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Scrutiny uses Integrity's tried and tested engine to crawl a site and report broken links. But it does so much more for the webmaster, such as generating an XML sitemap, html validation and essential SEO checks on page title, meta keywords, meta description and headings.
What's New
Version 1.6.2:
- Traps and highlights a certain kind of recursion.
- A fix and improvements re secure (https:) links. The problem could cause hanging or crashes in certain circumstances.
- Fixes problem with thread counting which was preventing it working to its full potential
- Fixes a memory leak so can handle larger sites than previous versions.
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later.
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| Downloads:1,341 |
| Version Downloads:80 |
| Type:Internet : Internet Utilities |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:21 May 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $29.95 |
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Scrutiny uses Integrity's tried and tested engine to crawl a site and report broken links. But it does so much more for the webmaster, such as generating an XML sitemap, html validation and essential SEO checks on page title, meta keywords, meta description and headings.
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Yazarim reviewed on 23 May 2012
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http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/topic/use-html-doctype-not-xhtml
http://www.webkit.org/blog/68/understanding-html-xml-and-xhtml/
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Caberlin reviewed on 24 Mar 2012
A tip for validation: I found out that for the validation it is very important to set the software to make only a few requests per minute. Otherwise the validation gets stopped in the middle because the company that provides the validation locks out your IP for a while (because they obviously do not like automated requests of a certain frequency).
Btw: Why is their free version, named "Integrity", receiving frequent updates, and this paid version not?
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I do try to update both apps roughly monthly, and the version histories (available in full at peacockmedia) do show this. The free Integrity (just a link checker) may have had a little more attention in the last month because of a problem that required a fairly quick release.
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Detlevski reviewed on 26 Nov 2011
Despite this I consider buying it.
But there still is some work to be done.
It's now possible (since 1.3.3) to switch off validation and / or SEO checks.
By default Scrutiny uses the public instance of the w3c validator, which has its limits. It's possible to download install the validator (free) and set Scrutiny to use that. See Scrutiny's FAQs at peacockmedia.co.uk for more details about that.
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"Two tools from the same developer were next to come across my desktop. Integrity is a basic link checker, while Scrutiny adds sitemap, SEO, and HTML validation features. As I began reviewing link checkers, certain features became important to me; both of these applications allow the user to set per-site delays to the scanner, so as not to overload the server, and have the ability to pause a scan and optionally scan for missing images.
"However...Scrutiny has some odd user interface issues that make me uncomfortable using it. Also, [it suffers] from a bug that makes the scanner treat URLs with 'www.' in them as a different site than those without the subdomain. The developer has indicated that this will be fixed in a later version.
"...my faves are ______ and Scrutiny. Scrutiny, as noted above, isn't a polished app. And there are features found in other apps I'd like it to have, like robots.txt exclusion and full resource checking. However, the price is more appealing than ______'s.
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Singley reviewed on 09 Nov 2011
It's a very nice app, the design is user-friendly.
Instant download, no need to leave email/name: want to try it out - go ahead.
Scrunity checks links, SEO stuff, HTML validation, generates an XML sitemap.
300 links were found for a tiny website I checked in less than two minutes, so the tool is really fast. These were both back links and internal links. 239 of them were reported as bad, mostly these were 404 error internal links. Thank, Scrunity, I'll fix that! So Scrunity found 61 backlinks to my website - pretty much the same I used to detect with yahoo site explorer.
Btw, where does Scrunity get back links from?
Then I moved to the Sitemap option. I liked the "only include checked and followed urls in sitemaps" option. Also you can set up the default change frequency (the same option to all pages only, I guess - please correct me if I'm wrong) and priority (that was marked as automatic only, maybe because of the demo version).
In the SEO section you get info on page title, url, description, keywords, main headings. All is accurate.
HTML validation states valid/invalid/abort, or, abundant in my case, "the request timed out".
Thanks for the great tool, I think webmasters who don't need advanced options, a variety of xml sitemap generation option to choose from, can make great use of it to spot main on page problems and remove obstacles to high rankings! I personally was amazed by the number of 404's found :)
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The priority for the sitemap is auto-generated. Note that you can manually alter the allocated change frequency by editing within the table, the same isn't true for the priority. I can see that that would be useful, so I'll add it to the enhancement list.
(No features are hidden in the demo mode)
You may find some useful tips and more information on the app's FAQ page, available via the Help menu.
I'd like to look into your back links question, please could you contact me (email address is on my site). You can double-click each link to see which page(s) it appears on and this should answer your question but it will only find links on your site, not links to your site from other people's (at least not yet!!)
Thanks again. S
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Cheers, Anne
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