate them as correctly as possible, so as not to provoke the emergence of new problems. And this means that you must understand what work needs to be done, in what sequence. What points at each stage should you pay special attention to and what actions should you take to refine your site and bring it literally to perfection both from the search engine and from ordinary users who will interact with it?

12 TOP recommendations for a comprehensive SEO audit of a site

A comprehensive SEO audit of a site will include a fairly wide variety of checks designed to identify not only technical problems, but also errors, assess the usability of the site, the quality of external links, available data, and more. At the same time, the set of parameters that should be checked and regularly monitored directly will depend on the specifics of the site itself.

Alternatively, it is much more important for the media to find and analyze potential growth points, because they need to ensure good search traffic indicators. But the technical audit here is systematically relegated to the background. It is highly probable that if a site attracts a large number of users, if it shows positive dynamics, then most likely there will be no technical problems, at least not serious ones.

But all this will be completely irrelevant for fairly young sites, all those that are just entering the market, winning their audience. If it does have technical problems, it will never be able to reveal its own potential and win a large audience of users.

But in any case, it is important to be well versed in absolutely all available tools and methods available to a modern SEO audit. This way, you will be able to choose those solutions that will be relevant specifically for your company at a particular time. Now we will get to know them in more detail.

Internal SEO audit

By internal SEO audit, we mean checking the technical condition of the site. This is the basis of almost any site, responsible for its direct indexing. If mistakes are made here, there is a risk that your page will not appear in search results at all, which means it will not be shown to people and will not work for the benefit of your business. During such an internal SEO audit, a fairly large number of parameters are checked:

• settings based on which the search engine will scan your site, launch it for indexing;
• the presence of broken links, irrelevant redirects to certain pages;
• accessibility for search bots of all those pages of the site that will be important for you at the promotion stage;
• correct compilation of URL addresses in accordance with the current SEO requirements;
• formation of site maps that will be useful for search bots when scanning the site, allowing them to better understand its structure, the relationship between individual pages;
• the presence of micro-markup, with the help of which crawlers will better understand the context of your content;
• checking pages for their vulnerability to duplication, to problems of the class «rel="canonical"»;
• the presence of correct HTTP headers, validity, and a number of other similar parameters related to the direct technical component of the site.

After launching such an SEO audit, you will receive a file containing a list of existing problems and a set of specific recommendations aimed at eliminating them. We would like to draw your attention to the fact that only a person with the relevant knowledge and skills, i.e. the programmer himself, can eliminate such errors and understand the nuances of the contents of this document.

Content Check

The quality of the content of your site and a single page is one of the key indicators of effective SEO promotion. The fact is that you will never provide high rankings for sites that do not contain useful and valuable materials for users.

In this case, the SEO audit of the site will include the following checks:

• the structure of the text content, the presence of formatting elements in it;
• the presence of optimized meta tags on the pages, having studied which search bots will be able to understand what exactly each of them is devoted to;
• the presence of a block where answers to user questions are provided;
• the relevance of the information on those pages that attract the most visitors, the regularity of its updating;
• analysis of page types, as well as the compliance of their content with this (informational, commercial, etc.);
• compliance of the content presented on the page with business goals, etc.

As recommendations after the analysis, you will receive tips that will help you optimize existing content, prepare optimal publications for the foreseeable future in accordance with current requirements.

Checking the site loading speed

For more than 5 years, the Google search engine has included such an indicator as the site loading speed, that is, its speed, in the mandatory ranking factors. Today, this issue raises a number of doubts and controversial opinions among many experts. Some argue that it really has a serious impact on ranking, while others say that this requirement still remains on paper. But even if you do not look at the search engine itself, it is important to think about user convenience. The fact is that the traffic of sites that load within 1 second is significantly higher than those that open after 3 seconds. This is the case when literally every fraction of a second plays a very important role. That is, it is in your interests to conduct an audit of the site's speed and promptly eliminate the identified errors. This is your chance to significantly improve the behavioral factors of your resource, increase its competitiveness.

When performing such an SEO audit, key metrics of website loading are checked. In particular, you will need to pay special attention to special Core factors:

• Largest Contentful Paint (LCP). Responsible for the loading speed of the main content on the page.
• Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS). Indicates the cumulative shift of the layout.
• First Input Delay (FID). This is the time interval for waiting for interaction.
• Interaction to Next Paint (INP). This is a fairly new indicator of interaction delay. It is replaced by the more outdated FID factor in Core Web Vitals.

As a result, in such a check you will also receive a file containing information about the error and a set of recommendations for improving key metrics related to the site loading speed.

On-page check

This SEO audit checks a single page, not the site as a whole. Here we are talking about landing pages that are important for your business, because problems with them can negatively affect the work of your company as a whole. So, such work will involve checking the following elements:

• structure in headings of different levels;
• HTML code of the page;
• technical headings;
• third-party elements that do not carry a target load for bots and people;
• graphic content, its quality, usefulness.

The result of the On-page audit will be a file with recommendations, using which you can make the necessary adjustments to the most important landing pages for you.

SEO audit of external links

External link mass is what will give strength to your site, indicate its authority, usefulness in the eyes of search bots. It is extremely bad for the site if there are no backlinks at all or they lead from insufficiently competent, dubious sites. This means that we should also approach the formation of the external link mass as professionally as possible. Otherwise, you will not be able to achieve the desired promotion indicators: your site's inclusion in the top of the search results will simply be blocked by the system.

