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LinkScout v1.1.0

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@github-actions github-actions released this 21 Oct 21:42
· 14 commits to main since this release

Added

  • SEO checks in a new SEO tab: 48 checks grouped into errors, warnings
    and notices. A click on a check opens the results list with the affected
    URLs; the result details show the SEO data of a page.
    • Indexability: noindex (meta robots and X-Robots-Tag), missing,
      multiple, foreign or broken canonicals, URLs blocked by robots.txt
    • Titles and meta descriptions: missing, multiple, duplicate, too long or
      too short; H1 missing, multiple or duplicate, skipped heading levels
    • Redirect chains and loops, internal links to redirects, broken
      #fragment anchors, mixed content (http resources on https pages)
    • Images without alt text, images larger than 300 KiB
    • Pages more than 3 clicks deep, pages linked only once
    • hreflang: invalid codes, broken targets, missing return links, conflicts
      with canonicals
    • Invalid JSON-LD, missing viewport, missing lang, missing OpenGraph /
      Twitter preview, exact duplicate content
    • Missing security headers and certificates that expire within 30 days
    • Long URLs, uppercase letters, underscores and parameters in URLs
  • sitemap.xml: after the link crawl the URLs of the sitemap(s) (from
    robots.txt or /sitemap.xml, including sitemap indexes and .gz) are
    checked too. Pages that are only listed there show up as not linked
    (orphan pages). Option in the advanced settings, -no-sitemap on the
    command line
  • robots.txt is read and blocked URLs are marked (they are still checked –
    LinkScout is the site owner's tool)
  • Compare the results with an earlier JSON report: new and removed URLs,
    changed status codes, new and fixed SEO issues. In the UI (Compare …) and
    with -compare old.json on the command line
  • Export as CSV and HTML in addition to JSON. On the command line the
    format follows the file extension of -report
  • Results list: column and filter for SEO issues; the click depth filter and
    chart know not linked URLs

Changed

  • The first tab is now called Check website (Website prüfen), because it
    checks more than links
  • Redirect loops are reported as such instead of "too many redirects"