Audit Technical SEO

Use this skill with the SEO Analyst role to perform technical audits of crawlability, bot governance, URL canonicalization, redirect graphs, sitemap hygiene, and Core Web Vitals. While optimize-seo manages keyword intent and on-page content briefs, audit-technical-seo engineers technical health, crawler efficiency, and infrastructure readiness for traditional search engines and AI discovery bots.

When to Use

• diagnosing crawl budget waste, server latency bottlenecks, or spider traps
• verifying robots.txt accessibility for AI search crawlers (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot-Extended, Bingbot) and Googlebot
• auditing XML sitemaps for syntax compliance, URL freshness, and non-200 exclusions
• resolving canonical loops, self-canonical errors, or cross-domain canonical mismatches
• detecting multi-hop redirect chains, 302 temporary redirect leaks, and 404/410 status codes
• assessing Core Web Vitals (LCP <= 2.5s, INP <= 200ms, CLS <= 0.1) and SSR/hydration overhead
• emitting machine-readable contracts/schemas/seo-audit-report.json with technical escalation tickets

Core Rules