iwebchk Review: 46 Free Checks, and Your Audit Goes Public

I like tools that ask for nothing. iwebchk asks for nothing: no email, no account, no credit card. You paste a URL, wait a moment, and get 46 technical checks and a percentage score.

Then I found the /reports page, which lists every domain anybody has recently audited, each with its score and a screenshot, all crawlable by Google. That changes how you should use this tool, and it is not mentioned anywhere near the URL box.

The verdict up front: 2.6/5

iwebchk earns 2.6 out of 5 from me: a genuinely useful free technical checker whose methodology has not moved since roughly 2017, and whose free tier publishes your audit in exchange. I scored it on five criteria:

• Breadth of free checks: 4/5. 46 checks spanning SEO, validation, security, performance and accessibility is a lot to give away.
• No-friction access: 5/5. No account, no email gate, no card. This is the tool's best quality and it is not a small one.
• Freshness of methodology: 1/5. Still reports PageRank and Alexa rank, both long retired, and still checks for Flash.
• Prioritization: 1/5. The ranked task list is paywalled, and free users get three generic strings.
• Privacy: 1/5. Every free audit is published at an indexable URL.

What is iwebchk?

iwebchk describes itself as a free SEO audit tool providing website analysis across SEO, performance, validity, security and accessibility. In practice it is a single-page technical checker: you submit one URL, it runs a battery of tests, and it returns one aggregate percentage.

Who runs it is genuinely unclear. There is no about page (the URL returns a 404), no named company, no team and no address. The terms of service place any claim under the laws of Illinois, contact runs through two email addresses, and the domain was registered on 29 May 2012 behind a privacy shield.

The 46 checks, grouped

The check list is the strongest thing about iwebchk, and it is broader than most free tools bother with. Grouped by what they actually tell you:

• On-page SEO: title, meta description, meta keywords, H1 to H6 structure, text-to-HTML ratio, keyword density and consistency, and image alt attributes.
• Validation and technical hygiene: W3C HTML and CSS validation, doctype, character encoding, language declaration, deprecated HTML, nested tables, frames and iframes.
• Indexability: robots.txt, XML sitemap, IP canonicalization, URL canonicalization and an indexed-pages estimate.
• Security: HTTPS and certificate detail, Google Safe Browsing, spam blacklist status, email obfuscation, directory browsing and server signature. This group is unusually thorough for a free tool.
• Performance: page speed via Google Lighthouse, reporting Speed Index, First Contentful Paint and Time to Interactive.
• Usability and links: favicon, custom versus soft 404, print CSS, and a broken link check scoped to the submitted page.
• Domain and server: whois, domain age, expiration, server info, ISP and geolocation, nameservers.

The privacy problem: your audit is public

This deserves its own section because nothing in the interface warns you. Free reports are not private links. They are listed publicly at iwebchk.com/reports, they carry the audited domain, the score and a screenshot, and they are crawlable and search-indexable. Archived PDF reports sit at public file paths too.

Three scenarios where that matters a lot:

• Client work. Auditing a prospect's site publishes the fact that someone audited it, alongside its score. That is a conversation you did not agree to have.
• Staging and pre-launch URLs. Submitting an unreleased subdomain adds it to a public, indexable list.
• Competitive research. Anyone can read the /reports list, which cuts both ways: you can see what others are checking, and they can see you.

The paid plan does not obviously change this, and iwebchk does not document a private-report option. Treat every free scan as publication.

iwebchk pricing (verified August 2026)

There is one paid plan at $19.99 per month, and finding that out is harder than it should be. iwebchk publishes no pricing page: /pricing returns a 404, and the figure appears only in a block of body copy on the homepage.

What the subscription includes, in the vendor's own terms: no setup fee, individual page analysis, unlimited reviews, report history, cancel anytime, and 2 roll-over white-label PDF reports with the ability to purchase additional PDFs. Two further details are worth pulling out:

• The refund window is two days. Full refunds are offered only if you cancel within two days of the subscription activating, which is short by any standard.
• Free results are cached for up to 96 hours. Subscribers are exempt. So on the free tier, re-running a report after a fix may hand you the old result for up to four days.

What the free report withholds

The 46 checks and the score are free. What the subscription actually buys is the interpretation layer, and a live report makes the gating visible.

