Scrutiny 8.1.8 – Suite of Web optimization tools.

August 7, 2018

Scrutiny is a suite of web optimization tools. Native cocoa app (i.e., not Java) fast and efficient. 30-days free trial. This is a major update from v5. This is a completely free upgrade for v5 users and there is an upgrade path from v4.

Features

Link checker
SEO analysis
XML Sitemap generation, optionally include images / pdf pages
Page load speed test
Spelling and grammar checking
Scans sites requiring authentication
Search your site (source or visible text) obtain a list of pages containing a search term or not containing a search term
Website monitoring of as many URL’s as you like with a choice of alerts and logging
Scheduling made easy with a few easy clicks (the old method using iCal will still work)
On finish, 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, CSV, plain text format, or XML sitemap

What’s New

Version 8.1.8

Enables dark mode when using MacOs 10.14 Mojave (will respect the user's choice of dark or light mode in System Preferences)
Different handling of a common issue: linkedIn urls returning a 999 code (even though the link may work in a browser). This is not a Scrutiny issue but common to all webcrawlers / testers. LI seems to detect the rapid requests and/or non-browser querystring and returns a non-standard 999 code. Scrutiny used to present this as a server error and count it as a bad link. Now it labels it as a warning, and does not count it as a bad link. This is because it is not necessarily a bad link, it just hasn't been possible to test it properly.
Fixes issue with meta http-refresh not being observed if the page contains content with links. (The content was being parsed for links, in favour of the redirection being observed.)
Fixes bug causing no data to show when Filter button on SEO table is set to 'Duplicate descriptions'
Better handling of a recurring 'Refresh' response header field which could have appeared to leave the scan hanging when almost 100% finished
Fixes a possible crash after exporting links to csv
Some fixes to keyword density (reporting keyword stuffed pages) functionality
Some improvements to the sorting and filtering which should prevent a short hang when using the 'bad links only' checkbox in the links results. There may still be a bit of a delay with some large sites and when the 'by status' tab is selected.
Other small fixes