IndexLane Crawl Fetch Inspector

A WordPress plugin for checking redirects, indexing rules, sitemaps and structured data from your dashboard. Particularly handy when you’re launching a site or moving one.

DownloadVersion 0.2.0
IndexLane Crawl Fetch Inspector - main page
IndexLane Crawl Fetch Inspector - main page

About IndexLane Crawl Fetch Inspector

A website can look perfectly fine while quietly pointing Google towards the wrong URL. Or blocking a page you wanted indexed. Or still mentioning the staging domain you thought you’d removed everywhere. That last one has a habit of hiding.

Crawl Fetch Inspector puts these checks in one place. Give it a few URLs, include recently updated posts and pages, or let it take a sample from your sitemap. There’s also a launch and migration check that brings those checks together and looks for references to old domains.

For each page, you can follow the redirects, check its canonical URL and indexing instructions, and see whether robots.txt allows Googlebot to crawl it. It also checks sitemap membership and looks through the structured data for things such as invalid JSON or duplicate IDs.

When it finds an old or staging-domain reference, the report shows the value and where it came from. You get something specific to investigate.

The checks are read-only, so you can look around without changing your content or settings. Incomplete checks are marked as such, and you can export the results to CSV when you need to work through them or pass them to someone else.

Release history

Version 0.2.0

Crawl Fetch Inspector 0.2.0

This release rebuilds Crawl Fetch Inspector around one bounded, same-site WordPress fetch engine and expands the plugin into a broader crawler-facing evidence tool.

Highlights

  • Three scan modes: manual/recent URLs, distributed sitemap samples, and launch/migration checks.
  • Googlebot-specific robots.txt evaluation with crawler group precedence and longest-match Allow/Disallow behavior.
  • Automatic child-sitemap expansion, sampling across child sitemaps, resumable AJAX batches, and conservative Yes, No, or Unknown—incomplete membership.
  • JSON-LD block counts, raw JSON validity, @type inventory, and duplicate @id evidence.
  • Administrator-supplied old domains plus exact URL evidence from href, src, canonical/Open Graph fields, CSS URLs, and JSON-LD properties.
  • Complete, Partial, and Failed evidence states, sectioned reports, and expanded CSV export.
  • Behavioral fixtures for redirects, response truncation, robots precedence, sitemap partial evidence, JSON-LD, and migration residue.

The plugin remains read-only and same-site. External redirect destinations are recorded but not fetched.

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Version 0.1.2

Fix crawl fetch correctness

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Version 0.1.0

Initial release

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