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Before your next audit: 5 quick checks so the run is not wasted
A free audit is only useful if it looks at the site you actually want to check. On AuditLixa’s free plan you get 2 audits a day, so a run on a half-finished change is a run wasted. Five quick checks before you start will save you that second run.
1. Publish your changes first. Save the page, publish the post, and make sure the change is live — not still sitting as a draft. An audit can only check what visitors can already see.
2. Make sure the site is reachable. If your site is temporarily down or still in maintenance mode, the report will reflect that moment, not your usual site. Wait until it loads normally, then run the audit.
3. Run it after a real change. A redesign, a theme or plugin change, a big content update, or a migration are all good reasons for a fresh audit. Running the same unchanged site again usually gives you the same answers you already have.
4. Note what changed since your last run. A one-line note — ‘changed the homepage layout’ or ‘fixed the mobile menu’ — makes the new report much easier to read. You can see at a glance whether the change helped or created a new issue.
5. Fix first, then re-run to confirm. Work through the issues that appear every time before chasing a single number, make the fix, and then run the audit again to check it worked. That second run is how you know a fix is real, not guessed.
An audit is a checklist, not a grade. Used at the right moment — after a real change, on a live site, with a note of what changed — it tells you exactly what to fix next, and the re-run tells you whether the fix worked.
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