What is the Site Health Score?
The Site Health Score is a 0–100 number that reflects your site's overall technical condition. It's based on how well your pages are structured and accessible to search engines. A higher score means fewer technical obstacles between your pages and search visibility.
Is my score good? What counts as healthy?
Generally: 90 and above is healthy, 70–89 has room for improvement, and below 70 warrants attention. The score measures technical shape — the issues list beneath it is where the actual growth opportunity lives, since each fix helps a specific page show up for more searches.
A site with a health score of 92 can still have errors and warnings to address, but they're within reach.
How can I have a high score and still have hundreds of warnings?
They measure different things. The score looks at your site as a whole. The issue count tallies every instance of every finding across every page — one issue type showing up on 50 pages counts as 50 instances.
A high score with a lot of findings is normal and means your foundation is sound; the findings are opportunities, not emergencies.
What's the difference between errors, warnings, and notices?
Errors are problems that actively hurt your search performance and should be addressed first.
Warnings are issues that hold pages back — they're not breaking anything, but fixing them helps.
Notices are informational findings that are worth knowing about and good to fix when you can, but they're the lowest priority of the three.
What are the red banners at the top of my Overview?
Those are catastrophic findings — site-level problems significant enough to affect your entire site rather than just individual pages. Examples include your homepage being blocked from Google, a failed crawl, or an expired SSL certificate. These are surfaced prominently because they need attention before anything else.
Why are my error and warning count numbers different at the top than they are in the Issues section?
We're summarizing your overall error, warning, and notice counts at the top--this is every instance we found even if it's repetitive. If we can flag an issue, it's counted.
At the bottom, we've collected all of those instances into a named issue like (for example) "meta description is too long." That counts as one warning, even if you have 18 pages with meta descriptions that are too long.
I have 142 warnings. Is my site really that broken?
No. That number counts every instance across every page. The actual list of issue types is much shorter, and most of them can be fixed automatically — your fixes are already written. A large count means a large opportunity, and most of the work is already done for you.
What should I actually do first?
Start with any catastrophic findings shown at the top of your Overview — those are site-level and take priority. After that, move to your fixes: they're already written and sorted by impact. The "Errors" tier is where to focus first, then work through warnings at whatever pace fits your schedule.
Does the score update in real time?
The score updates after each completed crawl, not continuously. Running a new crawl after making changes will give you a fresh score reflecting the current state of your site.
What does the trend line show?
The trend shows your Site Health Score across your last several crawls, so you can see whether your site is improving over time. Issue counts trend the same way, giving you a before/after picture as you work through fixes.
We'll need three separate crawls before this appears as an actual chart. It will be a placeholder until then.