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How website audits work and what they cost

Whether audits use AI credits, how page limits work, what subdomains are, and how often you can re-audit your site.

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Written by Debasis Chattaraj

Do website audits cost money or credits

Website audits do not use AI credits. They have their own separate limit called page audits.

Each page that gets scanned counts as one audit. If your site has 50 pages and you run a full audit, you use 50 page audits from your monthly allowance.

Page audit limits by plan

  • Starter: 500 pages per month

  • Pro: 2,000 pages per month

  • Scale 1: 3,000 pages per month

  • Scale 2: 6,000 pages per month

  • Scale 3: 9,000 pages per month

  • Scale 4: 20,000 pages per month

What counts as a page

Any URL that the crawler discovers and analyzes counts as one audit. This includes:

  • Your homepage

  • Blog posts

  • Product pages

  • Category pages

  • About us, contact, and legal pages

If your site has 200 pages, one full audit uses 200 page audits. You can audit the same site multiple times per month as long as you stay within your limit.


What are subdomains and should I audit them

A subdomain is a section of your website with its own prefix. For example:

  • blog.yoursite.com is a subdomain of yoursite.com

  • shop.yoursite.com is another subdomain

  • www.yoursite.com is also technically a subdomain

Should you audit subdomains

It depends. If your blog, shop, and main site are separate experiences with different content, you might want to audit them separately. If they are all part of the same site and share the same content strategy, audit them together.

In SnowSEO, you can:

  • Click the Subdomains button to see detected subdomains

  • Add custom subdomain hosts manually

  • Choose which subdomains to include in your audit

  • Exclude subdomains you do not want to track

By default, SnowSEO audits your primary domain. You need to explicitly add subdomains if you want them included.


How many times can I re-audit

You can run a new audit manually anytime by clicking Audit Now. Each new audit counts against your page audit limit.

Example

Your plan includes 500 audits per month. Your site has 100 pages.

  • First audit: 100 pages used, 400 remaining

  • Second audit: 100 pages used, 300 remaining

  • Third audit: 100 pages used, 200 remaining

You could audit the same site 5 times in one month before hitting your limit.

Automatic re-audits

You can also turn on Always-On Audit in Settings → Automation. This automatically recrawls your site on a schedule:

  • Every day

  • Twice every day

  • Every other day

  • Every 3 days

  • Every 7 days

  • Every 14 days

The available frequencies depend on your plan. Automatic audits count the same as manual audits against your monthly limit.


How is the audit score calculated

Your Site Health Score is a number from 0 to 100 based on three categories.

Technical (infrastructure)

  • Can Google crawl and index your pages?

  • Is HTTPS set up correctly?

  • Are there broken links, redirect chains, or crawl restrictions?

  • Are important pages accidentally blocked by robots.txt?

  • Are there server errors?

Content Quality (on-page SEO)

  • Do all pages have unique title tags?

  • Are meta descriptions present and well-written?

  • Are headings structured properly (H1, H2, H3)?

  • Do images have alt text?

  • Is there thin content (under ~300 words)?

  • Is there duplicate content?

GEO (AI visibility)

  • Does the content use structured data and schema markup?

  • Is the content formatted so AI crawlers can understand it?

  • Are there FAQ sections or HowTo markup?

  • Is the content clear and factual enough for AI platforms to cite?

Score ranges

  • 90 to 100: Excellent. Your site is technically clean.

  • 70 to 89: Good. A few things need attention.

  • 50 to 69: Needs work. Some issues are hurting your performance.

  • Below 50: Critical. Serious problems need immediate fixes.

Each issue is weighted by impact. A broken link on 50 pages hurts your score more than a single missing alt text.


What about pages that were not crawled

Sometimes pages appear as Not Crawled or are missing from your audit report entirely.

Why pages might not be crawled

  • The page is not linked from any other page on your site (orphaned page)

  • The page is in your sitemap but the crawler could not access it

  • The page returned a server error during the crawl

  • The page is on a subdomain you did not select

  • The page is in your Excluded URLs list

What to do

  • Check the Sitemaps section to make sure your sitemap is detected

  • Verify the page is linked from at least one other page on your site

  • Make sure the page is not blocked by robots.txt

  • Add the page URL manually to your sitemap if needed

  • Remove the page from Excluded URLs if it was accidentally blocked

If a page is important for SEO but keeps showing as Not Crawled, check that it returns a 200 status code and is accessible without login or authentication.

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