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Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – Crawls your site for SEO, speed and security issues

3 points by seanwilson 9y ago

seanwilson 9y ago
Hi! I'm the developer behind this. Checkbot can spider your site for broken links, duplicate content issues, unminified resources, redirect chains, mixed content errors, insecure password forms and more. There's a guide on the website (https://www.checkbot.io https://www.checkbot.io) that explains the 50+ best practices Checkbot tests for. I'm hoping web developers find the extension useful for checking and optimising their sites. By the way, if you'd rather not grant the permissions needed, you can always open a new Chrome window and sign in to Chrome with a temporary account with the button in the top right before you install. This keeps everything separate from your main account. I'm looking for any feedback you might have about the Chrome extension itself and the website. Did you find it useful? How often would you use it? Can you think of any improvements you'd like to see? Thanks!
chatmasta 9y ago
Good service, but why implement it as a chrome extension? Seems like anyone who needs it would only need it on their own sites, not every site online.
- seanwilson 9y ago
  If you mean compared to an online service, they usually have to restrict how many sites you crawl, how often you can crawl and will have trouble with local and private sites. Google Webmaster Tools can take days to give you updates on issues for example and you have to push your changes live to get feedback. So as a Chrome extension, you can crawl your local development sites, staging sites, sites on private networks and you can immediately recrawl pages again whenever you want to confirm you've fixed issues. Many developers need to work on multiple sites as well.
  - chatmasta 9y ago
    Oh, got it. I thought your chrome extension was doing the actual crawling serverside. This makes sense then. I haven’t tried it out, but if it works on localhost, that’s awesome.
    - seanwilson 9y ago
      Yes, the crawling happens from your own machine. I'll need to make this more obvious somehow.

3 points by seanwilson 9y ago

Hi! I'm the developer behind this. Checkbot can spider your site for broken links, duplicate content issues, unminified resources, redirect chains, mixed content errors, insecure password forms and more. There's a guide on the website (https://www.checkbot.io https://www.checkbot.io) that explains the 50+ best practices Checkbot tests for. I'm hoping web developers find the extension useful for checking and optimising their sites. By the way, if you'd rather not grant the permissions needed, you can always open a new Chrome window and sign in to Chrome with a temporary account with the button in the top right before you install. This keeps everything separate from your main account. I'm looking for any feedback you might have about the Chrome extension itself and the website. Did you find it useful? How often would you use it? Can you think of any improvements you'd like to see? Thanks!

chatmasta 9y ago

Good service, but why implement it as a chrome extension? Seems like anyone who needs it would only need it on their own sites, not every site online.

seanwilson 9y ago
If you mean compared to an online service, they usually have to restrict how many sites you crawl, how often you can crawl and will have trouble with local and private sites. Google Webmaster Tools can take days to give you updates on issues for example and you have to push your changes live to get feedback. So as a Chrome extension, you can crawl your local development sites, staging sites, sites on private networks and you can immediately recrawl pages again whenever you want to confirm you've fixed issues. Many developers need to work on multiple sites as well.
- chatmasta 9y ago
  Oh, got it. I thought your chrome extension was doing the actual crawling serverside. This makes sense then. I haven’t tried it out, but if it works on localhost, that’s awesome.
  - seanwilson 9y ago
    Yes, the crawling happens from your own machine. I'll need to make this more obvious somehow.