Run Your First Audit

Overview

A FixRank audit starts by crawling the website and creating a shared intelligence model. That model is then used by the downstream intelligence stages.

Before you start

• A FixRank account.
• A website URL.
• An available site slot under your plan.
• Remaining audit usage under your plan.

Run an audit

1. 1
   Open the FixRank app

   Go to the audit workflow.

2. 2
   Enter the website

   Enter the domain you are authorised to analyse.

3. 3
   Start the audit

   FixRank begins crawling the site.

4. 4
   Follow the analysis

   The analysis screen shows the progress of the intelligence stages.

5. 5
   Open the final report

   When processing is complete, review the report and prioritised findings.

What happens during the audit

The crawl runs first and produces the shared website intelligence. The remaining stages read from that model, so nothing is crawled twice.

• Crawl Engine — Maps the site and creates the shared website intelligence every later stage reads from.
• Audit Agent — Evaluates technical SEO and overall site health.
• Google Agent — Evaluates Google-search related signals and the search data available for the site.
• AI Visibility Agent — Analyses AI-search visibility signals across AI answer surfaces.
• Semantic Engine — Maps entities, topics, relationships, and semantic gaps.
• Content Engine — Evaluates content quality, coverage, and opportunities.
• Internal Linking Engine — Identifies structural and contextual internal linking opportunities.
• Fix Agent — Synthesises every finding into one prioritised plan.

What happens if I leave the page

Processing continues on FixRank's side. Returning to the audit shows its current status; when processing has finished, the report is available from your audit history.

Troubleshooting

• Audit does not start — check the URL, account status, and remaining usage under your plan.
• Crawl cannot reach pages — check robots.txt, authentication, redirects, and server errors.
• Fewer pages than expected — check plan page limits and internal discoverability.

FAQs

Related documentation

• How Audits Work
  One crawl creates the shared website intelligence used across the full analysis.
• Audit Status
  What each audit state means while an analysis runs.
• Understanding Your Report
  How the executive report is structured and how to read it.