Customized Auditing Settings for Maximum Impact

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Customized Auditing Settings

Our Customized Auditing Settings let you define exactly what matters for your website’s success. Choose specific metrics, focus areas, and performance goals tailored to your business. From SEO to speed optimization, our flexible settings ensure every audit delivers precise insights, empowering you to take targeted, impactful action.

Customized SEO Controls

Meta Headers

Require at least one H1 and set the maximum number of H1 through H6 tags a page may use.

Meta Title

Set minimum and maximum title length, sentence or camel casing, and whether the title may match the H1.

Meta Description

Set the shortest and longest meta description a page can have so every snippet follows the same length rule.

Images

Require alt text, cap file size and filename length, and allow only hyphen-separated lowercase names.

URL Slug

Require lowercase URLs, set a maximum length, and choose hyphens, underscores, or either as word separators.

Keywords

Skip chosen words in title casing checks and block stop words in URLs so keyword rules stay the same on every page.

Define your acceptance criteria for performance tests

Set the scores a page must reach before a performance check passes. Choose minimum PageSpeed scores for desktop and mobile, then apply the same Lighthouse, Core Web Vitals, and mobile-friendliness bars to every audit in the project.

Coding Best Practices

Set the markup and delivery rules every page must meet. These checks cover compression, caching, page weight, and HTML patterns that slow rendering or make pages harder to crawl.

HTML Code Compression

A page passes when its HTML is minified and extra whitespace and comments have been removed.

HTML Page Size

Set the maximum HTML document size in kilobytes. Images and external CSS or JavaScript files are left out of that total.

CSS Code Compression

External stylesheets must be compressed and minified before the page can pass.

Frameset

The page must not use a frameset. Frames split the window into separate documents and are difficult for users and crawlers.

JS Code Compression

External JavaScript files must be compressed and minified.

Broken Links

Flag links that do not return a 200 status, and keep an ignore list for URLs you want this check to skip.

GZip Compression

The HTML response must be served with GZIP compression enabled.

CSS Caching

Stylesheets must send cache headers such as Cache-Control or an ETag so returning visitors are not forced to download them again.

Nested Tables

The page must not contain a table inside another table. Nested tables slow rendering.

JS Caching

JavaScript files must send cache headers such as Cache-Control or an ETag so repeat visits can reuse them.

Security Settings

Turn on the security checks a project must pass. Each card opens that test in Tools so you can run it on its own.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do Settings control?

Settings are the pass and fail rules for a project. Audits and bulk tools use those same rules, so a page is judged the same way in every check.

Can each project have its own rules?

Yes. Title length, casing, image rules, URL rules, and which checks are required are saved on the project. Updating one project leaves the others unchanged.

Which SEO rules can I customize?

You can set title and description length, title casing, whether the title may match the H1, heading counts, image alt text and filenames, and URL length, case, and separators.

Do coding and security tests have numeric limits?

Most of them are on or off. Compression, caching, framesets, security headers, SSL, and Safe Browsing either meet the rule or they fail. HTML page size, image size, and the broken-link ignore list are the checks with extra options.

Will a settings change update results I already have?

New audits and tool runs use the updated rules. Results that are already saved stay as they are until you run those checks again.

Where can I run a single security test?

Each card under Security Settings links to that test in Tools. Open the card to run the check without starting a full project audit.

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