Findings and fixes
What happens after you mark a fix applied, and how Shruwd decides whether it worked.
A recheck is how Shruwd answers the only question that matters after you make a change: did it work?
Access findings do not need one. Their fix shows up in your own logs, robots.txt or page, and Shruwd resolves them when it does — see How findings work.
What happens after you mark a fix applied
- Your current numbers are captured as a baseline — the metric values, their intervals, the sample size and the timestamp. This is the "before" the recheck compares against.
- Shruwd waits 14 days. AI answer surfaces re-crawl and re-index on their own schedule. Rechecking on day two measures nothing and would report a false did not move.
- A recheck cycle runs on the prompts the finding affects, at nine repetitions instead of the usual three. A small prompt subset needs the extra sampling for the result to be conclusive either way, and because the subset is small it is cheap.
- The verdict appears in the finding's Closed tab.
Mark the fix applied only once the change is live. The baseline is captured at that moment, so marking it early compares your change against itself.
Reading the verdict
| Verdict | Meaning |
|---|---|
| resolved | The numbers moved, and the movement passed both gates |
| did not move | The recheck ran and the change was not big enough or not distinguishable from noise |
The prompts are compared together and one by one. Together is the fix's own claim — it was made for those prompts — and it is the comparison a recheck can usually decide: one prompt alone rarely has enough answers to show anything but a very large change. A fix aimed at one prompt still counts if that prompt moves on its own.
Did not move is a real result, not a failure of the product. Most single-page changes do not shift a prompt-set-wide number by five percentage points, and saying so is the whole reason for measuring.
A finding marked did not move re-opens after 30 days if the condition still holds, noting that the previous fix did not work.
Why a fix that looks like it worked is not called movement
The verdict uses the same rule as everything else in Shruwd: the intervals before and after must not overlap, and the change must be at least five percentage points, after correcting for the fact that many prompts are being checked at once.
See When a number has moved for the full rule.
If the provider changed its underlying models between the baseline and the recheck, the comparison is marked model changed — the difference may be the new model rather than your fix.
Recheck limits
Rechecks are capped per month by plan.
| Plan | Rechecks per month |
|---|---|
| Crawl | None |
| Starter | 1 |
| Pro | 6 |
If you are out, the finding waits until next month and says so on the fix panel. Spend them on findings where you actually changed something substantial.
Next steps
- How findings work — the full finding lifecycle
- When a number has moved — the movement rule
- Plans and limits — what your plan includes