The Website dashboard is the control center for one saved website in your local Siteimp workspace. It brings together the site’s identity, latest scan summary, ownership state, robots.txt preview, crawl settings, and recent scan history.

This page is intentionally broader than a scan results page. It does not try to show every piece of crawl evidence. Instead, it helps you understand the current state of one website and decide what to do next: run a scan, verify ownership, review crawl expectations, adjust site-specific settings, or open a previous scan.

Think of this page as the operational dashboard for a website. The scan results pages are where the deeper evidence lives.

What this page is for

The Website dashboard exists to answer a few practical questions:

  • Which website am I looking at?
  • What was the most recent scan result?
  • Is the website ready for another scan?
  • Is ownership verified?
  • What does the current robots.txt preview show?
  • Which crawl settings will future scans use?
  • Where can I open recent scan results?

The page keeps those answers together so you do not have to jump straight into a scan before checking the website-level setup.

What you can do here

Review the website identity

At the top of the page, Siteimp shows the website name, start URL, registrable domain, and readiness status.

The Start URL is the address Siteimp uses as the primary entry point for the site. The Domain shows the registrable domain Siteimp associates with the website. The readiness badge gives a quick status such as Ready, Scan running, Scan queued, Needs review, or Stopped.

This top section is meant to confirm that you are working with the correct website before you run a scan or change scan behavior.

Run a scan

The Run scan button starts a fresh scan for this website. When a scan starts successfully, Siteimp opens the matching Scan Results page.

By default, this page starts scans in strict mode. That means Siteimp respects robots.txt unless ownership verification and owner override are configured elsewhere in the website setup.

If Siteimp cannot start the scan, an error appears near the top of the page.

Go back to Websites

The Back button returns to the main Websites page. Use it when you want to switch websites, add another site, or return to the workspace-level overview.

Read the overview cards

The Overview section summarizes the most recent scan.

It can show:

  • Latest scan, including the most recent scan status
  • Pages, counted from the most recent scan
  • Links, counted from the most recent scan
  • Average SEO, based on the latest Lighthouse SEO score summary

If the website has not been scanned yet, these cards show that scan history is not available yet. That is normal for a newly added website.

Manage ownership

The Ownership section shows whether Siteimp has verified that you control the website.

Ownership verification unlocks advanced scanning modes. Until ownership is verified, Siteimp treats advanced scanning as unavailable.

The ownership state is checked again and recorded when a scan starts. That means scan history can preserve the ownership state that applied at the time of a specific scan.

Review robots.txt preview

The Robots.txt preview section checks the website’s current robots.txt file and summarizes what Siteimp sees before scanning.

The preview can show:

  • whether robots.txt is available
  • the matched user agent
  • crawl delay
  • allow and disallow rule counts
  • sitemap locations
  • raw robots.txt content when details are open

This preview is helpful for orientation, but it is not the final scan decision. Siteimp checks robots.txt again right before a scan starts.

Adjust crawl settings

The Crawl settings section lets you adjust this website’s crawl behavior without changing global app defaults.

These settings may include:

  • crawl delay override
  • crawl jitter override
  • max concurrency override, when available

The closed summary shows whether the website is using app defaults or a website-specific override. It also shows the effective delay and jitter values that will become part of the scan’s resolved policy.

Open recent scans

The Recent scans section lists recent scan snapshots for this website. Each row links to a full Scan Results dashboard.

The table can show:

  • scan ID
  • operation ID
  • scan status
  • page count
  • link count
  • average Lighthouse scores
  • creation time

Use this section when you want to revisit previous evidence instead of running a new scan.

How to use this page

A good default workflow is:

  1. Confirm the website name, start URL, and domain.
  2. Check the overview cards to see the latest scan state.
  3. Review ownership if you need advanced scanning options.
  4. Review the robots.txt preview before starting a scan.
  5. Check crawl settings if this website needs special politeness behavior.
  6. Run a new scan or open a recent scan from the table.

For a newly added website, the flow is usually:

  1. Confirm the website was saved correctly.
  2. Verify ownership if you need owner override.
  3. Review robots.txt and crawl settings.
  4. Run the first scan.
  5. Use Scan Results as the evidence hub.

Overview cards

Latest scan

The Latest scan card reports the status of the most recent scan. It may show statuses such as Completed, Running, Queued, Failed, or Aborted.

If there are no scans yet, the card explains that a scan is needed before the website has history.

Pages

The Pages card shows how many pages were recorded in the most recent scan. This is a scan-level count, not a promise about the total size of the website. The count depends on the crawl scope, robots.txt, scan settings, and what was reachable during that scan.

Links

The Links card shows how many links were recorded in the most recent scan. This helps you understand the size of the link evidence collected for the site.

Average SEO

The Average SEO card shows the average Lighthouse SEO score for the most recent scan when Lighthouse data is available.

This is a useful high-level indicator, but it is not the full story. Open the Scan Results dashboard to inspect the underlying evidence.

Website readiness

The readiness badge near the top of the page gives a quick operational status:

  • Ready means the website is available for action.
  • Scan running means a scan is currently in progress.
  • Scan queued means a scan is waiting to run.
  • Needs review means the latest scan failed.
  • Stopped means the latest scan was aborted.

