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Getting started with SiteReview

SiteReview is a WordPress plugin that produces a comprehensive, document-style audit of a WordPress site. The output is a self-contained web report you can share with a client by URL or save as a single HTML file.

What SiteReview does

A single scan covers eight functional areas of a WordPress site:

  • WordPress Status — core version, PHP version, plugin inventory, plugin update lag
  • Performance — Google PageSpeed Insights on mobile and desktop, Core Web Vitals, opportunities
  • Site Security — SSL certificate, Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade, malware and blacklist checks, WordPress hardening checks, deep state of installed security plugins
  • Mobile Friendliness — viewport meta, tap targets, font size, content-width audits
  • Accessibility — WCAG 2.2 AA testing on every scanned page via bundled axe-core
  • Hosting — server software, PHP version, database engine, HTTP/2, origin location, hosting provider inference
  • Domain and DNS — registrar, expiry, lock and DNSSEC, A/AAAA/MX/NS/CAA records, SPF, DKIM, DMARC
  • SEO — robots.txt, sitemaps, SEO plugin detection, per-page meta titles and descriptions, H1 usage, canonicals, Open Graph and Twitter Cards, schema markup, image alt coverage

Each scan covers the homepage plus up to five additional Pages you select from a dropdown of your published Pages.

Who it is for

SiteReview is built for two audiences:

  • WordPress agencies that produce client-facing audit reports as part of onboarding, sales discovery, post-incident diagnosis, or pre-renewal reviews
  • In-house WordPress operators auditing their own site before engaging a vendor or after a redesign

The tool is designed around a one-scan-and-share pattern, not ongoing monitoring. There is no dashboard, no scheduled scans, no scan history.

What you get on Free

The Free tier produces a complete report with every section fully populated:

  • All eight sections, all visualizations, all measured findings
  • Rule-based narrative for each section, written deterministically from the measurements
  • Deterministic remediation prose for each finding — usable as-is in a client deliverable
  • A public report URL you can share with clients
  • A single-file HTML download that bundles all styles, scripts, fonts, and images into one self-contained file
  • A small SteadyPress footer credit on the rendered report

The Free tier makes zero calls to SteadyPress servers. It uses Google PageSpeed Insights, Mozilla HTTP Observatory, Sucuri SiteCheck, public DNS and RDAP, and a bundled geolocation database directly.

What Pro adds

Pro adds exactly five capabilities on top of Free:

  1. AI-authored narrative for the executive summary, recommendations, and each section
  2. Deep theme analysis — version-gap analysis for recognized themes, AI source-code review for custom or unrecognized themes
  3. Inline editing of every text element in the report from within the WordPress admin
  4. White-label — the SteadyPress mark, eyebrow, and footer are replaced with your agency name, logo, tagline, primary color, and accent color
  5. Token rotation — issue a new public URL token to invalidate a previously shared link

Existing public report URLs continue to work if a Pro license lapses; subsequent scans revert to Free output.

Five-minute quickstart

  1. Install SiteReview from the WordPress plugin directory (search for SiteReview) and activate it.
  2. Open SteadyPress > SiteReview in the WordPress admin. The onboarding modal will walk you through getting a free Google PageSpeed Insights API key — this takes about three minutes and is required for the Performance, Mobile, and SEO sections to produce complete results.
  3. Paste the API key into the field inside the modal and click Test connection.
  4. Optionally enter a Pro license key. You can skip this and add it later in Settings.
  5. On the New Scan view, the homepage is pre-selected and locked. Add up to five additional Pages from the dropdown.
  6. Click Run Scan. The scan typically completes in three to six minutes depending on page count and host responsiveness.
  7. When the scan completes, click the View Report tab. You can read the report inline, copy its public URL to share with a client, or click Download HTML for a single-file copy.

That's the full loop. A typical agency uses SiteReview once per client and stops there.

Where the report lives

Reports are written as static HTML files to the WordPress uploads directory at /wp-content/uploads/sitereview/reports/{token}/index.html. The public URL /sitereview-reports/{token}/ rewrites to that file. Because the file is served by your web server, not by WordPress, existing report URLs continue to work even if SiteReview is later deactivated. The single-file HTML download is a snapshot — it stays exactly as downloaded regardless of subsequent edits or re-runs.

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