A technical SEO audit can report 97% health and still miss the one defect that should stop a release.

An accidental noindex on a key template, an empty application shell, a canonical pointing at a redirect, or a production firewall blocking required resources does not become less serious because 43 other checks are green.

That is the problem with audit scores: they compress different risks, evidence levels, and unknowns into one reassuring number.

I would rather have an audit that answers six harder questions:

What exactly did we test?