Checkup

Your site's checkup

Open Checkup in your site's editor to see how easily search engines and every visitor can find and use your site. It gives your site a score out of 100 and lists what to fix, the most important first. Each item has a button that opens the place to fix it.

The checkup follows your latest version, so it changes as soon as you save. Publish to put your fixes live.

What it checks

• Your site is live. Search engines can only list a published site that doesn't ask for a password. See Publish your site.
• Search titles and descriptions. Each page has its own, short enough to show whole in search results: about 60 characters for a title and 155 for a description. Change them in Pages, in a page's details.
• Image descriptions. Every image visitors see has a description, which screen readers say aloud and search engines read. Add them in Visuals.
• A site icon and a share picture. The icon shows beside your site in search results and browser tabs. The picture shows when someone shares a link to your site.
• Google Search Console. See Google Search Console.
• Your own domain. An address of your own is easier to remember and trust. See your own domain.

What Shingle checks for you

Shingle checks every page at phone and desktop size before it can be previewed or published: text contrast, one main heading, names for buttons, links and form fields, the page's language, images that load, and nothing wider than the screen.

Every published site also has a sitemap, and your business details in the form search engines read.

What the score means

The score weighs what matters most. Being live counts most, then titles, descriptions and image descriptions. A score of 100 means there's nothing left to fix. It can't promise where your site shows up in search results: search engines decide that.