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Shiela Dixon
Scrutiny 5 is a suite of web optimization tools including link checking, SEO checks, Sitemap generation, page load speed test, html validation. Version 5 is a major update and includes these new features. This beta version is free but will expire in a month. In return I'd love feedback.
- Cleaner 'task based' interface
- Website monitoring of as many urls as you like with alerts on screen or by email, plus written to a log file
- Able to scan pdf documents for links
- Scheduling made easy with a few easy clicks (the old method using iCal will
What's New
Version 5.0.1:
- Auto-detects character encoding of pages, character encodings now supported include CP1251 (Cyrillic script eg Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic)
- Adds headings and schedule column to sites table v5.0 (beta)
- Cleaner 'task based' interface
- Website monitoring of as many urls as you like with alerts on screen or by email, plus written to a log file
- Able to scan pdf documents for links
- Able to execute javascript before scanning the page
- Scheduling made easy with a few easy clicks (the old method using iCal will still work)
- On finish of a scheduled or manual scan, Scrutiny 5 can send an email, save a report, open a file or applescript, ftp the sitemap xml and other actions
- Opens and scans a list of links in html, plain text format or xml sitemap (automatically detected)
- Improved page analysis - finds more elements making up a page
- Scan a site for pages containing specific text.
Version 5.0.1:
- Auto-detects character encoding of pages, character encodings now supported include CP1251 (Cyrillic script eg Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian Cyrillic)
- Adds headings and schedule column to sites table v5.0 (beta)
- Cleaner 'task based' interface
- Website monitoring of as many urls as you like with alerts on screen or by email, plus written to a log file more...
Requirements
Intel, OS X 10.6 or later
Intel, OS X 10.6 or later
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| Date:13 Apr 2014 |
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Scrutiny 5 is a suite of web optimization tools including link checking, SEO checks, Sitemap generation, page load speed test, html validation. Version 5 is a major update and includes these new features. This beta version is free but will expire in a month. In return I'd love feedback.
Note: This will be a major update from the separately-available Scrutiny 4.
- Cleaner 'task based' interface
- Website monitoring of as many urls as you like with alerts on screen or by email, plus written to a log file
- Able to scan pdf documents for links
- Scheduling made easy with a few easy clicks (the old method using iCal will still work)
- On finish of a scheduled or manual scan, Scrutiny 5 can send an email, save a report, open a file or applescript, ftp the sitemap xml and other actions
- Opens and scans a list of links in html, plain text format or xml sitemap (automatically detected)
- Improved page analysis - finds more elements making up a page
- Scan a site for pages containing specific text
Note: This will be a major update from the separately-available Scrutiny 4.
Veltin reviewed on 26 Oct 2013
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It has been about a dozen years since the search engines have last used meta keywords in the evaluation of search query for a website! Anyone that does real SEO knows that! http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html
I’m giving them a one star for not being honest.
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I will consider making the column optional and off by default but a one star review for one column of many in the SEO table which is one tool of many in this app?
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Peleve reviewed on 31 Jan 2013
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Let me know if you actually meant something different.
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Also, if you maintain a few sites, you can check multiple sites with a single crawl.
See the manual (under the Help menu) for more details of these.
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Yazarim reviewed on 23 May 2012
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Thank you for the Italian tip. I don't speak it but as a musician I know many words and it's beautiful, bella.
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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.
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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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I tested Srutiny and the program has found 8 Bad-Links, 7 but were ok. Most of them were links to PDF files.
Why?
Stefan
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bigglz rated on 29 Sep 2013
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Caberlin rated on 23 May 2013
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Giorgio_swiss rated on 29 Jan 2013
Sapid rated on 11 Dec 2012
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Caberlin rated on 11 Aug 2012