The free check
How old is your website, really?
Paste the address. We open the page the way a browser does, read what comes back, and tell you in plain words what it says about the site — what it was built with, what a search engine can use, and what an automatic accessibility pass sees. It takes about twenty seconds and costs nothing.
This check is protected by reCAPTCHA; Google’s privacy policy and terms of service apply. It runs when you press the button, and on no other page of this site.
What it does
One page, opened the way a visitor opens it.
A real browser loads the address, runs the page, and we read what the server sent: the headers, the markup, the pictures, the cookies, the errors the page logged on its way up. Nothing is guessed from the domain name, and nothing is compared against a list of sites we have seen before.
It is one page — the one at the address you gave. A site has hundreds, and a report that claims to have measured all of them from one is a report that is wrong about most of them. So the number on this page is about this page, and we say so on it.
- A real browser, a real page load, a real render
- The title, the description, the headings, the links, the pictures
- An automatic accessibility pass over what was rendered
- What the page says it was built with, and roughly when that build is from
What it will not do
We do not go looking, and we do not scan strangers.
We read the one answer your website gives every visitor. We do not ask for files that are not linked, we do not try to guess what software version you run, we do not send a form, and we never try a password. If your site asks software like ours to stay away, we stop and say so.
Security is the part that belongs to whoever owns the site. Reading how a website is protected is a judgement about somebody’s property, so that section is not shown — and not even worked out — until the person looking tells us the site is theirs. That is the whole rule, and it costs us a section on a page we would rather have full.
- No looking for files, no version probing, no login attempts
- robots.txt honoured, on the address we land on after redirects
- No security reading without a declaration from you
- Nothing stored about the site beyond the report itself
What the number means
A score you can argue with.
Each part has a score out of a hundred and a word for it, worked out from what was actually read — not from an opinion about your design. Under it sit the things that made the number what it is, each one a sentence you could hand to whoever maintains the site.
When something could not be measured we say so instead of scoring it anyway. "The speed audit did not finish" is a fact; a number invented in its place is not. And every section lists what it does not cover, because the honest part of a report is the part that names its own edges.
- A score per part, and the reasons under it
- What could not be measured, named
- One page, one moment, said on the report
Questions about the check
Does it cost anything?
No, and there is nothing to sign up for. It is a page load and some reading on our side — a few cents of computing — so we can offer it to anyone. Rebuilding the site is the part that costs money, and that is a separate decision you make afterwards.
Why is there no security section?
Because you have not told us the site is yours. Reading how a website is protected is a judgement about somebody else’s property, and we will not publish one on a stranger’s say-so. Declare that the site is yours — or that you manage it, or that its owner authorised you — and the section appears. We record that declaration with the time, the address and the network address you came from.
Why does the security section not name the findings?
A score says a site is poorly configured. A list says which door is open, and that is a different kind of document. We write one only for somebody with an account, so there is a name behind every detailed report we produce. You get the number and how many things there are, at what severity, straight away.
Does the check change anything on my site?
No. It loads one page, the way any visitor does, and reads the answer. It sends nothing your site would not have received from an ordinary browser, writes nothing, and submits no form.
The report is about one page. Can you look at the whole site?
Not from here. Reading a whole site is the first stage of a rebuild — it walks the pages, honours the rules the site sets for software, and asks you before it goes past a certain size. That happens inside the platform, after you have told us the site is yours.
What happens to the address I paste?
We keep the report for a day so a second look at the same address does not cost another page load, and we keep a note of how many checks came from your network address so one script cannot use them all. If you declare the site is yours, that declaration is stored as a record. Nothing about you is stored otherwise.
You have the “before”. Now see the “after”.
Nine designs for this address, in a few minutes, without an account — and every page ReWynder builds has to pass the same checks you just read.
ReWynder is not open to customers yet — both buttons lead to the waiting list today, and we write the moment you can start.