Understanding Your Report
This guide explains how SiteCurl scores work, what severity levels mean, how change detection tracks your progress over time, and what each plan includes. Use it as a reference any time you need help reading your audit results.
How your score is calculated
Your score is the share of checks that passed. It is rounded down to a whole number. If your site passes 45 out of 50 checks, your score is 90.
A score of 100 means every check passed. Most sites score between 50 and 80 on their first scan. Even small fixes can raise your score by several points.
AI Readiness checks are not part of the score. They get their own rating: Strong, Needs Work, or Weak.
The score is a snapshot. It shows how your site looked when the scan ran. Run a new scan after you make fixes to see your updated score.
Severity levels
Each finding has a severity level based on its impact:
- Critical: Big issues that hurt your site's security or search rank. Fix these first.
- Warning: Issues that may affect users or rankings. Important, but less urgent.
- Info: Passing checks and minor notes. No action needed.
Use the filter pills at the top of each report to show only critical issues. Critical findings are shown open with fix steps included.
What partial scans mean
Sometimes a scan only finishes part way. This can happen when:
- The target site is slow to respond
- A network error cuts the scan short
- The site blocks automated requests
When this happens, the checks that did finish are still saved. You can see them in the report. Running the scan again usually fixes the issue.
Page limits by plan
Each plan has a limit on pages per scan. SiteCurl finds pages from your sitemap or homepage links.
| Plan | Pages per scan |
|---|---|
| Starter | 5 |
| Pro | 25 |
| Studio | 50 |
Most issues come from shared templates. A broken meta tag on your home page usually shows up on other pages too. Scanning a few key pages catches the same issues as scanning thousands. You get results in seconds, not minutes.
Change detection
Each scan is compared to the one before it. The site detail page shows:
- How many issues were fixed since the last scan
- How many new issues showed up
- Whether your score went up, down, or stayed the same
This lets you see the impact of your fixes at a glance. The score trend chart shows your recent scores over time. You can tell right away if your site health is getting better or worse.
Automated scans
Pro and Studio plans let you set up weekly or monthly scans. Pick the schedule on the site edit page. Scans run on their own, and results show up in your scan history like normal.
Manual scans work on all plans. To set up a schedule, you need Pro or Studio.
Score drop alerts
If your score drops by 10 or more points, you get an email alert. This helps you catch problems fast, even when scans run on their own in the background.
Score drop alerts work on Pro and Studio plans. You can turn them on or off in your settings.
AI Readiness
AI Readiness is a beta feature on Pro and Studio plans. It checks the SEO and content fundamentals that AI tools, like Google AI Overviews, rely on when reading your site:
- Heading order and content layout
- Structured data like JSON-LD
- Trust signals such as about and contact pages
- Whether search engines can index your pages
Google's guidance is that no special AI optimization is needed beyond good SEO. AI Readiness checks those fundamentals, plus a few emerging signals some AI tools experiment with.
The rating (Strong, Needs Work, or Weak) is separate from your main score. It looks at what your site has right now. It does not predict how AI tools will rank or cite you.
Exporting your report
Every report has a unique link you can share. The person you send it to does not need a login.
Pro and Studio plans include PDF and CSV export. PDF gives you a clean report for clients. CSV gives you a spreadsheet of all findings for your own review. Look for the export buttons in the report header.
Questions?
Get in touch if anything in your report is unclear.