SEO Pulse SEO Extension

SEO Pulse is a powerful, one-click SEO audit extension for Chrome. Click the icon on any page and get 125+ instant checks across indexability, structured data, server health, JavaScript rendering, redirects, hreflang, Core Web Vitals, and more — no account needed, no data sent to servers, everything runs locally in your browser. Updated May 2026 — Now with page type detection, AI bot access controls, scripts & tracking detection, live Google Search Status, and a prioritised issues list with plain-English fix suggestions and direct links to the relevant audit panel. The extension icon changes color the moment you land on a page: 🟡 Yellow = Actively running checks 🟢 Green = All good 🟠 Orange = Worth checking 🔴 Red = Critical issue (noindex / robots.txt block) 🏆 WHY SEO PULSE IS DIFFERENT Most Chrome SEO extensions read what the browser already loaded and call it a day. SEO Pulse goes further — and does things no other free extension does. → It fetches your raw HTML independently and compares it against what JavaScript rendered — so you know exactly what search engines crawl, not just what users see. Every title, description, canonical, H1, schema block, and hreflang tag gets labelled SSR or JS inline, with no extra clicks. → It probes your server with live HTTP requests to check 404 handling, www redirect consistency, trailing slash behaviour, HTTPS enforcement, and URL case sensitivity. These are the technical issues that silently tank rankings for months before anyone notices. → It automatically detects the page type — Product, Category, Blog Post, Homepage, Transactional — and surfaces issues that are only relevant to that type. A Shopify category page gets different checks than a blog post. A checkout page being indexable gets flagged as critical, not just a warning. → It shows you which AI crawlers and search bots can access your content — with a visual grid of 20 bots, what each one does, and what blocking it actually means for your site. → Everything runs locally in your browser. No sending URLs to a third-party server. No API keys. No subscriptions. No waiting for a dashboard to load. You land on a page, the icon pulses, and within seconds you have a complete picture. Other SEO extensions were built to check a few tags. SEO Pulse was built to answer the question search engines actually ask: "Can I crawl this, understand it, and rank it?" 🚨 ISSUES TAB — 75+ PRIORITISED CHECKS IN ONE PLACE Every problem found across all 125+ checks surfaces here, ranked by severity — Critical, Warning, and Info. No more tab-hopping to find what's wrong. Each issue includes a plain-English description of why it matters, a concrete fix suggestion, and a direct link to the relevant tab for deeper investigation. A live badge on the Issues tab updates in real time as server probes complete — so your total count is always accurate even before all checks finish. Issues are grouped by category (Indexability, Canonical, Title, Images, Links, Schema, Hreflang, Server, Sitemap, Security, and more) and filterable by severity or category. New: issues are grouped by detected page type. A product page gets product-specific checks. A blog post gets content and schema checks specific to articles. A low-confidence detection shows you exactly what signals were used so you can verify before acting. Export the full issues list as a standalone HTML report — sorted by severity, with all fix suggestions included — ready to share with clients or drop into a ticket. 🔍 INDEXABILITY & CANONICALS Noindex detection via both meta robots tag and X-Robots-Tag response header — with icon colour feedback before you even open the popup. Canonical URL analysis covering self-referencing, missing, pointing to a different URL, multiple canonicals on one page, and canonicals declared outside the head. Multiple title tag detection with a breakdown of how many appear in the head vs body. X-Robots-Tag fetched via GET request, not HEAD — catches headers that WordPress and CDN configurations return inconsistently. 🧠 SSR vs JS DETECTION — KNOW WHAT SEARCH ENGINES ACTUALLY SEE This is one of SEO Pulse's most powerful and genuinely unique features. When JavaScript injects your title, description, canonical tag, schema, or hreflang after page load, search engines may never see it — they don't always execute JavaScript on every crawl pass. SEO Pulse fetches the raw HTML independently and checks every critical signal against both the rendered DOM and the server response. Every title tag, meta description, canonical, H1, schema block, and hreflang tag gets an SSR or JS badge — shown inline next to the field name, no extra clicks required. Hover any badge for a plain-English explanation of what it means for indexing. Nine encoding strategies handle edge cases: URL-encoded characters, HTML entities, plus-encoded spaces, and mixed encoding patterns used by frameworks like Next.js and Nuxt. No other free Chrome SEO extension does this. 🤖 ROBOTS.TXT & AI BOT ACCESS Full robots.txt parser with live syntax highlighting, rule-by-rule breakdown, and an interactive URL tester — enter any path and see exactly which rules apply and why. X-Robots-Tag header detection included. New in 2026: a visual access grid shows the robots.txt status for 20 major crawlers at a glance. Each bot shows ✓ allowed or ✗ blocked for the current page URL, with a tooltip explaining what the bot does and what blocking it means for your site: Search crawlers: Googlebot, Bingbot, DuckDuckBot, Applebot, YandexBot AI training bots: GPTBot (OpenAI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), CCBot (Common Crawl), Bytespider (ByteDance), Amazonbot AI search bots: OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT Search), Claude-SearchBot (Anthropic), PerplexityBot Live browsing agents: ChatGPT-User, Claude-User Ad & social crawlers: AdsBot-Google, FacebookBot, meta-externalagent AI training opt-outs: Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended Blocking Google-Extended opts your content out of Gemini training without affe…