# Crawlory

> Crawlory is a WordPress technical SEO audit plugin created by Irakli Antidze. It scans public, server-rendered WordPress pages and reports actionable SEO and site health issues.

Crawlory.app: https://crawlory.app/
Creator: Irakli Antidze (https://irakli.life/)
Creator profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irakliantidze/
Current plugin version: 1.3.0 (free ZIP download)
Download: https://crawlory.app/crawlory-v1.3.0.zip
License: GPLv2 or later

## What Crawlory does

Crawlory inspects public HTML and HTTP responses without using administrative sessions or forwarding administrative cookies. It supports sitewide audits and targeted scans, including individual public URLs. Findings are available in the Crawlory dashboard and in editor panels for supported public WordPress content.

## Audit coverage

Crawlory includes 33 checks covering:
- SEO titles: missing, multiple, duplicate, shorter than 30 characters, or longer than 60 characters.
- Meta descriptions: missing, multiple, duplicate, shorter than 70 characters, or longer than 155 characters.
- Headings: missing or multiple H1s, empty headings, and skipped heading levels.
- URLs: non-Latin scripts, emojis, uppercase characters, and URLs longer than 115 characters.
- Images: missing alt attributes and broken image responses.
- Crawl and indexing: published pages returning HTTP errors, robots directives, Googlebot blocks in robots.txt, canonical issues, redirect chains and loops, sitemap inconsistencies, and potential orphan pages.
- Links: broken internal links and broken external links.
- Other checks: Open Graph title and description, JSON-LD syntax, thin main content, and responsive viewport metadata.

## Workflow and accuracy

Long scans continue in background batches. Findings have lifecycle states: new, persistent, resolved, and reappeared. Failed fetches and incomplete resource checks are recorded without falsely resolving earlier findings. Single-URL rescans fetch fresh resource results.

Crawlory evaluates public server-rendered HTML without executing JavaScript. Content added only by browser-side JavaScript is outside the scan. Findings are review prompts, not ranking guarantees; length guidelines and URL character checks require context. Unsaved editor changes, private content, and drafts are not included in visitor-mode scans.

## Compatibility and requirements

Crawlory inspects rendered output from supported SEO plugins, including Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One SEO, and SEOPress. Requirements: WordPress 5.8 or later, PHP 7.4 or later, MySQL 5.7+ or MariaDB 10.3+, and PHP extensions mbstring, DOM, libxml, JSON, and cURL.

No paid API key or external SEO subscription is required.

## Installation

1. Download https://crawlory.app/crawlory-v1.3.0.zip
2. In WordPress, open Plugins > Add New > Upload Plugin.
3. Select the ZIP, install it, and activate Crawlory.
4. Open the Crawlory dashboard in WordPress admin.

## Pages

- [33 Technical SEO Issues Explained](https://crawlory.app/seo-issues/): Definitions, SEO impact, fixes, and prioritization for WordPress pages, posts, and products.

- [Crawlory home](https://crawlory.app/): Overview, features, and common questions.
- [Installation](https://crawlory.app/#install): Download and install instructions.
- [Release notes](https://crawlory.app/#release-notes): Changes in version 1.3.0.
- [Plugin download](https://crawlory.app/crawlory-v1.3.0.zip): Current free plugin ZIP.
- [Creator](https://irakli.life/): Irakli Antidze.