Pixellize

<p>Pixellize Site Issue Scanner is a comprehensive toolkit designed to improve your website’s health and search engine performance. By performing deep site audits, it identifies critical issues that impact user experience and search rankings.</p>
<h4>✨ Core Capabilities</h4>
<h3>🔍 Precision SEO Audit</h3>
<p>Audit your site’s structural SEO with deep inspection of every page:</p>
<ul>
<li>Meta Tag Integrity: Detects missing, short, or excessively long Meta Titles and Descriptions.</li>
<li>Heading Hierarchy: Flags missing H1 tags, multiple H1 tags, and skipped heading levels.</li>
<li>Indexation Monitoring: Identifies pages hidden from search engines via noindex tags.</li>
<li>Sitemap Verification: Robust multi-method check for sitemap.xml, sitemap_index.xml, and robots.txt entries.</li>
<li>Canonical Tag Audit: Detects pages missing a canonical link tag, pages with multiple conflicting canonical tags, and canonicals pointing to a different page or cross-domain URL. One-click Edit Canonical popup writes to Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, and SEO Framework.</li>
<li>Open Graph + Twitter Card Audit: Flags missing og:title, og:image, twitter:card, twitter:image. Detects og:image dimensions below the recommended 1200×630 (uses declared meta tags or fetches the image once and caches the result).</li>
</ul>
<h3>🔗 Link & Asset Guardian</h3>
<p>Maintain a seamless browsing experience by staying ahead of broken assets:</p>
<ul>
<li>Internal & External Links: Validates every link on your site, identifying 404 errors and unreachable URLs.</li>
<li>Redirect Mapping: Flags 301/302 redirects to help you minimize “hops” and save crawl budget.</li>
<li>Critical Asset Health: Monitors JavaScript, CSS, and Iframes for availability and load errors.</li>
<li>External Link Best Practices: Identifies external links missing target=”_blank” or security attributes.</li>
</ul>
<h3>🖼️ Image Optimization</h3>
<p>Ensure your visual content is fast and accessible:</p>
<ul>
<li>Broken Image Detection: Finds images that fail to load from your server or external CDNs.</li>
<li>Accessibility Check: Flags missing alt attributes critical for screen readers and SEO.</li>
<li>Missing Dimensions: Detects images without width/height attributes to prevent Layout Shifts (CLS).</li>
<li>Oversized Assets: Highlights images exceeding 250KB that slow down page loads.</li>
</ul>
<h3>🚀 Pro Actionable Fixes</h3>
<p>Pixellize Site Issue Scanner doesn’t just find problems; it helps you fix them in seconds:</p>
<ul>
<li>Integrated Meta Editor: Edit Meta Titles and Descriptions across your site with real-time character counting. Syncs automatically with Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, and more.</li>
<li>Bulk Find & Replace: Safely replace broken URLs across post content, meta fields, and serialized option data.</li>
<li>One-Click “target=’_blank'”: Automatically update external links to open in a new tab.</li>
<li>Auto-Dimension Fixer: Intelligent tool that fetches image files, determines their true size, and injects missing width/height attributes into your HTML.</li>
<li>Noindex Removal: Quickly toggle off the noindex tag for pages that should be visible to search engines.</li>
</ul>
<h3>📊 Intelligent Dashboard</h3>
<ul>
<li>Site Health Score: A bird’s-eye view of your website’s overall health and SEO readiness.</li>
<li>Real-Time Crawling: Watch the crawler navigate your site asynchronously, with the ability to pause and resume.</li>
<li>Resume After Crash: Crawl progress is persisted in the database, so a closed tab or page reload won’t lose your scan. A resume banner appears on return with a single click to continue.</li>
<li>Diff Between Scans: Each report shows how many issues are new and how many were fixed since the previous scan, so you can track progress at a glance.</li>
<li>Issue Breakdown: Categorized reports with specific “How to Fix” guidance for every error or warning.</li>
<li>Crawl History: Save and manage multiple scan batches to compare site health over time.</li>
<li>CSV Export: Take your data anywhere with professional CSV reports of all identified issues.</li>
</ul>
<h3>⚙️ Advanced Configuration</h3>
<p>Fine-tune the engine to match your server’s capabilities:<br />
– Selective Scanning: Filter by Post Type and Post Status to focus your audits.<br />
– Max Pages to Crawl: Cap the number of pages per scan to control server load.</p>


Pixellize Site Issue Scanner

Powerful SEO auditor by Pixellize. Crawls your site to fix broken links, missing meta tags, and unoptimized images.