SEO audit of the external link mass will involve the following work:

• forming a list of all external links that will lead to your site from different sites;
• checking the link mass for quality, spam indicators;
• analysis of phrases that were used as an anchor;
• checking links that lead to a non-existent page, indicate broken interlinking, redirection.

In the final document, you will receive a list of all external links leading to your site, as well as a set of recommendations. In particular, you will learn which links the system recommends to simply delete so as not to cause harm, and which, on the contrary, should be returned back, set up their correct redirection.

Checking the closest competitors

We have already said above that it will be possible to achieve good results in promotion only if you understand how your competitors work, what exactly they offer to the market, what technologies they implement. If you evaluate their work comprehensively, you will be able to identify the most effective strategies, as well as failed solutions, thereby minimizing your own risks, mistakes and getting the most at the stage of website promotion. In particular, such a check will involve performing work in 2 separate directions:

1. Competitors' content. Here it is important for you to analyze the text content of their site, the range of products, the presence and quality of interlinking. It will also be useful to evaluate the overall SEO structure.
2. Competitors' link mass. Here we collect information about external links, analyze the pages that link to them, anchor text, and create a comparative table.

Unlike all the other options that we have already discussed above, in this case the report will contain a comparative table where you will clearly see the difference in links between your site and the site of your competitors, as well as a detailed action plan that will help you build up a high-quality mass of links for your site.

Analysis of business reputation on the Internet

Every business knows that trust in the brand from the user audience is one of the fundamental points of stable development of the business as a whole. This means that you need to constantly monitor responses to reviews left about you online. It is also important to find out which platforms occupy leading positions for your brand queries. An online reputation audit, or SERM audit, will help you find answers to these questions. It includes the following work:

• defining the range of key brand queries;
• monitoring responses about your business online, regardless of the platforms;
• analysis of the sentiment of reviews.

As a final document, you receive recommendations that will help you effectively process the information received, promptly and competently respond to user opinions. You will also be offered an action plan aimed at minimizing the negative, which will help achieve good results in search results.

Website usability analysis

In this case, the SEO audit will involve checking the usability of the site for users, as well as identifying problems that prevent users from effectively interacting with your site, such as viewing information, product items, making transactions, finding the necessary content through search, sending a request for feedback, etc.

During such an audit, you receive:

• a detailed visualization of the user's path through your site;
• analysis of the so-called heat maps, scroll maps;
• information on behavioral actions on services;
• software quality assurance check (Quality Assurance).

The final file will contain a list of problems, as well as optimal ways to eliminate them. It is also convenient that here you will receive a selection of hypotheses for launching A/B testing.

Analysis of E-E-A-T factors and commercial component

Recently, in order to improve the quality of content, its usefulness for the target audience, search engines have begun to tighten the requirements quite seriously. Moreover, this applies not only to the articles themselves, but also to their authors, in particular to their level of expertise. As a result, Google introduced the so-called E-E-A-T principle. It includes a set of factors such as Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trustworthiness, that is, “Experience”, “Expertise”, “Authority”, “Reliability”. This SEO audit will be aimed at identifying the compliance of your content with all these principles.

During such a check, the following is analyzed:

• micro-markup provided on the site;
• the presence of pages on the site that carry an important commercial component;
• facts confirming the identity of the author, his expertise;
• additional parameters that can indicate trust in the content and the site as a whole.

As a result, you get a set of recommendations that will help supplement the pages important for your site or create them from scratch.

Analysis of existing data

Most modern businesses actively use Google Search Console and related analytics tools in their work. They will contain a large amount of information about your site, but it requires additional verification and comprehensive analysis. In particular, such an SEO audit will include:

• search for those types of content that most attract the user audience and lead to traffic conversion;
• identification of missed semantic queries, due to which a fairly impressive target audience is cut off;
• analysis of site pages that have recently lost traffic, finding out the reasons for this.

After such a check, you will receive a list of recommendations and additions regarding the creation of new content or updating the existing one.

SEO audit of analytical data

Here we are talking about such a direction as web analytics in general. This is the basis on which most modern specialists make appropriate decisions on making a number of decisions in digital marketing. This approach is correct and reasonable, but the problem is that incorrect or incomplete information is used here. As a result, not entirely correct decisions are made. Therefore, it is important to conduct an SEO audit of web analytics, ensuring maximum data accuracy. During such work, the following is performed:

• checking the correctness of the connection of those analytical services that you use in practice;
• connecting to analytical tools all those pages that will be especially important for your business;
• absence of duplicate pages on the site and in the analytics itself;
• using information about conversions and many other important data in analytics.

As a result, the user receives a set of recommendations for eliminating the identified problems, as well as a list of additions that can be used in analytics.

Analysis aimed at finding growth points

One of the main tasks facing a modern SEO audit is to find additional growth points. In most cases, such an analysis is this is already a kind of summary after all the previous studies that we talked about above. That is, based on the overall picture, you can analyze the following information:

• types of content that have good potential for your site, but for one reason or another were missed;
• checking the internal potential of your online platform and its prospects;
• performance indicators of your closest competitors;
• potential of certain key queries and a number of related data.

As a result, you receive predicted information on traffic, as well as a set of suggestions that will help create high-quality new content for the site or optimize existing content.

Summing up

Does your site need a comprehensive SEO audit? The question is quite rhetorical, because here everyone must draw the appropriate conclusions for themselves individually. The only thing we can say is that after it is done, you will really be able to do everything perfectly, get a website that will be highly appreciated by both search bots and regular users. This is what will allow you to increase organic traffic several times, scale your own business processes, guaranteeing stable development and bright prospects.

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