About SEOWay
SEOWay is a free technical SEO auditor built around one idea: a list of problems is only useful when it tells you what to fix first.
Why it exists
Most audit tools return a long, flat list. Fifty-two findings with equal weight leave you to work out which ones matter, and the answer usually sits in a handful of them: a page that cannot be indexed, a canonical pointing the wrong way, a title that is missing on half the templates.
SEOWay grades every finding the way an experienced auditor triages a site. Errors keep a page out of the index or serve it wrongly, so they come first. Warnings weaken a page without breaking it. Notices are refinements for pages that are already sound. Every finding carries the evidence pulled from the page, the reason it matters and the specific change that clears it.
How an audit works
Enter a domain and SEOWay crawls the website the way a search engine would. It starts at the homepage, follows internal links outward, adds the URLs listed in the XML sitemap, and skips anything robots.txt blocks. The pages closest to the homepage are crawled first, as many pages as you choose, from 50 up to 10,000.
Every page is fetched by SEOWay's server, following each redirect one hop at a time, then analysed in your browser against 52 checks across seven areas: crawlability, content, meta tags, links, HTTPS, performance and AI search readiness. Across the whole crawl SEOWay also finds broken internal links, links that go through redirects, duplicate titles and descriptions, sitemap URLs with problems, orphan pages and how many clicks each page is from the homepage.
Enter a page URL instead and SEOWay audits just that page in depth. Either way, SEOWay's server keeps nothing once the report is on your screen. If you save a site as a project, its report is stored in your own browser, not on our server.
How the health score is calculated
Errors weigh 5, warnings 2 and notices 1. The score is the weighted share of checks passed, out of 100. Any error caps the score at 89, and a page that cannot be indexed at all is capped at 40, so a high number always means a healthy page.
What SEOWay does not do
It stops at the page count you pick, up to 10,000 pages. On a larger site the pages closest to the homepage come first, which is where most problems that matter show up, and the report tells you how many more URLs it found. The crawl runs in your browser tab: it keeps going if you switch to another tab, but stops if you close it. A 10,000-page audit takes roughly one to three hours, depending on how fast the audited site responds.
It does not render JavaScript. If a site builds its content in the browser, SEOWay sees the HTML the server sends, which is also what many crawlers and AI fetchers see on their first pass.
Response time is measured from SEOWay's server, so it reflects the distance between the two as well as the site's own speed. Use it as a guide alongside the Core Web Vitals report in Search Console.
The crawler
SEOWay identifies itself as SEOWayBot and only fetches sites that someone has asked it to audit. During a site audit it stays on that one domain, requests three pages at a time with a short pause between them, and respects robots.txt. Requests are limited per visitor to keep the load on audited sites low.