How to Use the CrawlHunt Chrome Extension

This guide walks through installing the CrawlHunt SEO & AEO Audit extension, scanning a page or a whole website from the Chrome side panel, and reading the results, PageSpeed and Search Console data.

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Before You Start

What you'll need

Google Chrome (or another Chromium browser that supports the Chrome Web Store)

A CrawlHunt account is optional: a single-page scan works without one

A CrawlHunt account to scan a whole website, or to open PageSpeed and Search Console

Don't have a CrawlHunt account yet? Create one for free before you begin.

In This Guide

7 steps to get set up

01Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store
02Open the side panel on any website
03Choose what to scan
04Follow the scan's progress
05Read the Overview tab
06Review the Issues tab
07Sign in for PageSpeed and Search Console

Step-by-Step Guide

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Follow each step in order. Open any screenshot at full size to see the details.

01Step 1 of 7

Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store

Open the CrawlHunt SEO & AEO Audit listing on the Chrome Web Store and add it to Chrome.

Open the CrawlHunt SEO & AEO Audit page on the Chrome Web Store

Click Add to Chrome and confirm

Click the puzzle-piece icon in the toolbar and pin CrawlHunt so it is always one click away

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02Step 2 of 7

Open the side panel on any website

Go to the website you want to check and click the CrawlHunt icon. The audit opens in a side panel next to the page, so you can keep browsing while you read the results.

Open any website in the current tab

Click the CrawlHunt icon in the toolbar

If that page or website was scanned before, its earlier results appear straight away. Opening the panel never starts a new crawl by itself

03Step 3 of 7

Choose what to scan

If there are no results yet, the panel asks what to scan. Nothing is scanned until you pick one of the two options.

Scan Current Page checks only the page open in the tab. It is free, needs no account and does not use one of your project slots

Scan Website crawls the website up to your plan's page limit. The panel shows the limit for your plan, or the Free plan's limit if you are not signed in

Use Scan again at any time to scan afresh. Cancel keeps the results you already have

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04Step 4 of 7

Follow the scan's progress

The panel shows how many pages have been scanned out of the scan's page limit, for example 1 of 100 pages. You can close the panel while it runs: the crawl continues on CrawlHunt's servers, and reopening the panel shows its progress.

A one-page scan shows 0 of 1 page and finishes within moments

A website scan can take a few minutes, depending on its size

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05Step 5 of 7

Read the Overview tab

When the scan finishes, the Overview tab shows the SEO health score with the number of errors, warnings and opportunities, key metrics such as pages crawled, broken links and HTTPS coverage, and a content health summary.

The score and the three counts at the top tell you at a glance how healthy the page or site is

Key metrics and content health show image alt text, meta descriptions and title tags coverage

For a single-page scan, the page's own title, description, H1, canonical, indexation, images and links are listed further down

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06Step 6 of 7

Review the Issues tab

The Issues tab lists everything the scan found, grouped as errors, warnings and opportunities, and you can filter by type.

Select an issue to see the affected URLs

Use the results in your CrawlHunt dashboard to fix issues in bulk or with AI suggestions

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07Step 7 of 7

Sign in for PageSpeed and Search Console

Without an account the extension is read-only: PageSpeed and Search Console are locked, and links ask you to log in. Sign in to your CrawlHunt account to unlock them and to scan whole websites.

Click Log in in the panel. It opens CrawlHunt in a new tab

Open the Page Speed tab for Mobile and Desktop Core Web Vitals

Open the Search Console tab and click Connect Google account to see clicks, impressions and queries for your sites

If your current results come from a scan made before you signed in, the Search Console tab asks you to scan again with your account first. Click Scan with my account

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Ready to run your first SEO audit?

Open CrawlHunt to start auditing, or head back to the integration overview.

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