The item that matters most is the Top Priorities panel, which is the only place iwebchk ranks anything by severity. Free users see three generic strings, roughly “add text or image anchors to all links”, “fix CSS validation errors” and “add more keyword-rich quality content”. Everything else is an unranked pass-or-fail list.

PageRank, Alexa and other ghosts

Some of iwebchk's checks are measuring things that no longer exist. This is not a nitpick; it tells you when the methodology was last revisited.

• PageRank. The methodology page still lists a check that measures Google importance metrics via PageRank. Toolbar PageRank was retired in 2016.
• Alexa traffic rank. The traffic check is powered by Alexa, which Amazon shut down in May 2022. In a live report it returns “Data could not be obtained”, with the explanation that Traffic Rank is provided by Alexa.
• Flash and framesets. Both still have checks. Adobe Flash reached end of life at the end of 2020.
• Google+. Report page markup still references a Google+ profile. That network closed in 2019.

Other checks simply fail. In the live report I examined, the accessibility check, domain age, domain expiration and visitor localization all returned no data. The engine runs; several of its data sources no longer answer.

The maintenance signals line up with that. The blog's most recent post is dated 22 December 2017, and the Chrome extension was last updated on 31 January 2020. Reports themselves are fresh, so the fairest description is a product that is maintained but not developed.

What iwebchk has no data on at all

Knowing the gaps matters more than knowing the features, because they define what you still have to go elsewhere for:

• No keyword or ranking data. No rank tracking, no search volume, no positions. The keyword density check measures word repetition on the page, not search demand.
• No traffic data. The only traffic check depended on Alexa and now returns nothing.
• No backlink data in the report. Backlinks appear as a category label and in the methodology, but no backlink section rendered in the live report I read.
• No Core Web Vitals. Lab metrics only: Speed Index, FCP and TTI. No LCP, CLS or INP, and no field data.
• No Search Console or GA4 connection. It detects that an analytics tag exists. It never reads your data.
• No API and no documented scheduled monitoring. Neither is mentioned anywhere on the site.

That last pair is the structural limit. Without your Search Console data, iwebchk cannot know that the page it just scored 76.5% is the page earning most of your clicks, or that a page it never saw lost 40% of its impressions last quarter. It grades hygiene, not consequence.

The accessibility check is real, and two versions behind

Credit where it is due: most free SEO checkers ignore accessibility entirely, and iwebchk ships a dedicated check covering image alternative text, heading structure, page titles and form labels.

The caveat is the standard it measures against. iwebchk tests WCAG 2.0 Level AA. WCAG 2.1 arrived in 2018 and WCAG 2.2 in 2023, so the tool is two versions behind, and it misses the newer success criteria around focus appearance, dragging movements and target size. In the live report I read, the check returned no data at all.

Treat it as a useful hint that something might be wrong, never as a compliance verdict.

iwebchk pros and cons

Who iwebchk is best for (and who should skip it)

Best for:

• A fast free second opinion. When another tool flags something and you want independent confirmation, iwebchk costs nothing and takes seconds.
• Validation and security spot-checks. The W3C validation and security header groups are the parts I would actually come back for.
• Teaching and learning. The report is a decent map of what technical SEO covers, and the methodology page explains each check.

Not ideal for:

• Client or confidential sites. The public reports list makes this the wrong tool for anything you would not announce.
• Anyone auditing more than a few pages. One URL per report, by hand, with no crawl.
• Anyone who needs Core Web Vitals or current metrics. The performance section predates the current signals.
• Anyone whose real problem is order of work. iwebchk paywalls its only ranked list, and even unlocked it ranks within one page rather than across your site.

What reviewers say about iwebchk

Almost nothing, and I want to be precise about how little. As of August 2026 there is no G2, Capterra, Trustpilot or Product Hunt listing for iwebchk. The entire verifiable review record is two browser extension stores:

• Firefox Add-ons: 3.7 out of 5 from 6 reviews, about 135 users, last updated 25 April 2024.
• Chrome Web Store: 4.0 out of 5 from 11 ratings, about 900 users, last updated 31 January 2020.
• AlternativeTo and SaaSHub both carry listings with no rating and no reviews.

