This article explains how to initiate a recrawl of your website and trigger a manual reprocess of your audit data in Search Atlas. Use these steps when your audit results feel outdated, changes you've made aren't reflected, or you want to force a fresh analysis of your site.
🛠️ Step-by-Step
- Log in to your Search Atlas account and navigate to your project's site audit area. Depending on your plan and setup, this is typically accessible from your main project dashboard.
- Open the audit report for the website you want to recrawl. Look for the site or domain you wish to update in your project list.
- Navigate to OTTO SEO → Site Audit → Overview (Website Overview) and locate the Recrawl Site button. This is usually represented by a refresh button near the top of the audit report page, often next to the last crawl date or crawl status indicator.
- Click the recrawl button to initiate a new crawl. The platform will begin re-scanning your website pages. Crawl time varies depending on your site's size — larger sites may take several minutes to complete.
- Once the crawl has finished, locate the Reprocess option. This step re-analyzes the newly collected crawl data and updates all audit scores, issue counts, and recommendations. The reprocess button is typically found in the same audit controls area, often labeled Reprocess or Recrawl Site.
- Click Reprocess (or its equivalent) to trigger the manual reprocessing. Wait for the platform to confirm the reprocess has completed before reviewing your updated results.
✅ How to Confirm It Worked
After completing both steps, confirm the recrawl and reprocess were successful by checking the following:
- The Last Crawled or Last Updated timestamp on your audit report should reflect today's date and the approximate time you initiated the recrawl.
- Your audit scores, issue counts, and page-level data should reflect any changes you made to your site since the previous crawl (for example, fixed issues should no longer appear as errors).
- If a progress bar or crawl status indicator was visible during the process, it should now show a Completed or Done status rather than a pending or in-progress state.
- If issue counts or scores appear unchanged and the timestamp has not updated, wait a few minutes and refresh the page, as large sites may take additional time to fully reprocess.
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.