Platform
Crawls & Audit
Outclimb continuously crawls your site to map its structure, assess technical health, and feed data into the content strategy pipeline.
Overview
The crawler visits every publicly accessible page on your domain, following internal links and sitemaps. Crawl data powers everything downstream — keyword discovery, content gap analysis, and internal linking suggestions all depend on a current, accurate site map.
Key concepts
- Site crawl — a full traversal of your domain that discovers pages, extracts metadata (title, description, headings, word count), and maps internal links
- Technical audit — automated checks run on every crawled page: broken links, missing meta tags, slow pages, structured data validation, duplicate content detection
- Health score — a 0–100 score summarizing your site's technical health based on audit findings
- Crawl issues — individual problems found during the audit, categorized by severity (critical, warning, info)
- Re-crawl frequency — Outclimb re-crawls your site periodically to detect changes. New pages, removed pages, and updated content are reflected automatically.
How to use it
- Visit Crawls in the sidebar to see the latest crawl summary and page count
- Check your health score — aim for 80+ for a well-optimized site
- Open Crawl Issues to see specific problems. Start with critical issues first.
- Fix issues on your site (or note which ones Outclimb can handle — for example, meta descriptions are auto-generated for new articles)
- Trigger a manual re-crawl if you've made significant site changes and want immediate updates