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Audit scheduling: automate your SEO audits

Scheduled audits re-run a site automatically, daily, weekly or monthly, so you see problems without remembering to check, and the site's score builds up a history you can follow over time. Each schedule is called a monitor. Monitors are available on every plan.

Creating a monitor

  1. Open Monitoring → Scheduled Audits in the sidebar.
  2. Click Add Monitor.
  3. Enter the Site URL and, optionally, a Label such as the client’s name.
  4. Choose the Interval (daily, weekly or monthly), the time of day, and the day of the week or of the month (1-28).
  5. Choose Pages to crawl: 20, 30 (default), 50 or 75.
  6. Set up alerts and the PDF report (below), then click Save Monitor.
Daylytix scheduled audits: daily, weekly and monthly re-audits per client site with the next run, last score and alerts
Scheduled Audits. Each monitored site with its interval, the next run, the last score and its alerts.

Alerts

SettingWhat it does
Alert if score drops by at least ... pointsAlerts when the score falls by this much compared with the previous run (default 5).
Alert on new critical issuesAlerts when the run finds critical issues that were not there before.
Performance Budget AlertsAlerts when LCP, CLS, or the mobile or desktop score crosses a budget you set. See Performance budgets.
Alert emailWhere alert emails go. Sent through your own SMTP settings.
Slack Webhook URLPosts the same alerts to a Slack channel.

Every alert is also listed in Monitoring → Alert Center, whether or not you set an email or Slack destination.

Daylytix Alert Center: score drops, new critical issues and performance budget alerts from scheduled audits
Alert Center. Score drops, new critical issues and performance budget alerts from your scheduled audits, in one list.

Automated PDF report

Tick Enable under Automated PDF Report and enter the Report recipient email. After each run, the PDF of that audit is emailed to this one address. The report recipient and the alert email are separate fields, so a client can get the report while alerts come to you.

Emails need your SMTP settings. Reports and alert emails are sent through your own mail server. Add the SMTP host, user and password in App Settings → Notifications first, or nothing is sent. See Automated email reports.

Managing monitors

Each monitor row shows the interval, the next and last run, the last score and the status. The buttons on the row:

  • ▶ Run - runs the audit now.
  • - re-sends the PDF of the last run (shown when the report is enabled and the monitor has run at least once). You can change the recipient before sending.
  • Edit, pause and delete.

Every run is saved like a normal audit, so it appears in Portfolio and Score History, and you can compare two runs in Compare Audits.

Tips

  • Weekly is enough for most sites; use daily around a release or migration.
  • Keep the page count the same between runs so scores stay comparable.
  • Schedule runs at a quiet time for the site’s server.
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