Exporting your report.
A full HTML report, a spreadsheet with one row per fix, or a PDF you print from your browser. All free — and always your latest audit, so save the file if you want a before-and-after.
Every SEO audit can leave the app as a file — a complete report you can send to a developer, a spreadsheet you can assign out, or a PDF you can attach to an email. Exporting is free and costs no credits.
The Export button sits at the top of the SEO Score tab. It gives you three options.
Three formats
| Format | What it is | Use it when |
|---|---|---|
| HTML report | A single self-contained web page. Downloads as a file. | You're handing the whole thing to a developer or an agency. |
| Spreadsheet (CSV) | One row per fix, then one per passed check. | You want to sort, filter, or assign fixes to people. |
| Print / PDF | The same report, opened in a tab, with the print dialog fired for you. | You need something to attach to an email or a report. |
All three are generated on the spot from your most recent audit. Nothing is stored, nothing is shared: the export is behind your login, so the link only works for you. It is not a public link you can send to someone — send them the file.
HTML — the full report
This is the one to hand over. It's a standalone page — open it in any browser, no ScoutRival account needed — and it contains everything the fix board shows you in-app, in a readable order:
- The scorecard — your score out of 100, the letter grade, the verdict, and how many pages were audited out of how many were discovered.
- The pillar breakdown — each pillar's score, checks passed, and points still available.
- Every fix, in full — why it matters, the numbered steps, the copy-paste code, where to change it, a link to the relevant doc, and the affected URLs (the first 25 are listed, with a count of the rest).
- What's working — every check you passed, grouped by pillar. Worth keeping: it's the half of an audit nobody sends you.
The file is named after your brand and the date, so exports don't overwrite each other:
seo-audit-your-brand-2026-07-12.html
The app is available in 20 languages. The exported report is not — it's English regardless of the language you use ScoutRival in.
CSV — one row per fix
Open it in Excel, Google Sheets, Numbers, or drop it into a project tracker. Every fix is a row, followed by every check you passed (marked Passed, worth 0 points), so the file is a complete record rather than just a to-do list.
Site, Section, Check, Severity, Status, Points to gain, Detail, How to fix, Affected URLs, Docs
- Points to gain is the number to sort by — it's what the fix is worth to your score.
- How to fix holds the numbered steps, joined with a pipe character so they survive a single cell.
- Affected URLs lists up to 50 pages per fix, separated by semicolons.
Sort by Severity, then by Points to gain, descending. The top ten rows are your next sprint. Everything below the fold can wait for the one after.
PDF — you print it, not us
Be clear about what this does, because it surprises people: we don't render a PDF on our server. Picking Print / PDF opens the report in a new tab and, a moment later, fires your browser's own print dialog. In that dialog, choose Save as PDF as the destination.
That's a deliberate choice — your browser makes a better PDF than a server-side renderer, and it means the export never queues. Two things follow from it:
- Let the pop-up through. The report opens in a new tab. If your browser blocks it, nothing appears to happen.
- Keep “Background graphics” on in the print dialog. The severity chips and the code blocks are colour-coded; without background graphics they print grey.
If the print dialog doesn't fire on its own, the report is still sitting there in the tab — just press Ctrl+P (or Cmd+P).
Always the latest audit
An export always contains your most recent audit for the brand you're on. There is no per-audit history export: you can't go back and export the audit from three weeks ago, and there's no archive of past exports.
If you want to prove the improvement to a client or a boss, export before you start fixing things and keep that file. Once you re-run the audit, the old report is no longer reachable from the app.
If you haven't run an audit yet, the export answers with “No audit yet — run an audit first.” Run one →