Website audit (standalone)

Running an audit

Request format

POST /audit/create

Request parameters

Name	Required	Description
domain	Yes	Website for audit. Example: seranking.com
title	No	Audit title. Up to 300 characters. By default, will have the title of domain
group_id	No	Audit group id. By default, set to 0 (general)
settings	No	Audit settings. Only the parameters that need changing are added (their value must be different from the default value).

Audit settings. All parameters are optional.

Name	Description	Possible values	Default value
schedule_type	Scanning frequency	manual week month	manual
schedule_day	Audit start day	1-31	1
schedule_hour	Audit start hour	0-23	0
schedule_wdays	The days of the week on which the audit will run (from 1 to 7).	[1,2,3,4,5,6,7]	[]
send_report	Send a report with audit results (1 – send, 0 – do not send)	1,0	1
report_emails	List of emails to send the report to	“”	By default, the report is sent to the account email
source_site	Сrawl all pages of the site or not (starting from the main page and following internal links). If set to (0), only the sitemap or the list of submitted pages will be crawled.	1,0	1
source_sitemap	Crawl sitemap (sitemap.xml)	1,0	1
source_subdomain	Crawl website subdomains. Links to the website subdomains are considered external if not set to (0)	1,0	0
source_file	Use a custom page list	1,0	0
check_robots	Crawl the site according to the list of current instructions in the robots.txt file	1,0	1
ignore_params	Ignore URL parameters	0(do not ignore), 1(all), 2(custom)	0
custom_params	List of ignored parameters. Used when ignore_params=2		utm_source, utm_medium, utm_term, utm_content, utm_campaign, cid, PHPSESSID
ignore_noindex	Ignore noindex	0,1	0
ignore_nofollow	Ignore nofollow	0,1	0
user_agent	User-Agent header value (14 possible options for Website Audit)	0-13	0 (seranking bot)
login	Login for Base HTTP authentication
password	Password for Base HTTP authentication
max_pages	Maximum number of pages to scan	1-300000	1000
max_depth	Maximum scanning depth	1-100	10
max_req	Maximum number of requests per second	1-500	500
max_redirects	Maximum number of redirects	1-50	5
min_title_len	Minimum title length	1-10000	20
max_title_len	Maximum title length	1-10000	65
min_description_len	Minimum meta description length	1-10000	1
max_description_len	Maximum meta description length	1-10000	158
max_size	Maximum page size in kilobytes	1-100000	3000
min_words	Minimum number of words per page	1-10000	250
max_h1_len	Maximum size of H1 headers	1-10000	100
max_h2_len	Maximum size of H2 headers	1-10000	100
allow	Only allow checking for pages with URLs starting with
disallow	Disallow checking for pages with URLs starting with
hide	Hide URLs and resources starting with

Result

If successful, the server returns the ID of the audit.

Example

{

  “id”: 100000222

}

Restarting an audit

Request format

POST /audit/{report_id}/recheck

Result

If successful, the server returns the 200 HTTP code.

List of audits

Request format

POST /audit/list

Request parameters

Name	Description
limit	Number of entries in the list
offset	Offset value
group_id	Audit group id. By default, set to 0 (general)
only_with_project	Only audits with a project
search	Search filter by the title or website URL.
date_start	Search filter by the audit start date.
date_end	Search filter by the audit end date.

Result

Example

{

  “items”: [

       {

      “id”: 6193559,

      “url”: “http://seranking.com”,

      “title”: “seranking.com”,

      “has_project”: true,

      “last_update”: “2023-06-16”,

      “status”: “finished”,

      “stats”: {

        “score”: 66,

        “errors”: 73,

        “warnings”: 448,

        “notices”: 389,

        “crawled”: 100

      },

      “prev_stats”: {

        “score”: 76,

        “errors”: 72,

        “warnings”: 447,

        “notices”: 387,

        “crawled”: 100

      }

    },

…

   ]

  “total”: 810

}

Renaming an audit

Request format

POST /audit/{report_id}/edit

Request parameters

Name	Description
title	New audit name. Maximum 300 characters.