Use this badge as a quick orientation signal before starting more work.

Ownership

Ownership verification proves that you control the website. Siteimp uses that state to decide whether advanced scanning options can be made available.

When ownership is not verified, the section shows Not verified and Advanced scanning unavailable. This does not prevent ordinary strict scans. It means owner override is not available yet.

When you open the ownership details, Siteimp can guide you through available verification methods such as Meta Tag and DNS TXT.

Meta Tag

Meta tag verification is usually the fastest option. Siteimp generates a meta tag that you add to your homepage HTML. After the tag is in place, choose Verify now.

The tag must be present in the server-delivered HTML. If it is added later by client-side JavaScript, Siteimp may not be able to verify it.

DNS TXT

DNS TXT verification is a strong long-term option. Siteimp generates a TXT record name and value that you add to your DNS provider. After the record is in place, choose Verify now.

DNS changes can take time to propagate. If verification does not pass right away, wait and try again.

Scan policy after verification

After ownership is verified, Siteimp can let you choose how future scans behave:

  • Respect robots.txt keeps scans in strict mode.
  • Use owner override allows advanced scanning for the verified website.

For most sites, strict mode is the safest default. Owner override is for sites you own or control where you intentionally want verified-owner scanning behavior.

Robots.txt preview

The robots.txt preview helps you review crawl expectations before starting a scan.

Robots.txt available

This means Siteimp found a robots.txt file and created a preview. Open the details to inspect fetched location, active rules, sitemap entries, and raw content.

No robots.txt found

This means Siteimp did not find a robots.txt file at the expected location. That does not automatically mean the site cannot be scanned. It means the site did not publish a robots file where Siteimp looked.

Robots.txt needs review

This means the file was fetched, but some rules could not be interpreted cleanly. Open the details and review the raw content before relying on the preview.

Robots preview unavailable

This means Siteimp could not preview robots.txt at that moment. The cause may be temporary network trouble, a server response problem, or an unreachable URL.

The preview is still only a guide. The scan checks robots.txt again right before it starts.

Crawl settings

Crawl settings control how politely Siteimp requests pages from this specific website.

Using app defaults

If the section says Using app defaults, this website does not have its own crawl setting override. Future scans use the app-level defaults.

Website override active

If the section says Website override active, this website has its own crawl settings. Those values apply to future scans for this website without changing other websites.

Crawl delay override

The crawl delay is the minimum wait between requests before jitter is applied. A larger delay makes scans gentler but slower.

Crawl jitter override

Jitter adds random extra delay per request. This helps avoid sending requests in an overly mechanical rhythm.

Max concurrency override

When available, max concurrency controls how many crawl requests can run at the same time. A value of 1 is the safest polite default.

Crawl settings not saved

If crawl settings are not saved, check the values and try again.

Delay and jitter must be whole numbers of 0 or higher. Concurrency, when shown, must be a whole number of 1 or higher.

Recent scans

The Recent scans table is the bridge from website-level setup into scan-level evidence.

Each row opens a Scan Results dashboard for that snapshot. The row includes the snapshot ID and operation ID so a scan can be identified precisely during support or debugging.

The Lighthouse columns use short labels:

  • P means Performance
  • A means Accessibility
  • BP means Best Practices
  • SEO means SEO

Scores are normalized to whole numbers. A dash means the score is not available for that scan.

No scans yet

If there are no scans yet, the section explains that the first scan is needed to populate history. Nothing is broken. The website simply does not have scan data yet.

Refreshing recent scans

The Refresh button reloads recent scan history for this website. Use it if a scan just finished or if the table looks stale.

Troubleshooting

Website details did not load

If the website details do not load, Siteimp cannot show the dashboard reliably. Use Back to return to Websites, then try opening the website again.

If the problem continues, contact support and include the website name or the route you were trying to open.

Scan did not start

If a scan does not start, review the error shown near the top of the page. Possible causes include a local database issue, scan setup issue, unreachable site, or scan worker problem.

Try refreshing the page, then start the scan again. If it still fails, contact support and include what happened when you selected Run scan.

Ownership not verified yet

This means Siteimp checked the ownership challenge but did not find the expected verification signal yet.

For meta tag verification, confirm the tag is present in the server-delivered homepage HTML.

For DNS TXT verification, confirm the record name and value match the generated challenge and allow time for DNS propagation.

Ownership check failed

This means Siteimp could not complete the ownership check. Review the displayed error and try again.

If it continues, contact support with the website, verification method, and what happened.

Robots preview unavailable

This means Siteimp could not preview robots.txt right now. You can still try again later. The scan will also check robots.txt before it starts.

Recent scans did not load

If recent scans do not load, use Refresh. If the error continues, the local scan history for this website may need review.

Where to go next

From the Website dashboard, the next most common destinations are:

  • Websites, if you want to switch sites or return to the workspace overview
  • Scan Results, if you want to inspect the evidence from a completed scan
  • Ownership details, if you need advanced scanning options
  • Crawl settings, if this site needs different politeness behavior

The Website dashboard is the setup and history hub for one site. Scan Results is where the evidence becomes detailed, inspectable, and ready for decisions.