Auditing
An audit that starts by reading pages finds what its reader already suspected. An audit that starts from the numbers finds what nobody was looking at.
The order below is the method, not a menu:
Read the numbers before reading a page. Metrics and behavioural detectors say where people are being lost; neither says why.
Say what is actually wrong there. Content detectors read the page itself; choosing a lens picks the two or three deeper readings your question and your evidence actually call for.
Say it in the language of the business. A finding nobody can act on is a number, not a finding.
Has a change like this ever worked? — and afterwards, did this one?
The pages#
what each number settles, and the four ways to be confidently wrong with one.
what readers actually did.
what is wrong with the page itself.
the router over the fourteen readings.
the claims that decay without anybody committing anything.
turning a number into something a business acts on.
declaring what the docs were supposed to achieve, then reading it.
the readers who never arrived, and the pages that were never written.
closing the loop on a change you shipped.
Docsbook's own analytics are documented separately in Analytics and SEO; this section is about the judgement, not the dashboard.