Free SEO Audit for WordPress Sites
WordPress ships SEO-neutral and then accumulates problems through plugins, themes and years of edits. Duplicate archive pages, a caching layer that never quite works, and an SEO plugin configured once in 2019 are the usual findings. This audit reads the live HTML rather than the plugin dashboard, so it reports what Google actually receives.
Why wordpress sites struggle with SEO
Category, tag, author and date archives are indexable by default, so one post can exist at five crawlable URLs.
Page builders (Elementor, Divi, WPBakery) emit deeply nested markup and multiple render-blocking stylesheets, which is the most common cause of a failing Largest Contentful Paint.
An SEO plugin set up years ago is still emitting a site-wide meta description template nobody has re-read.
What we typically find on wordpress sites sites
- Indexable tag and date archives duplicating post content
- Uploaded images served at full resolution with no WebP or srcset
- Multiple SEO plugins active at once, producing two canonical tags
- Attachment pages indexable, each holding a single image and no content
- jQuery and unused block CSS loaded on every page, including the homepage
How we check this
Nothing on this page is estimated. When you submit a URL the audit engine fetches the live page and runs the same probes on every site — the list above is simply the subset that fails most often on wordpress sites sites.
- Server-side HTML fetch: title, meta description, headings, canonical, hreflang, robots directives and internal links are parsed from the response body.
- Google PageSpeed Insights: Core Web Vitals (LCP, CLS, INP) and the mobile render, pulled from the free public API.
- Structured data: every JSON-LD, microdata and RDFa block is parsed and checked for the types this industry needs.
- Crawlability: robots.txt rules, sitemap presence and reachability, HTTPS and certificate validity, and a sampled internal-link check for 404s.