Well, almost ! Xinu is this great new “Jack-of-all-trades” tool that analyses and returns a horde of SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) related information regarding your site, neatly stacked in a single page. A real time-saver if you ask me.
All you go to do is enter your site’s URL and hit Go. The results are fetched using AJAX – so you don’t have to suffer long wait periods while all the factors are summed up and displayed. In fact, the interface comes up with pre-created tables and SEO factor titles, where the values are simply plugged-in later on.
Among the results provided are:
- Screen-shot of your site
- A mini site diagnosis involving your URL’s difficulty-to-remember score, site title score (based on the number of words), keywords & description, HTML file size, number of each types of tags etc. Surprisingly, this section reported that my site doesn’t have a favicon and I need to get one, whereas you can see mine (the blue flask) the moment you land-up at my site.
- A small domain panel that shows the IP your domain resolves to, the country where your host is located, the site author’s name and if possible the age of the domain.
- A site ranking panel that displays you Google PageRank, Technorati rank, Alexa Traffic rank as well as the number of DMOZ listings.
- Couple of lines of information on the type of syndication (feeds) offered by your site and the number of subscribers.
- Number of inbound links from various well-known Social Bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, Digg, Clipmarks as well as from lesser-known ones like Mister Wong, Meneame etc.
- Site markup validity information broken up into HTML, CSS and Feeds.
- Number of indexed pages on Google, Yahoo and Live.
- Lastly, the number of backlinks from all major search engines like Google, Yahoo, AllTheWeb, AskJeeves etc.
All in all a pretty good tool – although a bit buggy in places. Hopefully, they’ll fix these soon. What I like best about Xinu is that you can stop scampering around half of the internet just to check on all the important SEO aspects of your site.
Mirco said:
A have installed xinu on my server and done a lot of changes and bugfixes. So my version is running a lot better, and it’s translated to german. And I am still working on my version to get it better. xinureturns isn’t working on the software.
miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG said:
Micro: Thanks for that bit of info. I checked out 5ment.com and indeed it’s fixed most of the problems that Xinu has. However, it still reports that my site doesn’t have a favicon ! Wonder why.
mark said:
Good read, thanks. Seo is important. Looking for good free rank checking software.