Audit the page without leaving the page
A free Chrome side panel that checks meta tags, headings, links, images, schema, social cards, and rendering on whatever tab you are looking at. Real status codes, not just a DOM read.
The CrawlRaven SEO Toolbar is a free Chrome extension that runs a live on-page SEO audit in a side panel, so you can check a page while you are editing, reviewing, or QA-ing it. No account, no sign-up: install it and open the panel. Issue counts sit as badges on each tab. It works on staging and logged-in pages a crawler cannot reach, which is exactly where most problems are cheapest to fix.
What each panel checks
Eight panels, each carrying its own issue-count badge so you can triage before you click:
Overview
Title tag, meta description, and canonical, each checked against length thresholds you set. Plus heading, image, and link counts, an indexability verdict in plain English, and live sitemap discovery showing whether the current URL is actually included.
Headings
The full outline with real hierarchy and heading text, H1 to H6 counts, a warning when a level is skipped, and a one-click Copy outline.
Links
Internal, external, follow, and nofollow totals, plus Check status to fetch a real HTTP status code for every link on the page. Filter, search by anchor text, export CSV.
Images
Dimensions, file size, and usage count per image, with issue codes for missing alt, empty alt, alt too long, wrong aspect ratio, and oversized files.
Schema
Every structured data type found on the page, chipped and expandable into a flat key-value table. Separate hreflang view. Exportable.
Social
The actual social card, rendered as it will appear when shared, alongside the raw Open Graph and Twitter tags that produced it.
Advanced
Captured HTTP response headers, redirect chains, and a raw vs rendered comparison showing HTML length against extracted text length, which is how you catch client-side rendering problems.
Settings
Set your own title and meta description length thresholds so the Overview warnings match your house style, and choose whether to scan CSS background images.
Two things most SEO extensions do not do
It actually checks the links
Most extensions read the DOM and report what the markup claims. This one has a Check status button that fetches a real HTTP status code for every link on the page and renders it inline, so a 404 in your footer shows up as a 404 rather than as a link that looks fine in the source. Images get the same treatment, with dimensions, file size, and usage count per file.
Both export to CSV with their issue codes attached, which matters when the person who has to fix the problem is not the person who found it.
It shows you raw versus rendered
The Advanced panel puts HTML length next to extracted text length. When those numbers diverge sharply, your content is arriving through JavaScript, and that is the single most common reason a page that looks fine to a human is invisible to an AI engine. Almost no AI crawler executes JavaScript.
Why this is the AI-search check that matters
A visibility tracker can tell you ChatGPT is not citing a page. It cannot tell you the page ships an empty shell. Raw vs rendered can, in about two seconds, on the page you are already looking at. Our AI search readiness audit runs the same check across every page and ranks the failures by the impressions behind them.
Where the extension stops and the platform starts
The extension audits one page, right now. That is genuinely the right tool while you are writing, reviewing a draft, or checking a template change on staging.
What it cannot do is tell you which page to care about. That needs your performance data, and it is the job the platform does:
- Connect Search Console and GA4 so every finding arrives with the impressions, clicks, and engagement sitting behind it.
- Import your Ahrefs or Semrush keyword lists and map them to the pages that should rank for them.
- Run the 200-point crawl across every page instead of the one in front of you.
- Get one ranked plan: what to write, what to update, what to fix first, ordered by what it is costing you.
Same checks, different scope. The Audit your whole site link in the panel footer is there for the moment a single-page fix turns into a site-wide pattern.
Who it is for
- Writers and editors checking heading structure and meta length before publishing
- Developers verifying schema and rendering on a staging URL the crawler cannot reach
- Consultants doing a fast prospect audit without setting up an account or a crawl
- Anyone who has shipped a page with a broken footer link and found out from a client
Chrome extension FAQ
What it checks, and where the platform picks up.
Check the page you are on, then the other ten thousand
Install the side panel free for per-page audits, no account required. Connect Search Console and GA4 when you want the same checks across every page, ranked by the traffic behind them.