Tests¶
Wygard runs a catalog of continuous SEO monitoring tests — each test watches one specific element on your site and fires an alert the moment it deviates from the stored baseline. This page lists every MVP test, alphabetically.
Tests fall into two scopes:
- URL test — watches one element on one URL (e.g. the canonical tag, the
<h1>, the meta description). - Web test — watches a website-level resource (e.g.
robots.txt, the sitemap tree, URL duplication across protocol and host variants).
Severity: 🔴 Danger — reported immediately after the crawl batch. 🟠 Heads-up — batched into a daily digest. — depends on the NOK reason.
| Test | Scope | Tier | Default | Alert |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical | URL | Basic | Yes | 🔴 |
| Custom on-page test | URL | Basic | No | 🟠 |
| H1 | URL | Basic | Yes | 🔴 |
| H2+ | URL | Basic | No | 🟠 |
| hreflang | URL | Advanced | Yes if present | 🟠 |
| Meta description | URL | Basic | Yes | 🟠 |
| Meta robots | URL | Basic | Yes | 🔴 |
| Meta title | URL | Basic | Yes | 🔴 |
| og:description | URL | Basic | No | 🟠 |
| og:image | URL | Basic | No | 🟠 |
| og:title | URL | Basic | No | 🟠 |
| og:url | URL | Basic | No | 🟠 |
| Redirect chain | URL | Basic | Yes if 3XX | 🔴 |
| Robots.txt — content changes | Web | Basic | Yes | — |
| Robots.txt — live sitemap included | Web | Basic | Yes | — |
| Robots.txt — max file size | Web | Basic | Yes | 🔴 |
| Robots.txt — status code | Web | Basic | Yes | 🔴 |
| Robots.txt — validity | Web | Basic | Yes | — |
| Self-canonical | URL | Basic | No | 🔴 |
| SitemapGroup — Size & Limit | Web | Basic | Yes | 🟠 |
| SitemapGroup — status code | Web | Basic | Yes | 🔴 |
| SitemapGroup — validity & format | Web | Basic | Yes | 🔴 |
| Status code | URL | Basic | Yes (mandatory) | 🔴 |
| Structured data | URL | Basic | No | 🟠 |
| URL Duplicity checker | Web | Basic | Yes | 🔴 |
Backlog tests not shown
Tests still in development (e.g. X-Robots, twitter:* cards, title length, pixel-width meta description, nested sitemap index detection) will appear here once they ship.