Site intelligence

Quorl - the whole-site audit

Quorl crawls your whole site and reports what is wrong on each page and across pages - broken links, duplicate titles, thin sections, redirects - for a site you have proved is yours.

Quorl is the site audit built into Mastheads. It crawls your whole site and reports what it finds - the problems on a page, and the problems that only show up between pages, which a tool that reads one page at a time cannot see: duplicate titles, thin sections, broken links, redirects, the same wording repeated across a template.

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Prove the site is yours first

Quorl only crawls a site you have proved you control. The proof is Google Search Console: connect it for the domain, and Google's own verification is what tells Quorl the site is yours. A web address typed into a form is not enough, because a crawler that takes anyone's word for it is a crawler pointed at other people's sites.

You can connect Search Console from the Quorl page itself. Quorl checks the proof when a crawl starts and again while it runs.

Before a crawl starts

Quorl checks five things before it reads a single page:

the domain is in your account
your plan includes audits
the web address answers
you have proved control of it
you have audits left this billing period

What a crawl gives you

An overview - the site's shape and health at a glance, every number traced to what the crawler actually read.
A table of every page crawled - filter and sort it, and export it to Excel from your browser.
An issue list - what is wrong, on single pages and across the site. Where a check could not run, it says so rather than guessing.
Page detail - one page's full picture, including what links to it and what it links to.
Common phrases - wording repeated across your site, which is how templated pages and thin variations show themselves.
A crawl map - the site drawn as the crawler walked it.
A comparison of two crawls - what was fixed, what broke, what appeared and what disappeared since last time.
Crawl history - every past crawl of every proved domain, kept, so progress is something you can measure.

How much it reads

A crawl asks for your whole site, up to a ceiling of 5,000 pages. The report records the ceiling that was actually applied. A very large site that was cut short says "stopped at" and the number, rather than showing as a whole site with nothing wrong.

How many audits you get

Plan	Audits per billing period	Pages per audit
Trial and pay as you go	5	up to 100
Starter	2	whole site
Growth	10	whole site
Pro	25	whole site

A domain with its autonomous newsroom switched on and Search Console connected is also re-crawled once a month in the background, free of your allowance. That crawl keeps the newsroom's memory of your site and its trusted outlets up to date.

How the crawler behaves

Quorl's crawler, QuorlBot, is polite and limited by design:

It reads robots.txt before anything else, and obeys it.
It only asks for pages. It never submits a form, signs in or changes anything.
It stays on one site. Links elsewhere are recorded, never followed.
It does not follow redirects. It notes where a redirect points and stops.
It never touches private or internal network addresses.

It renders pages in a real browser, including JavaScript, so it sees what a visitor sees. If someone has found QuorlBot in their logs and wants it gone, the Quorl feature page explains how to turn it away.