Technical SEO Audit

Categories

1. Crawlability

• robots.txt: exists, valid, not blocking important resources
• XML sitemap: exists, referenced in robots.txt, valid format
• Noindex tags: intentional vs accidental
• Crawl depth: important pages within 3 clicks of homepage
• JavaScript rendering: check if critical content requires JS execution
• Crawl budget: for large sites (>10k pages), efficiency matters

AI Crawler Management

As of 2025-2026, AI companies actively crawl the web to train models and power AI search. Managing these crawlers via robots.txt is a critical technical SEO consideration.

Known AI crawlers: