Summary of work done

Reviewed the Screaming Frog 5/8/26 audit folder, parent agent instructions, May 9 external-reference pass, and May 10 external-link validation, source-location, candidate, and autosave-staging artifacts. Created a local status report at /Users/samaguiar/Documents/Codex/technical-seo/status-reports/screaming-frog-5-8-26-unaddressed-2026-05-10.md.

Current remaining items

• /contact-us/ still returns 403 live with a browser-style user agent. The original crawl showed 1,488 inlinks. This remains the clearest live blocker.
• External links: May 10 validation checked 461 URLs and found 33 true-broken external URLs. Autosaves exist for 15 old URLs across 13 pages/posts, but those are not published. 18 true-broken external URLs remain unstaged.
• External uncertainty: 29 timeout-uncertain, 7 manual-review, and 68 crawler-blocked or rate-limited rows remain review-only. They should not be bulk-edited from crawler status alone.
• Internal 4xx update: /about-us/ and ?page_id=5835 now resolve live to /about-us/meet-our-team/, so those do not appear to remain active blockers. /contact-us/ does.
• Other audit families still appear unaddressed in this folder: 168 internal redirect rows, 4 noindex rows, 110 PageSpeed scores below 90, 339 LCP rows over 2.5s, 48 TBT rows over 200ms, 26 CLS rows over 0.1, 28 images over 100 KB, 10 title threshold rows, 8 meta-description threshold rows, 14 long H1s, and 9 low-content rows.

Reason for ending session

The requested status check is complete. No live WordPress publishes or homepage changes were made. Notion export and local report were created so another agent can continue without redoing the reconciliation.

Suggested next steps

A good next pass would keep this ordered: contact-us Cloudways/edge access fix first; then publish or rebuild the already-staged true-broken external-link autosaves through the safe WordPress deployment path; then research the remaining 18 unstaged true-broken external URLs; then batch the PageSpeed/security/internal-redirect/metadata families separately.

Handoff notes

Use the project folder as the source audit snapshot and the local report above as the compact summary. The May 10 file true_broken_staged_body_replacements_2026-05-10.csv is the active staging file. The combined_staged_body_replacements_2026-05-10.csv file is explicitly superseded and should not be published. Treat the external crawler-blocked rows as review-only unless browser validation also fails. Avoid direct published post_content writes; use the safe draft/autosave/deploy path.