## **🧐 What Does a Zero Healthy Pages Score Mean?**

If your Site Audit shows **0 healthy pages**, it does not necessarily mean your site has no healthy content. In most cases, this reading appears because the audit has not yet completed its full crawl, the results have not been refreshed after a recent crawl, or all crawled pages currently have at least one flagged issue preventing them from being classified as healthy.

A page is only counted as healthy when it passes **every** technical check in the audit. Even a single minor issue — such as a missing meta description or a slow load time — moves that page out of the healthy category.

## **⚙️ How to Diagnose the Zero Score**

1. **Check the crawl status.** Navigate to your Site Audit dashboard and confirm the crawl shows a **Completed** status. If the crawl is still running or was interrupted, wait for it to finish and then refresh the page.
2. **Review the total pages crawled.** If the crawled page count also shows zero, the crawler may not have been able to access your site. Verify that your robots.txt file is not blocking the Search Atlas crawler and that your site is publicly accessible.
3. **Look at issue distribution.** Open the **Issues** tab within Site Audit. If every page carries at least one flagged issue, that explains the zero healthy count. Focus on resolving the most common issues first to move pages into the healthy column.
4. **Re-run the crawl.** If you recently made fixes to your site, the current results will not reflect those changes. Trigger a new crawl by going to **OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Overview (Website Overview)** and clicking **Recrawl Site** and allow it to complete before reviewing your scores again.

## **📋 Understanding the Pruning Report**

The **Pruning Report** is the **Page Pruning** page inside Site Audit (OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Page Pruning for the selected audit) and is designed to help you identify pages that may be diluting your overall site quality. It groups pages into categories based on their performance signals, such as low traffic, thin content, or poor engagement metrics.

Here is how to use the pruning report effectively:

- **Review each category separately.** Pages are grouped by the type of concern — for example, low organic traffic, duplicate content, or no inbound internal links. Work through one category at a time rather than trying to address everything at once.
- **Decide on an action for each page.** For every page flagged, you have three main options: **Improve** the page by adding value, **Consolidate** it by merging it with a related page, or **Remove** it if it provides no value and cannot be improved.
- **Use the status column.** Mark each page with your chosen action inside the report. This helps you track progress and keeps your audit organised over time.
- **Do not delete pages impulsively.** Always check whether a flagged page has any inbound links, conversions, or direct traffic before deciding to remove it. The report highlights candidates for pruning — the final decision is yours.

## **✅ How to Improve Your Healthy Pages Count**

Raising the number of healthy pages is a gradual process. Follow these steps to make consistent progress:

1. Open the **Issues** tab in Site Audit and sort issues by **pages affected** to find the highest-impact problems.
2. Address widespread technical issues first — such as missing title tags, broken internal links, or pages returning error status codes — because fixing one issue type can unlock healthy status for many pages at once.
3. After making changes on your site, return to Site Audit and run a new crawl to update your results.
4. Repeat this cycle regularly. Aim to schedule crawls at least once a week so your healthy pages metric stays current.

## **💡 Tips for Keeping Your Score Accurate**

- Make sure the correct domain is connected and verified in your project settings before running a crawl.
- If your site uses JavaScript-heavy rendering, some pages may not be fully crawled. Check your crawl settings and ensure the crawler is configured to handle your site's technology.
- Keep your crawl frequency consistent. Infrequent crawls mean the data you see may not reflect recent improvements or regressions.

## **🛠️ Still Seeing Zero After a Full Crawl?**

If your healthy pages count remains at zero after completing a fresh crawl and you have confirmed there are no blocking issues on your site, our team can investigate the crawl data directly. If you need further assistance, open the chat widget in the bottom-right corner of the platform and type **human teammate** to be connected with a member of our team.