Health Score

Health Score is a single, representative metric from 0 to 100 that summarizes your website’s structural and technical quality.

How it works

Crawlith calculates your score after a crawl by weighting several categories of checks:

Critical Issues: Broken links, server errors, and crawl traps. These have the highest negative impact on your score.
SEO Fundamentals: Missing titles, meta descriptions, or H1 tags.
Content Quality: Word counts, text-to-HTML ratios, and thin content detection.
Structure: Redirect chains, canonical errors, and orphaned pages.

90 - 100 (Excellent): No critical issues and highly optimized structure.
70 - 89 (Good): Generally sound structure, but some technical warnings exist.
50 - 69 (Fair): Multiple technical issues that need attention soon.
0 - 49 (Critical): Major structural blockers found that require immediate fixing.

A clear score helps teams:

Benchmark Quality: Measure site health before and after significant updates.
Automate Audits: Use --fail-on-critical in CI/CD pipelines to block releases if the score drops.
Prioritize Tasks: Focus first on the issues that are dragging the score down the most.

Health scoring is enabled by default during crawl:

crawlith crawl https://example.com

The CLI will print a summary table of the score breakdown upon completion.