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Reviewing your results

After a scan, every audited page appears across three tabs. Each row is one page, shown the way search engines and social platforms actually see it - built from the page's real rendered output, not from your SEO plugin's settings screen.

The three tabs​

  • Search Appearance - each page as a Google-style mobile result: breadcrumb, title, description and an indicative thumbnail, with the Issues badge alongside and any Warning, Notice and Robots flags on the card. A summary across the top shows how many items were scanned, how many have issues, the total issue count, and the last scan time.
  • Social Appearance - each page as a Facebook and LinkedIn style share card: image, title and description, plus the X (Twitter) card type.
  • Findings - every page with something flagged, grouped by area with a one-line summary and separate Issues, Warnings and Notices counts, so you can triage the whole site without opening each page.

The Search Appearance tab showing pages as Google-style mobile search results

The Social Appearance tab showing pages as social share-card previews

Hover any title or description to read the full text when it is truncated in the card.

Archive pages​

Archive pages - the blog home, category, tag and custom taxonomy archives, and monthly date archives - appear as their own rows on every tab, labelled by what they are (for example "Categories: News" or "Month: June 2026"). They audit exactly like posts: same previews, same issue detection, same modal.

Two differences from post rows:

  • There is no Edit action - archives are generated pages, not posts. Their titles and descriptions come from your SEO plugin's archive templates (or the theme), so that is where you fix an issue. View, Re-scan and Exclude all work as normal.
  • The type filter above the results gains an Archives choice, so you can look at just your archive pages (or filter them out).

You can switch archive auditing off under Settings with the "Audit archive pages" checkbox - stored archive results are removed, and they return after the next scan if you re-enable it.

The Site row​

One row is not a page at all: Site: AI access and robots.txt. It audits your site's robots.txt and carries an AI access badge showing which documented AI crawlers are allowed to read the site. Because a robots.txt file has no search snippet or share card, it appears on the Findings tab only, and in the type filter it sits in the Archives bucket. See AI readiness for the full tour.

Click any preview image to see what each platform crops​

Click a preview image to open it full size. The overlay highlights the exact area the platform keeps and dims the edges it trims, so you can see at a glance whether anything important (a logo, a face, key text) falls outside the frame:

The full-size image overlay with the platform's kept area highlighted and trimmed edges dimmed

  • On the Social card the frame is the 1.91:1 share-card crop Facebook, LinkedIn and similar platforms use.
  • On the Search card the frame is Google's square mobile-thumbnail crop.

If an image already matches the platform's shape, no frame is shown - nothing is being cropped. Search thumbnails are indicative: Google chooses its own image and may show a different one, or none.

The flags​

Findings are split by severity, so advisory items are never counted as problems:

  • Issues - the number of critical problems on the page, or "OK" when there are none. This is the badge in the Issues column.
  • Warnings - things worth fixing but not breaking, shown on the card when present (for example a missing meta description or og:image).
  • Notices - advisory points to be aware of, shown on the card when present (for example a missing canonical, or a deliberate noindex).
  • Indexable / noindex - whether the page allows search indexing.

Each of the Issues, Warnings and Notices badges opens its own list. Canonical findings no longer have a separate flag - they appear under Warnings or Notices according to their severity. Click any badge - or any row on the Findings tab - to open the issue-details popup.

The issue-details popup​

The popup is where you see why a page was flagged and decide what to do about it.

The issue-details popup showing a flagged page with its evidence and quick actions

It shows, for the page you clicked:

  • Each issue, with its evidence. Every problem is listed with the exact value taken from the rendered page - the actual title, description, canonical URL, robots directive or image URL that shipped - so you are never guessing about what the plugin saw.
  • Actions along the bottom:
    • View page - opens the live page in a new tab.
    • Edit page - jumps to the WordPress editor for that page.
    • Re-scan - re-audits just this page on the spot, so you can fix something and confirm it immediately without running a full scan.
  • Ignore an issue. From the popup you can ignore an individual issue either on this one page or sitewide (for example, a deliberate noindex you do not want counted). Ignored issues stay visible in the popup, greyed out, but stop counting anywhere - the per-page and total issue counts drop accordingly. You can reverse this any time from the Ignored view, where every sitewide and per-page ignore is listed with an un-ignore link.

What the Findings tab flags​

The free plugin checks the rendered output of every page for:

The Findings tab listing every flagged page with area and severity

  • Title - missing, or more than one title tag present.
  • Meta description - missing, duplicated, or conflicting; and now also too long for your configured preview length (so search engines will truncate it) or very short (a weak snippet).
  • Open Graph (social) - missing og:title, og:description or og:image; an og:image that is not an absolute URL or that fails to load; or multiple og:image tags.
  • X (Twitter) card - missing card type.
  • Canonical - missing, duplicated, or not an absolute URL; or a canonical that conflicts with a noindex.
  • Robots - the page is set to noindex, or to max-image-preview:none (so Google will not show a thumbnail for it in search). Both are intentional on some pages, so they are flagged for you to verify rather than treated as errors. A noindex page is also excluded from the AI answer surfaces that ride the search index, including Google AI Overviews and Bing Copilot, and the notice says so.

Findings in the AI area - crawler access, and the page directives that limit how a page can be used in AI answers - are a paid feature; the AI access panel itself is free. See AI readiness.

Each issue carries a severity (critical, warning or notice) so you can prioritise. By default pages are sorted by severity - those with critical problems first, then warnings, then notices - so the pages that need attention are always at the top. You can still sort by any column.

Changes since last scan​

Paid plans track what changed between scans. After a full scan, each tab shows a Changes since last scan badge when something has moved. Open it to see, for that tab's area, what was newly flagged, what was fixed, and which titles, descriptions or images were edited - regressions first. The comparison is against the previous full scan, so the first scan after you start has nothing to compare against yet, and single-page re-scans do not move the baseline. The scheduled email report lists the same per-page changes.

Filtering and export​

Paid plans add severity and issue-type filters above the results and CSV export, for working through a large site or sharing findings. The free plugin shows everything in the tabs and the popup.