How to Navigate the Dashboard

Overview

The CrawlSage dashboard serves as the central control console for your technical SEO campaigns. Once logged in, you can monitor your domain's health score, check active audit feeds, review AI recommendations, and apply automated code corrections.

Prerequisites

• An authenticated account session.
• Access to the main dashboard portal at app.crawlsage.com.

Navigating the Interface

1. Analyze the KPI Overview:

   The top section contains four metrics cards presenting a high-level summary of your project health:

   • SEO Health Score: A weighted ranking score (0-100) reflecting sitemap compliance.
   • Issues Found: The current count of technical SEO errors and warnings.
   • Pages Crawled: Total index pages crawled during the most recent run.
   • SEO Fixes Applied: Cumulative count of tags injected by the CrawlSage plugin.
2. Review the Onboarding Wizard (First-Time Users Only):

   If you have not added a website, the onboarding card will display prompts to walk you through configuring your domain. Click "Create First Project" to proceed.

3. Inspect SEO Recommendations:

   For returning users, the dashboard displays prioritized SEO corrections. Each recommendation includes:

   • Severity Badge: Critical (red), Warning (amber), or Notice (blue).
   • Impact and Confidence Rating: Calculated expected SEO benefits.
   • Target Path: The page URL affected.
   • Action Buttons: Click "Review Details" to see side-by-side diff previews, or "Apply Fix" to queue injection.
4. Monitor Recent Runs:

   The bottom panel lists details of recent audit runs. Review this feed to track historical progress, verify run states, and compare scores across dates.

Expected Result

You will have a clear overview of website issues, pending optimizations, and historical progress. This allows you to plan your SEO workflow and monitor the status of ongoing audits.

Best Practices

• Check Recent Runs Weekly: Track the scores curve to ensure no new errors have crawled into production templates.
• Assign Action Reviews: Assign developer team seats to inspect critical code suggestions before sending updates to live pages.

Common Mistakes

• Reviewing metrics on empty dashboards: If you delete a project, all historical runs list data will clear. Workspace metrics reflect active projects only.
• Ignoring critical badges: Always address critical bugs (like canonical loop issues or robots blockages) before reviewing notices or structural schema cards.

Troubleshooting

• Dashboard is blank or metrics show zero:
  1. Verify that you have created a project. View your sites in the Websites portal.
  2. If you have configured a project, click "Run New Audit" to start the crawler. Metric values will populate once the scan finishes.