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Redirects, Detector, Performance and link tools

Chapter 14 of 25

Popup tabs that look beyond the page text: redirects, what the site is built with, loading speed, internal link ideas and a map of internal links.

Redirects

"This page" says whether the page you opened arrived through a redirect or a meta refresh.

"Domain versions" follows the http, https, www and non-www versions of the domain and shows every hop with its status code. All versions should end on one address, in as few hops as possible. A 301 is permanent, a 302 is temporary.

"Check any address" follows any address you paste, such as an old domain or a short link, up to 10 hops. These checks run on the SBMM server. Export CSV saves the results.

Every version of the domain and where it ends up.

Detector

Detector shows what a site is built with: the CMS, site builder, online store, page builder, frameworks, analytics, tag managers, advertising, live chat, payments, fonts, CDN, hosting and more, grouped by type. A version number appears when the page shows one.

The line on top says which name the top bar shows in its CMS cell. "likely" next to a name means only a weak sign was found.

If nothing is found, the site may be custom built, or the page may have just opened. Reload it and run the audit again.

Detector on a news site.

Performance

These speed numbers come from your own visit to the page, so they change with your connection and computer. LCP, FCP, TTFB and CLS are the common speed and stability measures. DCL and Load show when the page finished loading. Green is good and red is slow.

Below them you see the protocol, redirects and page size, then requests by type, the largest and slowest files, and images served larger than needed.

Reload the page before you open this tab for fresh numbers. The PageSpeed Insights and WebPageTest buttons open those free tests for this page, for a lab result to compare.

Speed numbers from your own page load.

Tools tab

Page tools holds the same tools as the top bar: Colour Picker, Snipping Area, Full Page SS, KWs Ideas, Bulk URLs and Clean Text. They work even when the top bar is off. The popup closes for the tools you use on the page itself.

On this page has shortcuts: highlight nofollow links, HTML vs DOM, the full audit report, copy the URL, and open robots.txt or the sitemap.

The Tools tab works with the top bar on or off.