What's new in Checkbot for Chrome 1.4.0
Jul 18, 2020
- Improved:
- Reworked implementation to require less Chrome permissions than before. If you have Checkbot installed already, you might get a pop-up asking you to confirm the permissions being used. As before, Checkbot needs the permissions it asks for to download URLs from any domain so it can perform crawls on any website you might asked to be tested.
- Improved:
- Dashboard changes: The web page preview has been replaced with a summary of the crawled URLs and shortcuts to relevant reports.
New in Checkbot for Chrome 1.2.3 (Feb 27, 2019)
- Improved the instructions on the start screen and the dashboard to help new users get started.
New in Checkbot for Chrome 1.2.1 (Feb 22, 2019)
- New:
- Added quarterly paid plans for Checkbot Pro in addition to yearly plans.
- Improved:
- Increased contrast of colours in sidebar (thanks Rhonda!)
- Improved:
- The extension tab now automatically opens on first install.
- Fixed:
- Fixed error that happens if you refresh the tab when the dashboard is showing.
New in Checkbot for Chrome 1.2.0 (Feb 20, 2019)
- New:
- PDF reports: You can now produce a PDF report from the sidebar that gives a breakdown of how the crawled website scored for each category and each best practice. Use these reports to give a quick overview of the health of a site and to keep track of progress.
- Improved:
- The alt attribute text from <img> tags is now considered text content inside <h1> tags.
- Added a sidebar notification that takes you to the release notes when there’s been an update.
- Optimized:
- Crawls now start up faster and when they’re stopped they finish quicker.
New in Checkbot for Chrome 1.0.0 (Aug 26, 2018)
- Improved:
- User agent now identifies as "Checkbot" instead of Chrome's default user agent.
- "Avoid inline CSS" rule renamed to "Avoid excessive inline CSS" for clarity.
- "Avoid inline JavaScript" rule renamed to "Avoid excessive inline JavaScript" for clarity.
- Fixed:
- Fix for malformed email addresses in forms causing errors.
- Fix for "Avoid render-blocking JavaScript" help text: to avoid render-blocking behaviour, "script" tags can be placed before the closing "body" tag, not after (thanks Александр Степанов!).
New in Checkbot for Chrome 0.3.1 Beta (Mar 21, 2018)
- Improved:
- For the "Use HSTS preload" guideline, the `max-age` required has been increased to 1 year to keep up with Chrome's latest requirements.
- Fixed:
- The crawl timer now shows the number of hours elapsed so the timer doesn't look like it's resetting to zero when one hour is reached.
- The "learn more" links to the Checkbot guide should now jump to the right place on the guide page instead of to the top of the page.