30 checks covering the technical infrastructure Google uses to decide whether a page is indexable, crawlable, and fast enough to rank. Crawler directives, structured data, Core Web Vitals, and HTTP-response hygiene. What ships out of the server, before any editorial layer.
Grounded in Google Search Central documentation, RFC 9309 (Robots Exclusion Protocol), the Sitemaps.org protocol, and schema.org.
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What's checked
- Crawlability — robots.txt, sitemap.xml, canonical URLs, noindex correctness
- Structured data — schema.org JSON-LD, Open Graph, Twitter cards
- Performance — LCP, CLS, INP, TTFB, compression, render-blocking resources
- HTTP hygiene — soft-404 detection, redirect chains, mobile-friendly, viewport
- Meta tags — title length, meta description, HTTPS-for-indexing
Part of the Site Integrity Index
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