seo-check

SEO Check

Grade the on-page SEO of any URL. No signup required.

Prerequisites

• Playwright MCP (bundled with Claude Code)

Trigger

• "SEO check https://example.com"
• "Check my meta tags"
• "Is this page indexable?"
• "Audit my Open Graph and structured data"

Workflow

1. Navigate with mcp__playwright__browser_navigate (rendering matters: this captures the DOM after JS, which is what Google indexes after the render phase).
2. Extract everything in one mcp__playwright__browser_evaluate:

() => {
  const meta = n => document.querySelector(`meta[name="${n}"], meta[property="${n}"]`)?.content ?? null;
  const hs = [...document.querySelectorAll('h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6')].map(h => +h.tagName[1]);
  let skips = 0; hs.reduce((p, c) => { if (c > p + 1) skips++; return c; }, hs[0] ?? 0);
  return {
    title: document.title, titleLen: document.title.length,
    description: meta('description'), descLen: (meta('description') ?? '').length,
    canonical: document.querySelector('link[rel="canonical"]')?.href ?? null,
    robots: meta('robots'), lang: document.documentElement.lang || null,
    og: { title: meta('og:title'), description: meta('og:description'), image: meta('og:image') },
    twitterCard: meta('twitter:card'),
    ldJson: [...document.querySelectorAll('script[type="application/ld+json"]')].map(s => {
      try { const d = JSON.parse(s.textContent); return (Array.isArray(d) ? d : [d]).map(x => x['@type'] ?? 'missing @type'); }
      catch { return 'INVALID JSON'; }
    }),
    h1s: [...document.querySelectorAll('h1')].map(h => h.textContent.trim().slice(0, 80)),
    headingSkips: skips,
    imgs: { total: document.images.length,
            missingAlt: [...document.images].filter(i => !i.hasAttribute('alt')).length },
    hreflang: [...document.querySelectorAll('link[rel="alternate"][hreflang]')].map(l => ({ lang: l.hreflang, href: l.href })),
  };
}

1. Evaluate each check (standards inline):
   • Title — present, 30–60 chars. Google truncates title links at ~600px, ≈60 chars.
   • Meta description — present, 50–160 chars; Google rewrites weak ones.
   • Canonical — present, absolute URL, points where you expect (usually self-referencing).
   • Robots meta — flag noindex/nofollow loudly; intentional on staging, fatal in prod.
   • Open Graph — og:title, og:description, og:image all set (Open Graph protocol, ogp.me).
   • Twitter card — twitter:card present (summary / summary_large_image).
   • Structured data — JSON-LD parses; every block has an @type from schema.org.
   • Headings — exactly one h1; no skipped levels (h2→h4), which also hurts WCAG 2.2 SC 1.3.1.
   • Images — every <img> has an alt attribute (WCAG 2.2 SC 1.1.1; empty alt="" is valid for decorative images).
   • hreflang — codes are valid BCP 47 tags (RFC 5646, e.g. en-GB not en_UK); hrefs absolute; x-default present when alternates exist.
   • Lang — <html lang> set (WCAG 2.2 SC 3.1.1).
2. Score from 100: missing title −25, title length off −5, missing description −15, length off −5, noindex present −25, no canonical −5, h1 count ≠ 1 −10, heading skips −5, missing alts −1 each (max −10), OG incomplete −10, no Twitter card −5, invalid JSON-LD −10, no structured data −5, hreflang errors −5. A ≥90 · B 80–89 · C 70–79 · D 60–69 · F <60.
3. Honest limits: this is one page, not the site; hreflang reciprocity (return links on the alternate pages) and canonical target status need fetching other URLs — note, don't guess.

Report

## SEO Check: {URL}

**Grade: {A–F} ({score}/100)**

### Issues
- Title is 74 chars — truncates in results; trim to ≤60
- Meta description missing — Google will synthesize one
- 4 of 12 images missing alt attributes (WCAG 2.2 SC 1.1.1)
- hreflang "en_UK" is not a valid BCP 47 tag — use "en-GB"

### Passed
- h1: "Acme — Ship faster" (exactly one)
- Canonical: https://example.com/ (self-referencing)
- Open Graph: title, description, image set
- JSON-LD: Organization, WebSite (valid)
- robots: not restricted; lang: en

### Not verified from this page
- hreflang return links on alternate-language pages
- Sitemap/robots.txt coverage (different fetch)

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