Result

If successful, the server returns the 200 HTTP code.

Deleting an audit

Request format

POST /audit/{report_id}/delete

Result

If successful, the server returns the 200 HTTP code.

Audit status

Request format

GET /audit/{report_id}

GET /audit/?id={id}

Result

If successful, the server returns the audit status.

Example

{

  “status”: “finished”,

  “start_time”: “2018-06-15 12:41:13”,

  “audit_time”: “2018-09-11 16:13:41”,

  “total_pages”: 10,

  “total_warnings”: 71,

  “total_errors”: 21,

  “total_passed”: 810

}

Response parameters

Name	Description
status	canceled – the audit has been canceled; expired – the audit is expired as more than 3 months have passed since it was completed. queued – the audit is currently in a queue;processing – the audit is in progress; finished – the audit has been completed.
start_time	Audit start time
audit_time	Audit end time
total_pages	Total number of scanned pages
total_warnings	Total number of warnings
total_errors	Total number of critical errors
total_passed	Total number of passed checks

Audit report

Data is available only if the audit has been completed (“is_finished”: true).

Request format

GET /audit/{report_id}/report

Result

“is_finished”: true – available data for the audit report.
“is_finished”: false – if the audit is not completed.

Example

{

  “is_finished”: false

}

{

  “is_finished”: true,

  “domain_props”: {

    “archiveOrg”: “2003-02-26”,

    “backlinks”: “4”,

    …

   },

“sections”: [

  {

   “uid”: “tech_audit”,

   “name”: “Название раздела”,

   “props”: [

     {

          “code”: “_images_500_count”,

     “status”: “passed”,

     “name”: “Изображений с ответом 5хх”,

     “value”: “0”

     },

   …],

…

],

 “score_percent”: 79,

 “total_pages”: 10,

 “total_warnings”: 71,

 “total_errors”: 21,

 “total_passed”: 810,

 “audit_time”: “2018-09-11 16:13:41”

 }

Response parameters

Name	Description
is_finished	Audit status
domain_props	Domain information (includes a list of general domain settings)
score_percent	Health Score (%)
audit_time	Audit end time
total_pages	Total number of scanned pages
total_notices	Total number of notices
total_warnings	Total number of warnings
total_errors	Total number of critical errors
total_passed	Total number of passed checks
sections	Audit sections
uid	Section ID
name	Section name
props	List of section checks

Name	Description
expdate	Domain expiration date
ip	Domain IP address
backlinks	Number of backlinks
index_google	Number of pages in Google’s index
index_bing	Number of pages in Bing’s index
index_yahoo	Number of pages in Yahoo’s index

name	Name
status	Status (warning \| error \| passed)
code	Check code
value	Check value

List of pages

List of pages for the specified check.

Request format

GET /audit/{report_id}/links?code={code}&limit=100&offset=10

Request parameters

Name	Required	Description
code	Yes	Check code. For more details, refer to GET /audit/{report_id}/report
limit	No	Total number of links. Max number of links – 1000
offset	No	Offset value

Result

If successful, the server returns the list of pages for the specified audit.

Example

For urls_type: urls_and_sources

{

 “total_urls”: 10,

 “urls”: [

    {

    “id”: 1248462,

    “url”: “https://seranking.com/”

   },

   …

  ],

 “urls_type”: “urls_and_sources”

}

For urls_type: simple_urls_array

{

“total_urls”: 10,

“urls”: [

  “https://seranking.com/keyword-suggestion-tool.html”,

…

],

“urls_type”: “simple_urls_array”

}

For urls_type: duplicate_props

{

“total_urls”: 2,

“urls”: {

  “Online SEO Tools by SE Ranking”: {

    “found_on_urls”: [

    {

    “url”: “https://seranking.com/position-tracking.html”,

    “id”: “1248466”,

    “cnt”: “10”

    },

…

    ],

  }
,

“urls_type”: “duplicate_props”

