Website health check.
Enter a web address and we load the page once, the way a search engine would, then tell you what is sorted and what is still open.
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What it checks.
Reach and security
- Whether the page loads, and through how many redirects
- A valid HTTPS certificate
- Plain HTTP sent on to HTTPS
- The header that tells browsers to stay on HTTPS
Speed
- How long the server takes to answer
- Whether the page is compressed on the way
- Scripts that hold up the first paint
- Images with no size set, which make the page jump
Search
- Title and description, and whether they fit a search result
- One main heading, a language and a mobile viewport
- Nothing telling search engines to stay away
- A sitemap, alt text, structured data and a social card
What it cannot tell you.
- It reads one page, once, from our server. A visitor on a phone at the far end of a slow connection sees something different.
- It reads the page as it is sent. Anything a script adds afterwards is not seen.
- It does not judge the writing, the design, the keywords or who links to you. That takes a person.
- For lab speed figures on a simulated phone, run the same address through Google’s PageSpeed Insights.
Further reading
- article 5 min read An SEO checklist for a small business website What a small business website needs in place before any SEO work pays off, taken from Google’s own guidance, with the items you can skip.
- article 5 min read A website maintenance checklist for business owners A website needs attention after launch. What to check each week, month, quarter and year, and what to ask whoever looks after it.
- article 5 min read Why your website isn’t ranking on Google Four causes explain most websites that do not show up in Google. How to check each one, in the order that saves the most time.
Related
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- Email domain check SPF, DKIM and DMARC for your domain: can somebody else send email in your name?
- Domain and certificate expiry check When the certificate runs out and when the domain is due for renewal, before either takes the site down.
- Essential Eight assessment Twenty-four statements, about five minutes, and an estimated maturity level for each strategy.
Tell us what needs sorting.
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