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Technical Audit

Technical Audit terms

Indexation, crawling, speed, Schema.org, hreflang — everything making a site visible to search engines.

Technical SEO

Optimizing the technical aspects of a site: speed, crawlability, indexation, structure.

hreflang

An HTML attribute telling search engines which language and regional version of a page to serve.

Core Web Vitals

Google's page experience metrics: LCP, INP, CLS — measuring speed and visual stability.

Schema.org Markup

Structured data markup for search engines and AI. Enhances rich snippets and GEO visibility.

Crawl Budget

The number of pages Googlebot will crawl on your site within a given timeframe.

Canonical (rel=canonical)

An HTML tag pointing search engines to the preferred version of a page when duplicates exist.

robots.txt

File at site root telling search bots which sections may be crawled and which not.

sitemap.xml

XML site map listing all important URLs — helps search engines discover and index pages faster.

301 Redirect

Permanent redirect from old URL to new. Passes SEO weight, unlike 302.

noindex

Meta tag or HTTP header forbidding search engines from indexing a page. Not the same as robots.txt.

IndexNow

Open protocol by Bing/Yandex — lets sites instantly notify search engines about content changes.

Google Search Console

Free Google tool for monitoring indexation, rankings, errors, and submitting sitemap.

Yandex Webmaster

Yandex's tool for tracking indexation, technical issues, and site visibility in Yandex search.