Silkpath User Guide
The Silkpath User Guide explains how to audit a website with Silkpath in two illustrated parts. Part 1 covers every feature, screen and button. Part 2 explains the report: every section, column and filter, and what each check means. Both parts open inside the app and as PDFs you can save or print.
Quick start: audit a website in five steps
- Open Silkpath at silkpath.netlify.app. The start screen connects to the crawler server, which can take up to a minute to wake up.
- Enter the website address, for example
example.com. Open Crawl Options to set a page limit, parallel requests or a delay. - Press Start Crawl. The Scan Queue shows each domain's progress, and you can queue more than one.
- Read the report. The Overview shows the site health score and the biggest problems. Each tab (Crawl, On-page, Links and Media, Markup, AI Search) lists the pages that fail a check.
- Filter and export. Click a filter chip to see one problem at a time, then export the section, the tab or the whole report as PDF, Excel or CSV.
Part 1: Features and functions
About 120 pages, with a picture of every screen and a close-up of every button. Open Part 1 as a PDF.
- What Silkpath is, and how its parts fit together (the app, the crawler server and cloud storage)
- A map of the app, Quick Find, and the password screen
- Quick start, the home screen, and what happens with a website Silkpath cannot read
- Crawl options and crawl limits
- The report: the Overview, how the health score works, and every section
- Compare Crawl and the Link Graph
- Exporting and sharing, history, cloud storage and the Recycle Bin
- Scheduled crawls and auto re-crawls, including while the app is closed
- Settings, and the optional Google checks (PageSpeed, Safe Browsing, AI visibility)
- Roles and responsibilities, rules, acceptable use, data and privacy, security and retention
- Troubleshooting, a glossary, and every button with its picture
Part 2: The data and the filters
About 130 pages that explain every section of a report, every column and all 192 filters. Open Part 2 as a PDF.
- How to read a report
- The Overview and All Issues
- The Crawl tab: All URLs, Status Codes, Security, Indexability, Canonicals, XML Sitemaps, PageSpeed
- The On-page tab: Page Titles, Meta Descriptions, Headings, Mobile, Accessibility, Content
- The Links and Media tab: Internal Links, All Links, External Links, Images, JS and Resources, Link Graph
- The Markup tab: Structured Data, Open Graph and Twitter, hreflang
- The AI Search tab: AEO, GEO, AI Visibility
- The Crawl Log tab: Custom Extraction and the Crawl Log
- The Compare Crawl tab
- Words used in the data
Reading the guide inside the app
In Silkpath, open Settings and choose User Guide. The guide opens in a large window with a search box that searches both parts, a chapter list, zoom buttons and a "Save or print (PDF)" link. Close it with the cross at the top right or the Escape key.
Questions and answers
Where is the User Guide in the app?
Open Settings and choose User Guide, Part 1 or Part 2. It opens in a large window inside the app.
Can I print the guide?
Yes. Both parts are PDFs: use the "Save or print (PDF)" link in the guide window, or the PDF links on this page.
Audit a website with Silkpath
Enter a website address and Silkpath crawls every page, then reports SEO, AEO and GEO problems page by page, with PDF, Excel and CSV exports.