Technical SEO Checker
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System Mode: This optimization skill follows the shared Skill Contract and State Model.
This skill performs comprehensive technical SEO audits to identify issues that may prevent search engines from properly crawling, indexing, and ranking your site.
System role: Optimization layer skill. It turns weak pages, structures, and technical issues into prioritized repair work.
When This Must Trigger
Use this when the conversation involves any of these situations — even if the user does not use SEO terminology:
Use this whenever the task needs a diagnosis or repair plan that should feed directly into remediation work, not just a one-time opinion.
- Launching a new website
- Diagnosing ranking drops
- Pre-migration SEO audits
- Regular technical health checks
- Identifying crawl and index issues
- Improving site performance
- Fixing Core Web Vitals issues
What This Skill Does
- Crawlability Audit: Checks robots.txt, sitemaps, crawl issues
- Indexability Review: Analyzes index status and blockers
- Site Speed Analysis: Evaluates Core Web Vitals and performance
- Mobile-Friendliness: Checks mobile optimization
- Security Check: Reviews HTTPS and security headers
- Structured Data Audit: Validates schema markup
- URL Structure Analysis: Reviews URL patterns and redirects
- International SEO: Checks hreflang and localization
Quick Start
Start with one of these prompts. Finish with a short handoff summary using the repository format in Skill Contract.
Full Technical Audit
Perform a technical SEO audit for [URL/domain]
Specific Issue Check
Check Core Web Vitals for [URL]
Audit crawlability and indexability for [domain]
Pre-Migration Audit
Technical SEO checklist for migrating [old domain] to [new domain]
Skill Contract
Expected output: a scored diagnosis, prioritized repair plan, and a short handoff summary ready for memory/audits/.
- Reads: the current page or site state, symptoms, prior audits, and current priorities from CLAUDE.md and the shared State Model when available.
- Writes: a user-facing audit or optimization plan plus a reusable summary that can be stored under
memory/audits/.
- Promotes: blocking defects, repeated weaknesses, and fix priorities to
memory/open-loops.md and memory/decisions.md.
- Next handoff: use the
Next Best Skill below when the repair path is clear.
Data Sources
See CONNECTORS.md for tool category placeholders.
With ~~web crawler + ~~page speed tool + ~~CDN connected:
Claude can automatically crawl the entire site structure via ~~web crawler, pull Core Web Vitals and performance metrics from ~~page speed tool, analyze caching headers from ~~CDN, and fetch mobile-friendliness data. This enables comprehensive automated technical audits.
With manual data only:
Ask the user to provide:
- Site URL(s) to audit
- PageSpeed Insights screenshots or reports
- robots.txt file content
- sitemap.xml URL or file
Proceed with the full audit using provided data. Note in the output which findings are from automated crawl vs. manual review.
Instructions
When a user requests a technical SEO audit:
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Audit Crawlability
## Crawlability Analysis
### Robots.txt Review
**URL**: [domain]/robots.txt
**Status**: [Found/Not Found/Error]
**Current Content**:
[robots.txt content]
| Check | Status | Notes |
|-------|--------|-------|
| File exists | ✅/❌ | [notes] |
| Valid syntax | ✅/⚠️/❌ | [errors found] |
| Sitemap declared | ✅/❌ | [sitemap URL] |
| Important pages blocked | ✅/⚠️/❌ | [blocked paths] |
| Assets blocked | ✅/⚠️/❌ | [CSS/JS blocked?] |
| Correct user-agents | ✅/⚠️/❌ | [notes] |
**Issues Found**:
- [Issue 1]
- [Issue 2]
**Recommended robots.txt**:
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /private/
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml
---
### XML Sitemap Review
**Sitemap URL**: [URL]
**Status**: [Found/Not Found/Error]
| Check | Status | Notes |
|-------|--------|-------|
| Sitemap exists | ✅/❌ | [notes] |
| Valid XML format | ✅/⚠️/❌ | [errors] |
| In robots.txt | ✅/❌ | [notes] |
| Submitted to ~~search console | ✅/⚠️/❌ | [notes] |
| URLs count | [X] | [appropriate?] |
| Only indexable URLs | ✅/⚠️/❌ | [notes] |
| Includes priority | ✅/⚠️ | [notes] |
| Includes lastmod | ✅/⚠️ | [accurate?] |
**Issues Found**:
- [Issue 1]
---
### Crawl Budget Analysis
| Factor | Status | Impact |
|--------|--------|--------|
| Crawl errors | [X] errors | [Low/Med/High] |
| Duplicate content | [X] pages | [Low/Med/High] |
| Thin content | [X] pages | [Low/Med/High] |
| Redirect chains | [X] found | [Low/Med/High] |
| Orphan pages | [X] found | [Low/Med/High] |
**Crawlability Score**: [X]/10
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Audit Indexability
## Indexability Analysis
### Index Status Overview
|--------|-------|-------|
| Pages in sitemap | [X] | |
| Pages indexed | [X] | [source: site: search] |
| Index coverage ratio | [X]% | [good if >90%] |
### Index Blockers Check
|--------------|-------|----------------|
| noindex meta tag | [X] | [list or "none"] |
| noindex X-Robots | [X] | [list or "none"] |
| Robots.txt blocked | [X] | [list or "none"] |
| Canonical to other | [X] | [list or "none"] |
| 4xx/5xx errors | [X] | [list or "none"] |
| Redirect loops | [X] | [list or "none"] |
### Canonical Tags Audit
|-------|--------|-------|
| Canonicals present | ✅/⚠️/❌ | [X]% of pages |
| Self-referencing | ✅/⚠️/❌ | [notes] |
| Consistent (HTTP/HTTPS) | ✅/⚠️/❌ | [notes] |
| Consistent (www/non-www) | ✅/⚠️/❌ | [notes] |
| No conflicting signals | ✅/⚠️/❌ | [notes] |
### Duplicate Content Issues
|------------|-------|----------|
| Exact duplicates | [X] | [URLs] |
| Near duplicates | [X] | [URLs] |
| Parameter duplicates | [X] | [URLs] |
| WWW/non-WWW | [X] | [notes] |
| HTTP/HTTPS | [X] | [notes] |
**Indexability Score**: [X]/10
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Audit Site Speed & Core Web Vitals — CWV metrics (LCP/FID/CLS/INP), additional performance metrics (TTFB/FCP/Speed Index/TBT), resource loading breakdown, optimization recommendations
Reference: See references/technical-audit-templates.md for the performance analysis template (Step 3).
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Audit Mobile-Friendliness — Mobile-friendly test, responsive design check, mobile-first indexing verification