Freemius

Sajjad Ali

Pagup

<p>Better Robots.txt replaces the default WordPress robots.txt workflow with a smarter, structured version you can configure and preview before publishing.</p>
<p>Instead of a blank textarea, you get a guided wizard with presets, plain-language explanations, and a final Review & Save step so you can inspect the generated robots.txt before it goes live.</p>
<p>Built for beginners and advanced users alike, Better Robots.txt helps you control how search engines, AI crawlers, SEO tools, archive bots, bad bots, social preview bots, and other automated agents interact with your site.</p>
<p>Trusted by thousands of WordPress sites, Better Robots.txt is designed for the AI era without resorting to hype, vague promises, or hidden rules.</p>
<p>Better Robots.txt is available in Free, Pro, and Premium editions. The free plugin covers the guided workflow and essential crawl control features, while Pro and Premium unlock additional governance, protection, and AI-ready modules. Some screenshots on the plugin page show features from all three editions.</p>
<h3>A quick overview</h3>
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<h3>Why Better Robots.txt is different</h3>
<p>Most robots.txt plugins fall into one of three categories:</p>
<ul>
<li>Simple text editor</li>
<li>Virtual robots.txt manager</li>
<li>Single-purpose AI or policy add-on</li>
</ul>
<p>Better Robots.txt goes further.</p>
<p>It gives you a complete, guided crawl control workflow so you can:</p>
<ul>
<li>Choose a preset that matches your goals</li>
<li>Control major crawler categories without writing everything by hand</li>
<li>Keep core WordPress protection rules visible and editable</li>
<li>Clean up low-value crawl paths that waste crawl budget</li>
<li>Generate a cleaner robots.txt output</li>
<li>Preview the final result before saving</li>
</ul>
<h3>What you can control</h3>
<p>Better Robots.txt helps you manage:</p>
<ul>
<li>Search engine visibility</li>
<li>AI and LLM crawler behavior</li>
<li>AI usage signals such as search, ai-input, and ai-train preferences</li>
<li>SEO tool crawlers</li>
<li>Bad bots and abusive crawlers</li>
<li>Archive and Wayback access</li>
<li>Feed crawlers and crawl traps</li>
<li>WooCommerce crawl cleanup</li>
<li>CSS, JavaScript, and image crawling rules</li>
<li>Social media preview crawlers</li>
<li>ads.txt and app-ads.txt allowance</li>
<li>llms.txt generation</li>
<li>Advanced directives such as crawl-delay and custom rules</li>
<li>Final review before publishing</li>
</ul>
<h3>Editions</h3>
<p>Better Robots.txt is available in three editions:</p>
<ul>
<li>Free – Includes the guided setup, the Essential preset, core crawl control features, and the final Review & Save workflow.</li>
<li>Pro – Adds more advanced governance and protection modules, including additional AI, crawler, and cleanup controls.</li>
<li>Premium – Unlocks the most restrictive and advanced protection options, including the Fortress preset and additional high-control modules.</li>
</ul>
<p>Some options shown in the interface are marked Free, Pro, or Premium so users can immediately understand which modules belong to each edition.</p>
<h3>Presets</h3>
<p>Setup starts with four modes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essential – A clean, practical configuration for most websites that want a better robots.txt without complexity.</li>
<li>AI-First – For publishers and content sites that want AI-ready governance without shutting down discovery.</li>
<li>Fortress – For websites that want stronger protection against scraping, archive capture, and unnecessary crawl activity.</li>
<li>Custom – For users who prefer to configure each module manually.</li>
</ul>
<p>For many sites, one preset plus a quick review is enough.</p>
<h3>Built for beginners and experts</h3>
<p>Beginners get:</p>
<ul>
<li>A guided setup instead of a raw robots.txt box</li>
<li>Preset-based configuration</li>
<li>Plain-language explanations for important choices</li>
<li>A safer workflow with a final preview step</li>
</ul>
<p>Advanced users get:</p>
<ul>
<li>Editable core WordPress protection rules</li>
<li>Fine-grained crawler controls by category</li>
<li>WooCommerce-oriented cleanup options</li>
<li>Consolidated output options</li>
<li>Advanced directives and custom rules</li>
<li>A final output they can inspect before publishing</li>
</ul>
<h3>AI-ready, without hype</h3>
<p>Better Robots.txt includes features for modern AI-related crawl governance, including:</p>
<ul>
<li>AI crawler handling</li>
<li>Optional llms.txt support</li>
<li>AI usage signals for compliant systems</li>
<li>Optional machine-readable governance signals for advanced use cases</li>
</ul>
