How to audit your sites using Perno Check?

Sites audit doesn't just check whether a page loads - it crawls a website end-to-end, following internal links and images to catch anything broken along the way. Once you add a site, it's audited automatically once a week, so problems surface on a regular schedule without you needing to run checks manually.

What is sites audit for?

Sites audit lets Perno Check crawl a website, map its internal pages, and inspect every link and image it finds for broken responses. Use it to catch broken links and missing images across a whole site, rather than checking pages one by one.

Switching to the Perno Check context

Site audits are managed from the Perno Check context. If a different context is currently active, switch to Perno Check first:

Click the Context switcher in the top navigation bar.

Select Check from the list.

The dashboard now shows live data for the Perno Check context, including your audit sites, audited pages, broken links, and broken images.

Adding a site to audit

Click Sites audit in the left sidebar.

Click Add audit site. You can also start from the + button in the bottom-right corner, which offers Add Site Audit as a shortcut from anywhere in Perno Check.

Fill in the details:

Field	Description
Name	A label to identify the site in your list.
URL	The root website to crawl during audits.
Timeout seconds	How long to wait for a response before treating a page, link, or image as broken.
Maximum pages	The maximum number of internal pages to crawl during one audit.
Active	A checkbox that turns this audit on or off.

Click Save audit site to start auditing it, or Cancel to discard it.

Note: once a site is saved, Perno Check audits it automatically once a week. There's no need to trigger a crawl manually.

The site now appears in your list, along with its last audit date and a running count of pages, broken links, and broken images. Use Details to open it, Edit to change its settings, or Remove to stop auditing it:

Reviewing an audit site

Click Details next to a site to open its summary - pages crawled, broken links, broken images, and when it was last audited. Below that, two sections give more detail:

URL exceptions - links and images matching a pattern you define are skipped completely and never counted as broken.
Audit runs - each completed crawl is listed here; open a run to see its pages, links, and broken items.

Adding a URL exception

Some links change on every crawl or are expected to fail a plain request - for example, email-obfuscation links. Add an exception so they're skipped instead of reported as broken:

Click Add exception on the audit site's detail page.

Enter the text to match in URL contains. Any link or image URL containing this exact text is skipped; the comparison is case-insensitive.

Leave Active checked to apply the exception, or uncheck it to keep the rule saved but inactive.

Click Save exception. It now appears in the URL exceptions list, where it can be edited or removed:

Clicking Remove next to an exception asks for confirmation, since the matching URL pattern will be checked again during future audits once removed:

Editing an audit site

Click Edit next to a site in your Sites audit list to change its name, URL, timeout, maximum pages, or active status, then click Save audit site to apply the changes:

Deleting an audit site

To stop auditing a site:

Click Remove next to the site in your Sites audit list.

A confirmation dialog appears, naming the audit site to be removed:

Click Delete audit site to permanently remove it, or Cancel to keep it and close the dialog.