What you see
Wherever you would otherwise watch a spinner (the free audit and the free site audit, the scan panel, adding a project, re-checks and Buy an audit) you see one line while your work waits:
You're in the queue: number 3, about 4 minutes.
- The time is worked out from how long the same kind of work really took over the last week. When there is too little to go on it says a few minutes, never a made-up number.
- On a paid plan, or for a bought audit, it says Priority queue.
- On the free audit, the free plan or a trial it says Paid plans go first. with a button to see the plans.
- You only ever see your own place. Nobody sees other people's websites, names or how much they have waiting.
- Once your work starts, the usual progress takes over.
Who goes first
- Someone waiting on a screen (a free audit, a bought audit, a re-check) goes before scans, and scans go before background checks.
- Inside each, paid work goes before free work.
- Workspaces take turns, so one account with many websites cannot hold everyone else back.
- Then the oldest first.
Free work that has waited 20 minutes (a setting SEOmise can change) is treated like paid work, so it never waits for ever.
How many at once
A few scans run at once on the whole platform, and one at a time per workspace (three on agency plans). Your plan can allow more. Free audits have their own small number at once, so they stay quick.
When it is very busy
If many free audits are waiting, the free audit page offers We're busy right now: leave your e-mail and we'll send the result. The audit carries on in the queue and the report is e-mailed when it is ready. You can close the page.
Good to know
- A scan never reads less because it waited: it starts with its full page limit when its turn comes.
- Pages that need our browser keep their own waiting time; a page not rendered in time keeps what the plain read found, as before.
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