A 15-Minute Self-Run Website Health Check Using Free Tools

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The article outlines a quick first-pass method for spotting obvious website problems without hiring an agency, using free tools like Chrome DevTools, PageSpeed Insights, and a few curl commands. It is meant only for sites the reader owns or has permission to test, and it does not substitute for a full audit, penetration test, or real-user performance data. The process involves running a Lighthouse or PageSpeed analysis on the homepage and an important inner page, then noting issues such as oversized images, render-blocking scripts or fonts, and missing image dimensions. Core Web Vitals thresholds for LCP, INP, and CLS are provided as benchmarks where field data exists. Finally, the guide recommends checking basic SEO and sharing elements such as title, meta description, heading structure, canonical URL, Open Graph tags, and the robots.txt and sitemap.xml files.

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