A technical SEO audit examines your website’s technical features to ensure they are set up in a way that helps search engines understand and index your content. It helps identify any technical issues preventing your website from ranking well in search results.

To conduct a technical SEO audit, you will need to use special tools to analyze your website’s technical features, such as its loading speed, mobile-friendliness, and security. You will then create a report that identifies any issues and recommends ways to fix them.

To get you started, here are three lists of suggested tools:

Check the Loading Speed of a Website

There are many online tools that you can use to check the loading speed of a website. Some popular ones include:

1. Google PageSpeed Insights: This tool analyzes the content of a web page, then generates suggestions to make that page faster.
2. Pingdom Website Speed Test: This tool lets you test the loading speed of a website and provides a detailed report on the site’s performance.
3. GTmetrix: This tool analyzes the loading speed of a website and provides recommendations for improving its performance.
4. WebPageTest: This tool allows you to test the loading speed of a website and provides a detailed breakdown of the components contributing to its loading time.
5. YSlow: This tool analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high-performance web pages.

To use these tools, enter the URL of the website you want to test, and the tool will do the rest.

Check the Mobile-friendliness of a Website

There are many online tools that you can use to check the mobile-friendliness of a website. Some popular ones include:

1. Google Mobile-Friendly Test: This tool checks if a page is mobile-friendly by analyzing its content and providing a report on any issues it finds.
2. MobileMoxie Mobile Simulator: This tool allows you to test how a website looks on various mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets.
3. Responsive Design Checker: This tool allows you to enter a website’s URL and view the site in various screen sizes to see how it looks on different devices.
4. W3C Mobile Checker: This tool checks the mobile-friendliness of a website by analyzing its HTML and CSS code.
5. HubSpot Website Grader: This tool checks the mobile-friendliness of a website and provides a report on its performance, including any issues it finds.

To use these tools, enter the URL of the website you want to test, and the tool will do the rest.

Check the Security of a Website

There are many online tools that you can use to check the security of a website. Some popular ones include:

1. Qualys SSL Labs: This tool analyzes a website’s SSL/TLS configuration and provides a detailed report on its security.
2. SecurityHeaders.io: This tool checks a website’s HTTP response headers to see if they are properly configured for security.
3. Mozilla Observatory: This tool includes recommendations for improving the website’s security, such as enabling secure connections, properly configuring HTTP headers, and configuring server-side security measures.
4. SSL Trust: This tool tests your site against a collection of third-party tools/blacklists
5. Sucuri Site Check: This tool provides a results page highlighting the tests you’ve passed and any areas where you could improve your security.

To use these tools, enter the URL of the website you want to test, and the tool will do the rest. It is important to note that no website is entirely secure, and these tools can only check for known vulnerabilities. It is always a good idea to keep your website and software up to date to help protect against new threats.

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