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A snapshot is a complete re-run of the audit pipeline for every URL in your project: fresh crawl, fresh AI responses, fresh analysis. Snapshots are what make zued a measurement tool, not just a one-time audit.

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What happens in each snapshot

  1. Re-crawl — every URL is fetched fresh with a real browser
  2. Re-chunk — page content is re-segmented and re-processed
  3. Re-dispatch — all prompts are sent to AI engines again, 10 times per engine (fresh responses)
  4. Re-analyze — alignment and technical scores are recalculated against the fresh content
Prompts aren’t regenerated on their own. The same prompts run every week, which is what makes the trend line meaningful — you’re measuring the same thing each time. The one exception is deliberate: if you’ve edited a persona or a prompt since the last snapshot, zued rebuilds only the prompts affected by that change and leaves every other prompt untouched. Earlier snapshots always keep the prompts and results they ran with.

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What you can track

  • Alignment Score per URL over time — did a content update move the needle?
  • Technical Score changes — did fixing a robots.txt issue resolve the bot accessibility problem?
  • Quick Wins resolved — which recommendations have been actioned, and did scores improve?
  • Visibility trends — Share of Voice and Citation Share over time

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Snapshot history

Your trend lines and per-URL scores are kept long-term, so week-over-week comparisons stay intact. The full underlying detail for older snapshots — the individual AI responses and their analyses — is eventually pruned once a snapshot ages out of the retention window.