PDF Export
How to export SitePulse audit results as a branded PDF report — what's included, how to customize it, and download options.
PDF Export generates a formatted, printable report of an audit's results. Use it to share results offline, attach to client deliverables, or archive a point-in-time snapshot of scores.
Generating a PDF
On any completed audit's detail page, click Share & Export → Download PDF.
The PDF generates in the browser (typically under 5 seconds for a standard URL audit). A download prompt appears when generation is complete.
What the PDF includes
| Section | Contents |
|---|---|
| Cover page | Project name, URL audited, audit date, overall score |
| Executive Summary | Top 5 Critical Issues and Top 5 Quick Wins — the highest-impact findings, one line each, meant to be read in under a minute |
| Score summary | Overall score gauge + six category scores as a table |
| Performance | Core Web Vitals metrics table, plus Opportunities and Diagnostics evidence tables (see Performance Score) |
| SEO | All SEO metrics, rubric scores, recommendations, and ready-to-paste JSON-LD snippets for any missing structured data |
| GEO | GEO rubric breakdown, lint violations, GEO strategies |
| Best Practices | Lighthouse checks summary plus a Security Headers table |
| Accessibility | Accessibility check results |
| Content Quality | Readability metrics, content depth findings, and an E-E-A-T table (see below) |
| Action Plan | Every finding restated as Issue → Impact → Fix → Effort, grouped by severity (Critical, High, Medium) instead of a flat list |
| Footer | Page number, generation date, SitePulse branding |
Executive Summary: Top 5 Critical Issues & Quick Wins
The first page after the cover is built for someone who will only read one page: the five most urgent problems, and the five easiest wins available right now. Both lists pull from the same underlying findings as the rest of the report — they're a curated view, not separate analysis — so following either list through to the full Action Plan always lines up.
The Action Plan
Further down, every recommendation across every category is consolidated into one severity-grouped Action Plan: Critical issues first, then High, then Medium. Each row shows the Issue, its Impact, the recommended Fix, and an Effort estimate, so the report reads like a punch list your team (or a client's developer) can work through directly, rather than a set of scores to interpret.
E-E-A-T table
The Content Quality section includes a table scoring your page against Google's four E-E-A-T pillars — Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, Trust. Where SitePulse has a real signal to measure (for example, HTTPS and About/Contact pages for Trust, citations for Authoritativeness, author identity for Expertise), it's scored. Where there's no reliable signal to measure from — for example, first-hand "Experience" — the table honestly shows Not measured rather than guessing.
JSON-LD snippets
If your SEO results show missing or incomplete structured data, the PDF includes ready-to-paste
JSON-LD snippets for the missing schema fields, pre-filled with known values from the audit (page
title, canonical URL) where available. Copy them directly into your page's <head>.
Branding
If your organization has configured white-label branding, the PDF uses your logo and brand colors on the cover page and header. See Branding Customization.
Without custom branding, the PDF uses SitePulse's standard branding.
PDF file naming
The downloaded file is named:
<project-slug>_audit_<YYYY-MM-DD>.pdf
For example: acme-coffee_audit_2026-05-13.pdf
Technical details
PDFs are generated server-side using WeasyPrint. The output is a single-column layout optimized for A4 / Letter paper at 96dpi. Charts (score gauges) are rendered as SVG and embedded directly in the PDF, so they render crisply at any zoom level.
Print from browser
You can also print the audit detail page directly from the browser (Cmd+P / Ctrl+P). The page includes a print stylesheet that hides navigation, sidebar, and action buttons, and formats the content for print. This is a lighter alternative to the full PDF export when precise formatting is not required.
Sitemap audit PDFs
For sitemap audits, the PDF includes a summary of the parent audit (aggregate scores across all child URLs) and a per-URL score table. Individual child audit PDFs must be downloaded from each child audit's detail page separately.