There are many website analyzer tools out there but I found one of the best and simplest to use. This tool can do a lot of things and it does them very well.
This amazing tool is Checkbot and it analyzes your website, gives it a score, finds issues, and shows you what should be fixed.
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What Is Checkbot
Checkbot is a website analyzer tool and it’s a Google Chrome extension. You can add it to your Chrome and analyze any website for free.
This is a premium tool and it costs $10 per month but you can use it for free. The free version crawls 100 URLs per crawl and you can check unlimited websites unlimited times.
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And the great thing about Checkbot is that it is a 3 in 1 tool. It analyzes websites for SEO, security, and speed. So, you don’t need three separate tools anymore. You get everything in one place.
And it does the job amazingly. I love this tool. It has a very beautiful interface and gives you a detailed description of every issue, explains what it is, and also gives your website a score.
Here is the list of some issues that Checkbot can find for you:
SEO
- Broken links
- HTML Validation
- Title Issues
- Page Duplication
- Sitemap Issues
Security
- HTTPS Issues
- XSS Protection
- Password Issues
- Content Sniffing
- Response Headers
Speed
- Minification Issues
- Cache Issues
- Gzip Compression
- Render Blocking
- Redirects
So, you can clearly see the full picture of your website and start fixing the issues and optimizing your website. Great helper tool for every website owner or SEO specialist.
Also, on their website, they have a very good explanation of every issue and you can learn a lot about the best web practices.
So, let’s dive in and see how the Checkbot website analyzer tool works.
How To Use Checkbot
First of all, you have to install it on Google Chrome. Go to Chrome Extensions and install it. You will see all your extension in the upper right corner of Google Chrome. Next to your other extensions.
In order to analyze any website, open the Checkbot extension, paste the website URL and it will start analyzing right away. Alternatively, you can go to the desired website, click on the extension icon and it automatically inserts the URL.
In 10 or 20 seconds, depending on the website size, it will finish analyzing process and open the results page.
On the dashboard, you will see the overall score of your website and the score for each category: SEO, security, and speed.
Now let’s see how this website analyzer works.
How Does Checkbot Work
The way Checkbot works is that on the left sidebar there are sections for each parameter and inside these sections, you can see what is working and what needs fixing.
Also, you can see what pages, files, links were crawled. Which pages are indexed, does robots.txt work, are there broken links, etc. This website analyzer can do a lot of good things.
These are the parameters that Checkbot analyzes your website for:
SEO
- Page Titles
- Page Headings
- Descriptions
- Duplicate Content
- Page Content
- URL Names
- Code Validation
- Links
- Robots.txt
- Redirects
Speed
- Page Size
- JavaScript
- CSS
- Redirects
- Caching
Security
- HTTPS
- HSTS
- Content Sniffing
- Misc
And you can clearly see the green checkmarks and red percentages. Of course, green checkmarks mean that everything is OK, but red means that there are some issues.
If you click one of them, on the right side you will see the corresponding problematic URLs or pages. And you will see the description of this particular issue on the top.
For example, if I click on use optimal length titles, it shows all the pages it crawled and one of them has too long a title. Now, I can easily go to my website and shorten it.
So, in a similar way you can go through every issue and fix them. Great thing is that it is very detailed and you can clearly see what causes the problem and how to fix it.
Some of the issues are very easy to fix like titles, descriptions, and various SEO problems, but some need more knowledge and different tools.
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For example, if your site has issues in the security department, then the security plugin Defender can fix most of the problems such as XSS protection, HSTS issues, clickjack issues, etc.
So, some issues can be fixed manually but some of them may require a plugin. But the main goal is that you can analyze your website and very clearly and easily find and fix issues.
Checkbot Free vs Premium
If you want more options, you can upgrade to a premium plan of Checkbot. They have monthly and yearly plans. It’s affordable and you get more page crawls and other perks.
Here is the list of features you get with a premium plan:
- 10 000 URLs per crawl
- No ads
- Localhost URL crawl
- PDF report
- CSV export
- HTTP auth password
- URL skipping
- User agent
If you need these website analyzer features, you can upgrade to a pro version. But for small websites, free is enough. The most useful feature of the pro version is the number of URLs it checks and the ability to crawl localhost URLs.
Conclusion
As you can see, Checkbot is an amazing website analyzer tool that can find issues very fast. This is totally free for unlimited websites and crawls. The only limitation is that it only checks 100 URLs per crawl.
You can always upgrade to a pro version but a free version should be enough for most websites. Install it and start analyzing unlimited websites.