That totals 17 star ratings across every platform combined, and no written user reviews anywhere. I will not invent quotes to fill the gap. The absence is the finding: nobody has stress-tested this tool in public, so you are relying on your own judgement of its output.

iwebchk alternatives

Four alternatives, matched to which part of iwebchk you were relying on:

• SEOptimer for the same paste-a-URL audit with a cleaner report and proper white-label output. It grades by section rather than one aggregate percentage: see our SEOptimer review.
• Woorank if you want the free-audit format plus competitive context. Our Woorank review covers where its scoring holds up.
• Screaming Frog the moment you need more than one URL. A desktop crawler is the right shape of tool for site-wide technical work, and our Screaming Frog review explains the trade-offs.
• Our free tools for the individual checks, without publishing anything. The broken link checker, indexability checker and image alt checker each do one of iwebchk's jobs on demand.
• CrawlRaven for the layer iwebchk paywalls and then only half-delivers. It joins your Search Console and GA4 data with your imported keyword lists and a 200-point technical crawl, then returns one ranked plan across the whole site. Lifetime licences from a one-time $49 at launch, with a free plan for 1 site. Lifetime pricing steps up as licenses sell, so check the pricing page for the current batch. See current pricing, or the technical SEO audit page for what the 200 points cover.

Frequently asked questions

Basics

• What is iwebchk? A free single-page website checker that runs 46 technical tests on a URL and returns one percentage score, covering on-page SEO, W3C validation, security, performance, broken links and WCAG 2.0 accessibility. No account is needed.
• Is it still maintained? The engine returns fresh reports, but the blog stopped in December 2017, the Chrome extension has not shipped since January 2020, and the methodology still lists PageRank and Alexa. Maintained, not developed.
• Does it check accessibility? Yes, against WCAG 2.0 Level AA, which is two versions behind the current WCAG 2.2. In the live report I read, the check returned no data.

Pricing

• How much does iwebchk cost? $19.99 per month for its one paid plan, with a 7-day trial, verified August 2026. The figure appears only in homepage body copy because there is no pricing page.
• What does paying unlock? The prioritized task list, mobile rendering and optimization analysis, full page speed detail, the complete link list, Facebook and Twitter analysis, report history, and 2 roll-over white-label PDF reports per month.
• Can I get a refund? Only if you cancel within two days of the subscription activating, per the homepage copy. That is a notably short window.

Limits and privacy

• Are my reports private? No. Free audits are published at public URLs under iwebchk.com/reports with the domain, score and a screenshot, and those pages are search-indexable. Do not use it on confidential or client sites without permission.
• Can it audit my whole site? No. One URL per report, at any price. There is no crawl.
• Does it connect to Search Console or GA4? No. It detects that an analytics tag is present but never reads your data, so it has no impressions, clicks or sessions.

Final verdict: should you use iwebchk?

2.6/5. iwebchk is worth bookmarking and worth understanding the limits of. As a free, instant, no-signup second opinion on one page's technical hygiene it still earns its place, particularly for W3C validation and security headers. As a source of truth in 2026 it does not.

• Use the free tier for quick checks on sites you own or would happily discuss in public, and read the score as a rough hygiene signal rather than a grade.
• Do not use it on client or confidential sites until iwebchk offers documented private reports.
• Think twice about the $19.99 plan. It mainly buys prioritization within a single page, and the stale methodology comes with it.
• Go elsewhere for the real job. If the question is which of your pages to fix first, work from a structured audit, or let CrawlRaven build the ranked plan from your own Search Console data.

Sources

• iwebchk homepage: the $19.99/month plan, 7-day trial, 2-day refund window and 96-hour free cache; verified August 2026
• iwebchk tool directory: the full list of 46 individual checks
• iwebchk methodology: still lists PageRank and Alexa traffic rank among its measures
• iwebchk public reports index: every recent free audit, listed publicly with domain and score
• iwebchk accessibility test: tests against WCAG 2.0 Level AA
• iwebchk terms of service: governed by the laws of Illinois; no company name given
• iwebchk on Firefox Add-ons: 3.7/5 from 6 reviews, about 135 users; verified August 2026
• iwebchk on the Chrome Web Store: 4.0/5 from 11 ratings, last updated 31 January 2020
• iwebchk on SaaSHub: listing with no rating and no reviews