Scrutiny 4.2.2
Device: Mac OS
Category: Developer Tools
Price: $49.99, Version: 4.1.3 -> 4.2.2 (iTunes)
Description:- Improve your website's quality, SEO and user experience- Checks internal and external links as well as images- Fast scan with many options, progress displayed via dock icon- Highlights problems in colour, double-click for further information- Many export options including full report, xml sitemap, graphic visualisation- Checks your html using the w3c html validator; the public instance or your own installation- SEO analysis of a page such as occurrences of keywords or missing page title, meta description, headings and keywords. Also highlighting of possible duplicates (same page, different url)- Manages as many sites as you like with different settings for each- Retina screens supportedFeed Scrutiny your homepage URL and watch it follow internal links to find all of your pages and carry out these checks from the same viewpoint as a search engine robot.Scrutiny stores a lot of data and can only use the memory available to it. There have been big performance improvements with v4 but if your site is big enough (many thousand pages) Scrutiny may not be able to crawl it in one go. For tips on crawling it in sections, please see Scrutiny's FAQ page.
What's New
improvements to interface for productivity:- Changes the 'by link' view to an expandable view, occurrences can be seen by expanding view rather than as previously having to open the link inspector - Link inspector still appears on double-click from link views and is improved- Adds context menus to the 'by link' and 'by page' views and the 'appears on' table in the link inspector - a number of actions can be performed with a right-click (or control-click) including 'Copy URL' and where appropriate Visit, Highlight and Locate- The new Copy URL action is available with a command-C and will copy the URL of the selected item- A new Locate action lists how to click through from the starting url to find the link in question. It is available via context menus, the link inspector and cmd-shift-L- Adds 'link text' column to 'by page' view- Change to wording: 'on page' now 'appears on'- Changes default for highlighting a link on the page - now looks like highlighter pen rather than a box around it (changes prefs defaults to 'background' rather than 'border', and changes the default colour to yellow rather than dark grey - ie (existing users can select this option in prefs if they like))Also:- Ignores and continues if 'bad SSL certificate' warning is encountered. But only for the website being tested. (anything else, ie external links, won't be followed anyway)- If image checking is switched on, now collects alt text and displays in 'link text' columns- Some options removed from Preferences>Views>By Link view (Status, URL, On Page) because these are needed for the new outline view to work properly- Exporting from 'by link' view better than previously. (was putting all 'on page' information in a single cell to reflect the view - led to problems due to Excel's 256-character limit)- Export added to by Page view- Exports from expandable views reflect the state of the view, ie which rows are expanded or not
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