Monitor your website's health status in WeeklySEO to ensure smooth analysis and accurate recommendations.
Website Health Status
Healthy ✅
**Meaning:** Website is accessible, crawlable, and being analyzed normally.
**Indicators:**
**Action:** None needed. Everything is working well.
Crawling 🔄
**Meaning:** Analysis is currently in progress.
**Indicators:**
**Action:** Wait for completion. Check back in 10-15 minutes.
Warning ⚠️
**Meaning:** Partial issues detected, but analysis completing.
**Common causes:**
**Action:** Review warnings in website details, address if persistent.
Error ❌
**Meaning:** Cannot access or crawl website.
**Common causes:**
**Action:** Investigate and resolve connectivity issues immediately.
Crawl Status Details
Last Crawled Timestamp
**Shows:** When the most recent successful crawl completed.
**Normal frequency:** Once per week (Mondays by default)
**Concerning signs:**
Pages Discovered
**Shows:** How many pages WeeklySEO has found on your site.
**What's normal:**
**Concerning signs:**
Pages Analyzed
**Shows:** Pages actually processed in most recent analysis.
**Relationship to plan:**
**Note:** Priority pages analyzed first, then others up to your limit.
Common Health Issues
Issue: Website Showing as "Unreachable"
**Possible causes:**
**Solutions:**
Issue: "Robots.txt Blocking Crawl"
**Meaning:** Your robots.txt file prevents WeeklySEO from accessing pages.
**Solutions:**
**WeeklySEO user agent:** `WeeklySEOBot/1.0 (+https://weeklyseo.io/bot)`
Issue: Some Pages Not Being Discovered
**Possible causes:**
**Solutions:**
Issue: Too Many Pages Being Crawled
**Meaning:** Crawler finding more pages than expected.
**Common causes:**
**Solutions:**
Crawl Settings Optimization
Setting Crawl Exclusions
**Paths to typically exclude:**
/admin/*
/wp-admin/*
/login
/cart
/checkout
/thank-you
/search
/*?s=*
/tag/***Why:** Focus analysis on SEO-relevant pages.
Prioritizing Important Pages
**Set high priority for:**
**Benefit:** These are analyzed first and most thoroughly.
Crawl Frequency
**Default:** Weekly (Monday mornings)
**Manual trigger:** Pro/Business plans can trigger immediate analysis
**Why weekly:** Balance between data freshness and allowing time to implement changes.
Monitoring Best Practices
✅ **Check health status** weekly after analysis
✅ **Review crawl warnings** and address persistent issues
✅ **Monitor page count** for unexpected changes
✅ **Set up performance alerts** for downtime
✅ **Keep robots.txt updated** to allow WeeklySEO
❌ **Don't ignore warnings** - they can become errors
❌ **Don't block crawler** accidentally
❌ **Don't expect instant crawls** - they run on schedule
❌ **Don't forget about excluded pages** - review periodically
Troubleshooting Workflow
**When you see a health issue:**
Next Steps
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