First, check what was inspected
Open the audit for the selected project and read its run date, final URL and status. A result for one page is not evidence about every page on the website. If the request failed or returned an access restriction, resolve that uncertainty before treating absent elements as confirmed SEO defects.
Use severity to organize the work, not as a forecast of traffic. A warning on an important service page can matter more to your workflow than a similar warning on an obsolete URL.
Turn one finding into an actionable task
Expand the finding and record the affected page, the element or source text and the suggested correction. For an image with missing alt text, identify the exact image in its page context; do not paste the same keyword phrase into every image. Useful alt text describes the image's purpose in context. Decorative images need a different accessibility decision, not a generic sales phrase.
For a heading or canonical warning, inspect the actual heading text or URL before editing. Do not automatically remove useful content just to reduce a counter.
A reproducible before-and-after example
The controlled report below uses Bostic's real parsing and finding rules on saved HTML. It compares alt presence, H1 count and canonical presence. The original input has two warnings and one informational finding; the corrected input passes those three checks.
That does not establish a whole-site health score, a ranking improvement or an accessibility certification. It demonstrates the smaller claim you can verify: these specific elements changed in this saved example.
Publish the fix, then check the same scope
Save the change in your website's CMS and make sure it reaches the public page. Bostic's guidance does not publish changes to your website for you. If the finding offers a focused check, use it to verify the affected page; otherwise rerun the relevant audit within your plan allowance.
Keep the original evidence and compare like-for-like checks. A fixed element is a verified technical improvement, not proof that Google has recrawled the page or changed its ranking. Review remaining warnings separately instead of marking the whole project finished.