A recheck is a new measurement by Atlas, the research engine developed by Outseen, after a website has been changed. Atlas runs the same check again on the same page and records the outcome, with source, URL and time of measurement. That shows whether the technical issue found earlier was resolved at the time of the recheck.
Why does it matter?
A change in the CMS does not always mean the website returns something different. A setting can get stuck in a cache, or a plugin can add the same instruction again. A recheck looks at what the website actually returns, not at what the admin screen shows. Because Atlas records what it found in both measurements, you can put the first measurement and the recheck side by side.
Example
- Atlas finds a
noindexin the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header of a services page. - Outseen’s specialist establishes that the instruction is unintended, and the header is changed.
- Atlas checks the same page again. If the
noindexis gone, the issue is resolved at that recheck.
What does a recheck not tell you?
A recheck concerns the technical point that was checked, at that moment. It does not say that the page is in Google, how high it ranks or whether an AI assistant mentions it. Whether Google includes the page again depends on when Google recrawls it. See also technical finding and How Atlas investigates a website.