defend

Check whether a page can be read, indexed and quoted by a machine. 15 rules, every one citing the specification it comes from, so you can disagree with any of them.

We check pages people ask us to check. Nothing is crawled, nothing is listed, and a report is not indexed unless its owner asks for it.

What it looks at

AreaFrom
Open Graph metadataThe Open Graph protocol
Document title and languageHTML Standard
Alt text, heading order, link purposeWCAG 2.2, Level A
Structured dataJSON-LD 1.1 and schema.org
Canonical link and robots directivesRFC 6596, RFC 9309
Whether an answer is extractable at allOur own notes, marked as such

Findings drawn from our own notes are labelled and never counted against a page we do not own.

When a rule changes

Rules get added, and one gets removed when it turns out to cite a specification that does not say what it was read as saying. That list goes out when it happens, and at no other time.

Double opt in. The confirmation link is the only thing that adds you, every message carries a one-click removal link, and the address is never passed on. Stored: the address, the time you asked, and the time you confirmed.

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