{"id":182809,"date":"2024-11-27T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-27T13:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/?p=182809"},"modified":"2025-04-09T04:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:45:57","slug":"always-on-audit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/always-on-audit\/","title":{"rendered":"Always-on Audit (AOA): The Future Of Automated Website Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"
What if you had a system that worked around the clock to ensure your website\u2019s SEO health stays in top shape? <\/div>\n

Imagine a tool that automatically crawls your site 24\/7, identifies critical issues as soon as they pop up, and sends real-time alerts for your most important pages \u2013 helping you fix problems before<\/em> they impact your rankings.<\/p>\n

Meet: Always-on audit<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

<\/a>What is Always-on audit? (AOA)<\/h2>\n

Always-on audit<\/strong> is a new state for crawling your website in Site Audit.<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s designed to act as a real-time alerts system, a \u201csafety net\u201d for critical issues that might otherwise go unnoticed.<\/p>\n

In short, it constantly crawls your website at a moderate speed to catch and report technical SEO issues for your most important pages as quickly as possible \u2013 unlike traditional crawlers which report them on a weekly or monthly basis.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a>How does Always-on audit work?<\/h2>\n

Always-on audit constantly crawls new and known URLs \u2014 24\/7, at a moderate speed.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s designed to complement scheduled audits, helping you bridge the gap between them.<\/p>\n

Scheduled audits are still your go-to for quickly gathering primary data about your website. Once done, AOA automatically kicks in, using that data to decide which pages to prioritize and recrawl.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why when you stop an Always-on audit and start a new crawl, Site Audit will first run a quick normal crawl to index your website before<\/em><\/strong> switching to Always-on audit.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

If new URLs are found on page, they will be extracted, batched up, and crawled later according to the existing crawl queue and their importance.<\/p>\n

In fact, our AhrefsSiteAudit<\/a> crawler uses several key metrics and signals to determine which pages to crawl and when, like:<\/p>\n