3.0 - Sprout SEO 🌱

Big version numbers, mean big changes!

This version introduces a name change from the "Technical SEO Rich Results & Schema Validator" to "Sprout SEO."

A new name, as the extension, will be way more than just an easy way for you to handle schema markup on your website and snoop on the schema of your competitors to improve yours.

So, what else has changed with version 3.0?

#1 Check the most important on-page SEO data

Analyze the on-page SEO elements of any page and find potential issues. The on-page shows you the following:

• Title and description (including JS rendered) and their character lengths
• The URL
• Canonical URL check
  
• Pagewide noindex/nofollow directives for crawlers (in meta tags and HTTP headers)
  
• Core Web Vital (Largest Contentful Paint - LCP + First Input Delay - FID + Cumulative Layout Shift - CLS) using CrUX data
• Word Count + the ability to export the page copy
• A quick overview of the amount of headings, links, and images on a page
• Sitemaps and robots.txt files
  
• You can see if your page can be indexed or has a canonical issue by looking at the status icon in your extension bar.

#2 Trace redirect paths and read HTTP headers easily

See if you have reached the destination page via a redirect and trace the entire redirect chain, including JS redirects.

• It allows you to read the HTTP headers of the URL easily, which may be challenging for casual browser users
  
• See the full path including their HTTP status code on how you arrived on your destination page
• See the HTTP status code of the page you're currently on via the icon in your browser's extension bar

#3 Migrations gone wrong? Export a CSV of all known URLs from archive.org

We all know the times when a client has approached you about a website migration that went wrong.

So can you recover? 

How can you figure out all the old URLs easily, without putting back a backup of the website?

Well, if your website is archived on archive.org from the "other tools" section, you can now create a CSV file of all known URLs straight from archive.org so you can start building your redirect mapping and get those rankings back how they should be.