SEO Tester — library for searching SEO issues

The library for analyze a HTML files to show all of the SEO defects.

Link to article https://maddevs.io/insights/blog/seo-analyzer/

Translations of documentation

• English
• Russian

Advantages of this plugin

• Easy setup.
• Adding custom rules.
• 6 ready-made rules.
• Running the seo-tester for Next.js SSR applications.
• Running the seo-tester for SPA applications.
• Running the seo-tester in pipelines(github, gitlab, ...) or pre-push or anywhere else.
• Multiple options for outputting the result.

Why you should use Seo Analyzer

• Saves time: will save you from manually searching for seo problems.
• Seo Friendly: will save your project from problems with search engines.
• It’s free: we’re happy to share the results of our work.

Installation

Install with npm

npm install -D @seo-tester/seo-tester

Usage

Getting started

Setting up the SEO analyzer is as simple as possible. It will look something like this:

const SeoTester = require('@seo-tester/seo-tester');

new SeoTester()
  .inputFiles(<array>)
  .addRule(<function>)
  .addRule(<function>)
  .outputConsole();

Next I will show you some examples.

One way: file analysis for SPA application and log report to console

const SeoTester = require('@seo-tester/seo-tester');

new SeoTester()
  .ignoreUrls(['/404', '/login'])
  .inputSpaFolder('/dist', 'sitemapindex.xml', 3000)
  .addRule('imgTagWithAltAttributeRule')
  .outputConsole();

Two way: read a list HTML files and log report to console

const SeoTester = require('@seo-tester/seo-tester');

new SeoTester()
  .inputFiles(['index.html', 'about.html'])
  .addRule('imgTagWithAltAttributeRule')
  .outputConsole();

Three way: read a folders with HTML files and log report to console

const SeoTester = require('@seo-tester/seo-tester');

new SeoTester()
  .inputFolders(['dist', 'src'])
  .addRule('imgTagWithAltAttributeRule')
  .outputConsole();

Fourth way: read a folders with HTML files and return json

const SeoTester = require('@seo-tester/seo-tester');

new SeoTester()
  .inputFolders(['dist', 'src'])
  .addRule('imgTagWithAltAttributeRule')
  .outputJson(json => console.log(json));

Fifth way: ignore subfolder "test" and 404.html in folder "src" and return js object

const SeoTester = require('@seo-tester/seo-tester');

new SeoTester()
  .ignoreFolders(['src/test'])
  .ignoreFiles(['src/404.html'])
  .inputFolders(['dist', 'src'])
  .addRule('imgTagWithAltAttributeRule')
  .outputObject(obj => console.log(obj));

Sixth way: file analysis for Next.js SSR application and log report to console

const SeoTester = require('@seo-tester/seo-tester');

new SeoTester()
  .inputNextJs(3000)
  .addRule('imgTagWithAltAttributeRule')
  .outputConsole();

Available methods:

| Method | Params | Description | |----------------|----------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------| | ignoreFiles | ['dist/about.html'] | This method expects an array of files to ignore before analysis. | | ignoreFolders | ['dist/ignore'] | This method expects an array of folders to ignore before analysis. | | ignoreUrls | ['/404'] | This method expects an array of urls to ignore before analysis. | | inputFiles | ['dist/index.html'] | This method expects an array of html files. | | inputFolders | ['dist', 'src'] | This method expects an array of folders with html files. | | inputSpaFolder | '/dist', 'sitemap.xml', 3000 | This method expects an string of folder with SPA builded files to production & port for run server. | | inputNextJs | 3000 | This method expects a port for run next.js server. | | addRule | function(dom) {} | This method adds a custom rule to check incoming HTML files. | | outputObject | function(obj) {} | This method will return the report as a javascript object. | | outputJson | function(json) {} | This method will return the report in JSON format. | | outputConsole | null | This method must be used at the very end of the chain, because it completes the process in the console. |

List of rules that are available by default

Below are the rules that are executed for each file transferred to Seo Analyzer. They are disabled by default and must be added.

Title Length Rule

Checks the length of tag <title>. Two parameters are accepted:

• min: minimum length of the header
• max: maximum length of the header

.addRule('titleLengthRule', { min: 10, max: 50 })

Img Tag With Alt Attribute Rule

Checks if all <img> tags have alt="" attribute.

.addRule('imgTagWithAltAttributeRule')

<a> Tag With Rel Attribute Rule

Checks if all <a> tags have rel="" attribute.

.addRule('aTagWithRelAttributeRule')

Meta Base Rule

Checks if the specified basic meta tags are present on the page. Accepts one parameter:

• list: list of required meta tags

.addRule('metaBaseRule', { list: ['description', 'viewport'] })

Meta Social Rule

Checks if the specified social meta tags are present on the page. Accepts one parameter:

• properties: list of required meta tags

.addRule('metaSocialRule', {
  properties: [
    'og:url',
    'og:type',
    'og:site_name',
    'og:title',
    'og:description',
    'og:image',
    'og:image:width',
    'og:image:height',
    'twitter:card',
    'twitter:text:title',
    'twitter:description',
    'twitter:image:src',
    'twitter:url'
  ], 
})

Canonical Link Rule

Checks if a canonical link exists on the page.

.addRule('canonicalLinkRule')

Add custom rule

A custom rule is a function that takes a DOM tree argument.

function customRule(dom) {
  return new Promise(async (resolve, reject) => {
    const paragraph = dom.window.document.querySelector('p');
    if (paragraph) {
      resolve('');
    } else {
      reject('Not found <p> tags');
    }
  });
}

...
.addRule(customRule)
...

What's new

One new rule was created and three obsolete rules were deleted.

✅: added
❌: removed

| ✅ | ❌ | Rule | Description | | :---: | :---: | :--- | :--- | | ✅ | | inputNextJs | Running the seo-tester for Next.js SSR applications | | |❌ | hTagsRule | Only for HTML4 | | |❌ | noMoreThanOneH1TagRule | Only for HTML4 | | |❌ | noTooManyStrongTagsRule | Only for HTML4 |

Example of the output of all SEO defects in the console.

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🚀  Analysis of files

==> Analysis example/index.html
Handling files by rules |████████████████████████████████████████| 100% || 11/11 Rules

🚀  Report of errors

File: example/index.html
<title> too short(1). The minimum length should be 10 characters.
This HTML have more than 2 <strong> tags
This HTML without <meta property="og:url"> tag
This HTML without <meta property="og:type"> tag
This HTML without <meta property="og:site_name"> tag
This HTML without <meta property="og:title"> tag
This HTML without <meta property="og:description"> tag
This HTML without <meta property="og:image"> tag
This HTML without <meta property="og:image:width"> tag
This HTML without <meta property="og:image:height"> tag
This HTML without <meta property="twitter:card"> tag
This HTML without <meta property="twitter:text:title"> tag
This HTML without <meta property="twitter:description"> tag
This HTML without <meta property="twitter:image:src"> tag
This HTML without <meta property="twitter:url"> tag
Tag <h3>Title 3</h3> should be </h2>
This HTML have more than one <h1> tag
There are 1 <img> tag without alt attribute
This HTML without <meta name="keywords"> tag
There are 1 <a> tag without rel attribute
The canonical link without href attribute

-------- 🚀 Finished! --------
Thanks for using Seo Analyzer!

or

👍 SEO defects were not detected.

Licensing

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2021 Mad Devs

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