Application Layout

The Title Bar

When you launch Website Auditor, you will see the Title bar in the upper-left corner. Here's the information the title bar carries:

• the domain name of the currently open project (if applicable);
• the name, extension (.wsa) and location of the file on your computer (for saved projects);
• application name and version number.

The Menu Bar

The Menu bar offers a set of drop-down menus that give access to WebSite Auditor settings and project preferences:

• File: (basic commands related to project files: opening, closing, saving, etc.).
• Preferences: access to general project and global software settings. There you may configure crawler settings, preferred search engines, sitemap and robots settings, set up a scheduled task etc.
• Window: list of supported software shortcuts and key combinations to switch between sections or quickly access some menus.
• Help: contains your WebSite Auditor license info, links to help resources.
• Projects: a drop-down to switch between currently open projects.
• New: create a new project.
• Open: load an existing project from your hard drive or from SEO PowerSuite Cloud.
• Save: save currently open projects.
• Close: close currently open projects.

The Side Menu

The Side menu allows you quickly switch between different modules:

• Site Structure: contains the modules with all pages and all resources found on the website, a visual representation of the site structure, and an audit dashboard listing all SEO factors checked for the site.
• Content Analysis: contains the modules for on-page analysis and in-app optimization, TF-IDF analysis, page-specific reports.
• Domain Strength: a general domain report that shows how your website’s ‘strength’ grows over time.
• Reports: a module to generate and deliver reports to your clients.

Buttons and Controls

Site Structure module

• Rebuild Project: re-crawl the site completely to collect all pages and resources anew (with other crawler settings, or after fixing any errors).
• Update Pages: update any specific factor(s) for selected pages.
• Sitemap: create a sitemap featuring any pages from your project.
• Robots.txt: create a robots.txt file and configure its rules.
• Add Pages: add any pages to your project manually.
• Custom Search: use custom search operators to find any piece of content on your site.

Content Analysis module

• Pages: switch between analyzed pages from the current project.
• Add Page: analyze a new page.
• Remove Page: remove the current page from Content Analysis.
• Update Analysis: update content optimization, technical factors or competitors’ analysis for the current page.
• Update icon: update the given factor for the current page.

Domain Strength module

• Update: update all the factors and re-calculate Domain Strength.
• Cogwheel icon: configure the list of SEO factors included into the module.
• Export icon: quickly export the results into CSV.

Reports module

• Publish: export the report using a publishing profile (e.g. email to clients, upload to a site).
• Share: share the report via a shareable link.
• Quick Save: save to your hard drive (no publishing profile required).
• Print: print the report.
• Click the + button to create a new report template.
• Click the star button to fill out your company info to brand the reports.

Managing Workspaces

Each WebSite Auditor project contains a set of predefined workspaces under the Pages section, The workspaces contain the list of pages that have been collected by Website Auditor when scanning your website,and also a default set of columns that focus your attention on different aspects of website optimization:

• On-page factors;
• Links and Technical factors:
• Social Media popularity;
• Traffic stats;
• Structured Data markup and Open Graph.

All workspaces are customizable and allow adding or removing any columns from the table. To edit a workspace click the small arrow button and it will unfold the dropdown menu with the following options:

• Edit workspace - you will be able to add or remove columns from the current workspace;
• Clone workspace - create one workspace with the same set of columns:
• Copy workspace to another project - you can copy the current workspace to any other Website Auditor project;
• Remove - delete the current workspace from the project. 

To quickly sort out records in a workspace it is possible to use the quick and advanced filters: