Enter any WordPress URL. We fetch it through api/fetch-proxy.php and check the real on-page and technical SEO signals from the live HTML, then score them. No PHP backend deployed yet? Use the manual checklist below.
Who uses this and why
New in a role, or took over a client site, and need a fast, objective baseline before you promise anyone results. Scan the homepage and top pages to see what is already solid and what is quietly broken.
Traffic plateaued and the usual advice is not landing. A structured health read separates the foundational misses (noindex slips, missing canonicals, thin pages) from the nice-to-haves, so you fix the things that actually gate rankings.
Maybe your site is fine. Most owners never get a plain-language answer either way. This gives you one, and if everything is healthy, that is a useful answer too, it means the opportunity is in content and links, not fixes.
Answer engines quote pages that are well structured, indexable, and marked up. The same signals that make a page healthy for Google make it quotable by AI, this check surfaces both at once.
What a WordPress SEO health check actually measures
SEO advice online is endless, contradictory, and rarely tells you where your site stands. A health check cuts through that by looking at the signals that have to be right before anything else matters. Get these wrong and no amount of content or link building will save you; get them right and everything else you do compounds.
The checks fall into layers, and the order matters. Foundation first: is the page served securely, is it actually indexable, does it have a canonical so Google knows which version is real. Then on-page: a unique title that does not truncate, a meta description in range, one clear H1, a real heading structure. Then depth and structure: enough genuine content to answer the query, structured data so search engines and AI understand it, images described for accessibility and image search. Finally hygiene: a mobile viewport, a language attribute, and no leaking of your WordPress version to anyone scanning for vulnerable installs.
Why this is the hub, not the whole story
This tool reads one page at a time and covers page-level on-page and technical health. That is deliberately the widest, most reusable check, but a few things live outside a single page fetch. Page speed and Core Web Vitals need a performance run, so those have their own scorecard. Store-specific signals like product and faceted-navigation URLs belong to the WooCommerce audit. Site-wide questions, how many pages are indexed versus submitted, orphan pages, sitemap coverage, are answered by the indexing checker. Use this to find where the foundation is cracked, then the specialised tools for depth.
How to read your score
Treat the grade as triage, not a report card. An A means the foundations are sound and your effort is best spent on content and authority. A C or D almost always means one or two foundational misses are dragging everything down, and those are usually fast to fix. The per-signal breakdown tells you exactly which, so you are never guessing. Re-run after each fix to confirm it took.
Further reading from Digital Success
- Why sites lose organic traffic after a theme or template change — the exact foundational signals this checker looks for are the ones most often broken by a redesign.
A score is a starting point, not a strategy
Knowing your site is at 62% is useful. Knowing which three fixes will move the needle most, in what order, and how to implement them on a live WordPress site without breaking anything, is the hard part, and it is where most DIY SEO stalls. Foundations interact: fixing indexing changes what content work is worth doing, and content work changes what internal linking should look like.
Digital Success runs full WordPress SEO programs, from technical foundations to content and authority, for US and EU sites. Send us your scan and we will tell you what to fix first.
Frequently asked questions
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Does a healthy score guarantee I will rank?
Can Digital Success fix the issues it finds?
This tool provides general, illustrative guidance for planning and does not guarantee results. The checklist is shown above so you can verify each item yourself. Last reviewed September 2026 by the Digital Success web & SEO team.
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A score tells you where you stand; a plan tells you what to do next. Digital Success runs full WordPress SEO programs from technical foundations to content and authority. Send us your scan for a free, prioritised fix list.
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