What's new?

Big version numbers mean significant 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.

Small bugfix 🐛 release

Added a quick and easy way to test the currently open tab with some of the most commonly used SEO tools:

• Open page in Search Console
• Search page with Google Site Search
• Open page in Page Speed Insights
• Open page in Google Cache
• Open page in Google’s AMP Test
• Open domain in Similiar Web
• Open page in the Wayback Machine
• Open domain in the Wayback Machine
• Open page in the W3C Validator
• Open domain in “Built with”
• Open page in Ahrefs (Perfomance)
• Open page in Ahrefs (Backlinks)
• Open domain in BuzzSumo
• Open page in Majestic
• Open page in Moz
• Open page in Semrush (Performance)
• Open page in Semrush (Backlinks)
• Open domain in Whois

Dark mode 🌘!!

Sometimes, with a lot of schema on a page, you end up scrolling endlessly.

That is now a thing of the past.

The extension now groups similar types of schema markup together and shows you a count of how many of those particular schema types are found on the page.

Similar to what you’re seeing on the Rich Results tester and that most technical SEO’s are probably familiar with.

While the initial version was just two buttons to quickly validate any schema markup on the page you’re visiting, this one immediately marks a big jump forward.

A little Christmas gift to the technical SEO community 🎄

This release added the option to view any schema markup on the page that you’re visiting and allows you to immediately download all schema from the page you’re viewing, or download the individual types found on the page with their keys and values.

Initial release, we’re live!

This first release lets you quickly validate any website for its schema markup.

At the click of a button, you can validate the page you’re currently on using Google’s Rich Results tester or the schema.org validator.