OnPage SEO tool for your website

Inpect and improve your web pages for OnPage SEO with offline support.

OnSite SEO crawls a site and evaluates OnPage SEO criterias on all pages to improve Search Engine Optimization values like meta information, header order, links or texts.

Visit the demo page.

Usage

First crawl your page via phantomjs and view your results with the build in webserver:

$ phantomjs seo.js <your page url> -n
$ grunt server

Open your browser at http://localhost:3000. Get more help with $ phantomjs seo.js

Offline Report

$ phantomjs seo.js <your page url>

Now view the generated report of report.html.

Options

-m, --max-pages n: Set the number of maximum pages. Crawl all when set to 0. Default is 0.

-d, --max-depth n: Maximum crawl depth. Default is 3.

-r, --report name: Offline report filename. Default is report.html.

-n, --data-only: Crawl only data to seo-data.json.

Installation

Clone this project from github. Than

$ npm install -g grunt-cli bower phantomjs
$ npm install
$ bower install

Extend

The process has two steps. First lib/crawler.js crawls the webpage, inject jQuery to the current page and extracts some key properties via lib/inspector.js.

Than for offline report evaluates the result in lib/report.js by calling rating functions of lib/ratings.js.

Or for the online SPA report the result is stored in seo-data.json and parsed in the angular app.

Have a look to the ratings functions in lib/ratings-*.js. These functions rate page properties and return a score. If you need to extract more data from your page, please have a look to lib/inspector.js.

Keep in mind that the offline reporting and online version share some code: lib/ratings*.js and lib/urlUtils.js. The ratings and urlUtils are node modules which are used in the SPA via browserify. The Gruntfile.js bundles lib/ratings*.js and lib/urlUtils.js to app/js/bundle.js and copies seo-data.json.

Ratings

A rating object has at least a title and a rateFn rating function. description, weight, and group are optional, but are set within ratings.addRating(). weight is the score weight of the rating function, which default is 1. The rating function is called with the page and the site:

var result = rating.rateFn(page, site)

The result of rateFn is a score number or an object with at least score and a list of suggestions. The value is optional. The result is proxied in ratings.proxyRateFn() and the score is limited between 0 and 1 automatically.

Motivation

At the company's page update rewoo.de we did not found a simple and free offline tool, to evaluate all your pages with some static SEO rules. There are plenty online offers which evaluates only one single page. To check all your pages it is a pain. Questions where unanswered like

• Has every page only one H1 header?
• Does the text contains all given keywords?
• Are all links valid?
• Have all images an alt attribute?

This tool can answer these questions for all your pages on your site offline. And it is free!

Limitations

This tool was written within a few days to check some static SEO values. It does not include all known rules (if anyone knows them anyway) and does not include off site evaluation like backlinks, social media, trust, authority, page rank, etc.

License

MIT, see LICENSE file.

FAQ

How does it work

First, your page is crawled and each page is inspected with some major properties like meta information, headers, links, resources, etc. In a second step these collected data are scored through different rating functions and summarized.

All that stuff is done with javascript, phantomjs, node, and angularjs.

Why javascript?

The major language of the web is javascript. Deal with it. And node is an awesome project.

Why phantomjs?

phantomjs is a great headless browser where you can check operate directly on the page with javascript. Like evaluating only visible elements. OK. Yes. I know. This is not used yet. But you can!

Why are there two steps of crawling and displaying the results?

Phantomjs is not nodejs. There share some functionality but they are not the same. So we need these two steps.

The single weight of my page are arbitrary

Yes. They are. The should only give you some hint for your page. Most weights are from 0.2 to 5. If you know better values, please file a github pull request.

This tool does not show my backlinks or page rank

Please see limitations.

My rule is not implemented

Please implement it and send a github pull request.