Reading your results
Health score, severities, and how a check differs from a page.
The health score
A single 0–100 figure for the site, weighted by severity: a critical failure costs more than a standard one, and a check that fails on every page costs more than one that fails on a single page.
It is there for the trend, not the absolute value. A score moving 78 → 71 between scans is worth investigating; 78 on its own is not a target to optimise.
Severities
- Critical — search engines cannot index or understand the page correctly. Fix first.
- Important — a real ranking or presentation problem, but the page still works.
- Standard — worth fixing, rarely urgent.
Severity belongs to the check, not to your site: a missing canonical is always critical, whether it happens once or a thousand times.
Checks and pages are two views of the same data
Every finding links a check to a page.
- Come from the Issues tab and you are asking "what is wrong with this site, and how widespread is it".
- Come from the Pages tab and you are asking "what is wrong with this URL".
Both reach the same findings. Use the first to plan work, the second when you are fixing one page.
What a check being named after the good state means
Checks are written as the state you want — "No broken internal links", "Canonical tags on all pages". Appearing in your issue list means the check is failing, which is why every row is labelled Failing and shows the concrete finding underneath.
Nothing in the list is ever something you already do correctly. If a check passes, it is simply absent.