📋 What Is the Site Health Score?

The Site Health Score is a numerical rating that gives you a quick snapshot of your website's overall technical SEO condition. It is generated after Search Atlas crawls your site and evaluates on-page and technical factors across your pages.

You can find your score inside the Site Audit area of the platform after a crawl has been completed.

🔢 How to Read Your Score

Your score sits on a scale, where a higher number indicates a healthier site from a technical SEO perspective. Use the ranges below as a general guide:

• Excellent: Your site is in great shape. Only minor issues exist. Focus on maintaining this level and resolving any remaining notices.
• Good: Your site is performing well but has some issues worth addressing. Prioritise any warnings to push your score higher.
• Needs Improvement: A notable number of issues are present. Fixing errors and warnings in this range can meaningfully improve crawlability and rankings.
• Critical: Significant technical problems exist. Immediate attention is recommended to avoid negative impacts on search visibility.

🔍 What Does a High Score Mean?

A high site health score means your site is in excellent technical condition. Any remaining gap from a perfect score typically reflects a handful of low-severity notices or minor warnings — not serious errors. At this level, your site's technical foundation is strong and unlikely to be holding back your search performance.

To close that gap, review the remaining issues flagged in your audit report. Even at high scores, resolving notices can improve consistency across your pages.

⚠️ Understanding Issue Types

The audit categorises issues into three severity levels, each of which affects your score differently:

• Errors (High Severity): These are the most damaging issues — broken links, missing canonical tags, pages blocked from indexing, and similar problems. Fixing errors has the greatest positive impact on your score.
• Warnings (Medium Severity): These are issues that are not immediately critical but can harm performance over time, such as slow page speed, duplicate meta descriptions, or thin content.
• Notices (Low Severity): These are informational flags that highlight opportunities for improvement. They have a smaller effect on your score but are still worth reviewing.

🚀 How to Improve Your Score

1. Open your site audit report inside Search Atlas after a crawl has completed.
2. Sort issues by severity — start with Errors, then Warnings, then Notices.
3. Click any issue to see the affected pages and the recommended fix for that issue type.
4. Apply the recommended fixes on your site, then re-run the crawl to see your updated score.
5. Repeat this process regularly to maintain and improve your site health over time.

If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type human teammate to be connected with a member of our team.