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title: "The metrics look wrong: check Audit Scope first"
description: "If the page metrics look inflated, noisy, or inconsistent with the real article, check your current Audit Scope before assuming the analysis is broken. - **Page Audit** includes the entire document. - **Content Audit** isolates the core article and removes boilerplate.…"
url: "https://scrizen.com/docs/troubleshooting/the-metrics-look-wrong-check-audit-scope-first/"
updated: "2026-03-29"
category: Troubleshooting
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# The metrics look wrong: check Audit Scope first

If the page metrics look inflated, noisy, or inconsistent with the real article, check your current Audit Scope before assuming the analysis is broken.

- **Page Audit** includes the entire document.
- **Content Audit** isolates the core article and removes boilerplate.
- **Navigation Audit** focuses on menus and structural links.

In many cases, distorted density or phrase metrics are caused by analyzing the wrong scope rather than by a platform error.