}

Response parameters

Name	Description
total_urls	Total number of URLs
urls	List of URLs. The format of the list depends on the type of check
urls_type	List type: simple_urls_array duplicate_props urls_and_single_source urls_and_sources

Errors

HTTP code	Error message
400	Invalid code

Audit history

Request format

GET /audit/{report_id}/history?date=2018-06-01

Request parameters

Name	Required	Description
date	Yes	Date of the audit

Example

{

    “audit_time”: “2023-05-29 00:19:41”,

    “domain_data”: {

        “dt”: 88,

        “domain”: “seranking.com”,

        “domains”: “15135”,

        “expdate”: “2024-09-16”,

        “updated”: “2023-05-29 00:01:03”,

        “backlinks”: “810981”,

        “index_bing”: 545828,

        “all_checked”: true,

        “index_yahoo”: 400372,

        “index_google”: “131473”

    },

    “settings”: {

        “schedule_type”: “week”,

        “schedule_day”: 1,

        “schedule_hour”: 0,

        “schedule_wday”: 1,

        “schedule_wdays”: [

            “1”

        ],

        “schedule_repeat”: 0,

        “schedule_repeat_interval”: 2,

        “send_report”: 1,

        “report_email”: “”,

        “report_emails”: “”,

        “source_site”: 1,

        “source_sitemap”: 1,

        “source_subdomain”: 0,

        “source_file”: 0,

        “check_robots”: 1,

        “ignore_params”: 0,

        “custom_params”: “utm_source, utm_medium, utm_term, utm_content, utm_campaign, cid, PHPSESSID”,

        “user_agent”: 0,

        “login”: “”,

        “password”: “”,

        “max_pages”: 500,

        “max_depth”: 10,

        “max_req”: 500,

        “min_title_len”: 20,

        “max_title_len”: 65,

        “min_description_len”: 1,

        “max_description_len”: 158,

        “max_size”: 3000,

        “min_words”: 250,

        “max_redirects”: 5,

        “disable_audit”: 0,

        “disabled_issues”: [],

        “ignore_noindex”: 0,

        “ignore_nofollow”: 0,

        “max_h1_len”: 100,

        “max_h2_len”: 100,

        “allow”: “”,

        “disallow”: “”,

        “hide”: “”

    },

    “pages_data”: {

        “css_big”: 343,

        “h1_long”: 1,

        “http4xx”: 2,

        “js_many”: 48,

        “links3xx”: 308,

        “image_big”: 2,

        “h2_missing”: 29,

        “html_ratio”: 263,

        “title_long”: 30,

        “amp_missing”: 1,

        “css_not_min”: 1,

        “extlinks3xx”: 424,

        “extlinks4xx”: 10,

        “less_inlink”: 1,

        “redirect3xx”: 13,

        “title_short”: 11,

        “h1_duplicate”: 31,

        “image_no_alt”: 426,

        “same_title_h1”: 1,

        “links_nofollow”: 335,

        “low_word_count”: 11,

        “hreflang_return”: 50,

        “links_no_anchor”: 415,

        “title_duplicate”: 2,

        “description_long”: 110,

        “extlinks_nofollow”: 424,

        “hreflang_xdefault”: 391,

        “blocked_by_noindex”: 59,

        “extlinks_no_anchor”: 60,

        “redirect_temporary”: 5,

        “blocked_by_nofollow”: 3,

        “description_duplicate”: 2

    },

    “totals”: {

        “total_pages”: 500,

        “total_warnings”: 1917,

        “total_errors”: 59,

        “total_passed”: 102

    }

}

Response parameters

Name	Description
audit_time	Audit end time
domain_data	Parameters related to the domain and to the site as a whole
settings	Settings (the parameter may be missing if the site settings were not set separately)
pages_data	Pages check parameters
totals	For more details, refer to GET /audit/{report_id}/report

Table of content

Website audit (standalone)

Running an audit

Request format

Request parameters

Result

Example

Restarting an audit

Request format

Result

List of audits

Result

Renaming an audit

Result

Deleting an audit

Result

Audit status

Result

Audit report

Result

List of pages

Result

Audit history