Is Your Website Actually Healthy? Find Out in Seconds

February 12, 2026Updated February 19, 20264 min read

Your website loads. It looks right. Customers can check out. So it must be healthy, right? That is what most site owners assume, and it is almost never the full picture.

The stuff you cannot see by visiting your own site

There is a whole layer of your website that never shows up when you visit it in a browser. Security headers that should be set but are not. Assets shipping uncompressed because nobody configured gzip. Server version numbers exposed in response headers, giving attackers a head start. Structured data that is missing or broken. Open Graph tags that make your pages look terrible when shared on social media.

None of this causes a visible error. Your site still loads, your forms still work, your images still show up. But search engines notice. Attackers notice. AI systems that decide whether to cite your content notice. These invisible gaps are quietly costing you traffic, security, and credibility every single day.

In my experience, the sites that look fine on the surface are the ones with the most surprises underneath. I have seen WordPress sites running for years with no HSTS header, no Content Security Policy, and XML-RPC wide open. The owners had no idea because nothing was visibly broken.

Why we built Site Pulse

We kept running into the same pattern. Someone would ask us to look at their site, and within minutes we would find a dozen issues that had been there for months. Missing cache headers. No structured data. Security headers completely absent. The site looked fine. It was not fine.

The tools that already exist tend to go one of two ways. Some only test speed. Others dump hundreds of data points on you with no clear priority. We wanted something different. A single scan that checks what actually matters across all three pillars of a healthy website: performance, security, and search visibility.

So we built it. Site Pulse scans your website and grades it across 40+ signals in about 15 seconds. No account required. No email gate. Just paste a URL and see where you stand.

What it actually checks

Site Pulse grades your site from A+ to F in three categories. Each one reflects a different dimension of website health that most site owners never think about until something goes wrong.

Performance covers the fundamentals. Compression, browser caching, render-blocking resources, image formats, response times. The things that determine whether your site feels fast or sluggish. A site can score 90 on PageSpeed and still fail here if the underlying server configuration is off.

Security checks the headers and configurations that protect your visitors and your reputation. HSTS, Content Security Policy, X-Frame-Options, version exposure, XML-RPC status. Most WordPress sites ship with almost none of these set by default. You would never know unless you checked.

Search and AEO looks at the signals that help both traditional search engines and AI systems understand your content. Structured data, meta tags, Open Graph, canonical URLs, llms.txt. This is the category where I see the biggest gaps on otherwise well built sites. People invest in content but forget the metadata that makes it discoverable.

Every check is weighted by how much it actually matters. A missing HSTS header counts more than a missing X-Content-Type-Options header. Missing structured data counts more than a missing meta description. The grades reflect real world impact, not just a checklist.

No signup, no catch

Paste a URL. Get your grade. That is it.

If you want to save the results, you can email yourself the full report. But there is no account to create, no free trial that expires, no credit card form hiding behind the results. We built this as a genuinely free tool because a healthier web is better for everyone, including us.

If your scan turns up issues and you are running WordPress, we will point you toward the plugin that can help. BoostPro for performance. ArmorPro for security. CitedPro for SEO and AI visibility. But using them is entirely optional. The scan is useful on its own regardless of what platform you are on.

See where your site stands

Most website problems are invisible until they are expensive. A security breach you did not see coming. A traffic drop because search engines could not parse your content properly. Slow load times bleeding conversions for months before anyone notices.

Site Pulse takes 15 seconds and gives you a clear picture. No guessing, no digging through developer tools, no hiring someone to audit your site. Just a grade and a list of what to fix first. Give it a try and see what is actually going on under the hood.