Multitalented free tool
SEO Site Checkup is the Swiss Army Knife of free SEO tools: along with on-page factors it checks loading speed, security, mobile-friendliness, and more.
I gave it a trial spin on one of our websites that was built around 1998 and only minimally updated since: IrelandTourismCentre.com , which looks like this:
To start the analysis, just go to https://seositecheckup.com, enter your site URL and click Checkup!:
After just a few seconds, the tool comes back with an overall grade (0-100) and counts of passed and failed checks and warnings:
Following that, the tool presents first COMMON SEO ISSUES, beginning with:
Other checks in this section (most of which our site passed) include:
- Most common keywords test
- Keywords usage test
- Keywords cloud test
- Heading tags test
- Robots.txt test
- Sitemap test
- SEO friendly URL test
- Image ALT test
- Inline CSS test
- Deprecated HTML tags test, which our site failed:
The tool found our page to have 6 instances of the HTML 4 underline tag (<u>), now deprecated.
Behind that HOW TO FIX button is this helpful information:
Then, continuing, the tool shows more results of COMMON SEO tests:
- Google Analytics test
- Favicon test
- JavaScript error test
- Social media test, which our site FAILED because social media hadn't yet been invented when it was built.
NEXT, the tool presented results of SPEED OPTIMIZATIONS tests:
- HTML page size test
- HTML compression/GZIP test
- Site loading speed test
- Page objects test
- Page cache test
- Flash test
- CDN usage test (A CDN is a Content Delivery Network - search on Google for explanation)
- Image caching test
- JavaScript caching test
- CSS caching test
- JavaScript minification test
- CSS minification test
- Nested tables test
- Frameset test
- Doctype test
- URL redirects test
Next up are SERVER AND SECURITY tests:
- URL canonicalization test
- HTTPS test
- Safe browsing test
- Server signature test
- Directory browsing test
- Plaintext emails test
Then, MOBILE USABILITY tests:
- Media query responsive test
- Mobile snapshot test, which looked like this:
Next, ADVANCED SEO tests:
- Structured data test
- Custom 404 error page test
- Noindex tag test
- Canonical tag test
- Nofollow tag test
- Disallow directive test
- SPF records test
And finally a summary of high-, medium- and low-priority fixes recommended:
How cool is that? And free! A premium version is available for $24.95 a month that will let you do 300+ reports per month.
(As usual, no one has compensated me for this review. I just like the product.)
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