<p>These features help you express how you want automated systems to use your content.</p>
<p>However, Better Robots.txt does not claim to control AI by force. Like robots.txt itself, these signals are most useful with compliant systems and good-faith crawlers.</p>
<h3>What Better Robots.txt is</h3>
<p>Better Robots.txt is:</p>
<ul>
<li>A robots.txt governance plugin for WordPress</li>
<li>A guided configuration workflow instead of a raw text editor</li>
<li>A crawl control layer to reduce wasteful crawling</li>
<li>A practical bridge between SEO, crawl hygiene, and AI-era policy signaling</li>
<li>A way to keep your crawl policy clearer for humans and machines</li>
</ul>
<p>Technical reference for advanced users: Better Robots.txt also maintains a public <a href="https://github.com/GautierDorval/better-robots-txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc">GitHub repository</a> with product definition, governance notes, and machine-readable artefacts.</p>
<h3>What Better Robots.txt is not</h3>
<p>Better Robots.txt is not:</p>
<ul>
<li>A firewall or Web Application Firewall (WAF)</li>
<li>An anti-scraping enforcement engine</li>
<li>A legal compliance engine</li>
<li>A guarantee that every bot will obey your rules</li>
<li>A replacement for server-level security or access control</li>
</ul>
<p>It helps you publish a clearer crawl policy.</p>
<p>It does not replace infrastructure-level protection.</p>
<h3>Typical use cases</h3>
<p>Use Better Robots.txt if you want to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Clean up a weak or noisy default robots.txt</li>
<li>Reduce crawl waste on WordPress or WooCommerce</li>
<li>Keep major search engines allowed while restricting other bots</li>
<li>Control whether archive bots can snapshot your site</li>
<li>Publish AI usage preferences more clearly</li>
<li>Keep social preview bots allowed while limiting scrapers</li>
<li>Review the final file before making it live</li>
</ul>
<h3>Key Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Guided step-by-step wizard</li>
<li>Preset-based setup: Essential, AI-First, Fortress, Custom</li>
<li>Search engine visibility controls</li>
<li>AI and LLM crawler governance</li>
<li>AI usage signals support</li>
<li>SEO tool crawler controls</li>
<li>Bad bot and abusive crawler options</li>
<li>Archive and Wayback access controls</li>
<li>Spam, feed, and crawl trap cleanup</li>
<li>WooCommerce crawl cleanup options</li>
<li>CSS, JavaScript, and image crawling rules</li>
<li>Social media preview crawler controls</li>
<li>ads.txt and app-ads.txt allowance</li>
<li>Optional llms.txt generation</li>
<li>Consolidated output option</li>
<li>Core WordPress protection rules remain visible and editable</li>
<li>Final Review & Save preview screen</li>
</ul>
<h4>About the publisher</h4>
<p>Better Robots.txt is developed and maintained by <a href="https://pagup.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Pagup</a>, a digital readability firm based in Quebec, Canada. Pagup helps organizations become correctly understood by search engines, generative AI systems, and autonomous agents.</p>
<p>The robots.txt file is the first surface that AI crawlers read when they discover a site. A well-structured robots.txt that references governance files such as llms.txt, ai-manifest.json, and interpretation policies helps AI systems understand your site faster and more accurately.</p>
<p>Better Robots.txt is one component of a broader digital readability practice that includes <a href="https://pagup.com/en/services/semantic-content-architecture/" rel="nofollow ugc">semantic content architecture</a>, <a href="https://pagup.com/en/services/ai-governance-and-machine-readability/" rel="nofollow ugc">AI governance and machine readability</a>, and <a href="https://pagup.com/en/glossary/interpretive-seo/" rel="nofollow ugc">interpretive SEO</a>.</p>
<h4>Part of the Pagup ecosystem</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://pagup.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">pagup.com</a> — Digital readability firm. Diagnostic, semantic architecture, AI governance.</li>
<li><a href="https://gautierdorval.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">gautierdorval.com</a> — Doctrine, canonical definitions, interpretive governance research.</li>
<li><a href="https://interpretive-governance.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">interpretive-governance.org</a> — Formal versioned standard for interpretive governance.</li>
<li><a href="https://better-robots.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">better-robots.com</a> — Documentation and resources for Better Robots.txt.</li>
</ul>


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