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Introducing Glimpse: One-Click Site Auditing for Modern Developers

by Ashish Sontakke

Website auditing shouldn't be a chore. Yet, here we are—juggling multiple tools, checking pages one by one, and still missing critical issues. That's why we built Glimpse: a unified platform that audits your entire site in minutes, not hours.

The Problem We're Solving

If you've ever tried to audit a website, you know the drill:

  1. PageSpeed Insights for performance (one URL at a time)
  2. Social share preview tools (one URL at a time)
  3. Manual meta tag checks (copy-paste, rinse, repeat)
  4. Separate robots.txt and sitemap.xml verification

This fragmented workflow is slow, error-prone, and doesn't scale. You end up checking a handful of pages and hoping the rest are fine. But what if you could audit your entire site—every page—in a single click?

What Glimpse Does

Glimpse is a browser-based site audit tool that gives you comprehensive insights across your entire domain. Here's how it works:

1. Automatic Discovery

Enter your domain, and Glimpse automatically:

  • Fetches and parses robots.txt
  • Discovers all sitemaps (including nested sitemap indexes)
  • Extracts URLs from sitemaps
  • Respects robots.txt directives

No manual configuration needed. Glimpse finds your pages for you.

2. Smart Pre-Scan Analysis

Before crawling, Glimpse shows you:

  • Total URLs discovered from sitemaps
  • Sitemap count and structure
  • robots.txt status and directives
  • Scan coverage percentage

You can configure:

  • Max pages to scan (default: 50, up to 200)
  • Ignore patterns (wildcard support: /admin/*, /api/*)

This gives you full control before the scan starts.

3. Comprehensive Page Analysis

For each page, Glimpse extracts:

SEO Metadata:

  • Page title and meta description
  • Canonical URLs
  • Robots directives
  • Viewport and charset settings
  • Keywords and language tags

Social Media Tags:

  • Open Graph tags (og:title, og:description, og:image, etc.)
  • Twitter Card metadata
  • Social share previews

Content Structure:

  • H1 and H2 headings
  • Internal and external links
  • Word count
  • Response time

Technical Details:

  • HTTP status codes
  • Error detection
  • Link validation

4. Real-Time Progress

Watch your audit happen in real-time:

  • Live progress bar
  • Page-by-page status updates
  • Success/error counts
  • Currently scanning indicator

5. Detailed Page Views

Click any page in the sidebar to see:

  • Complete metadata breakdown
  • Social preview cards (how it looks when shared)
  • Link analysis (internal vs external)
  • Content structure
  • Any errors or warnings

Why We Built This

As developers, we were tired of:

  • Context switching between multiple tools
  • Manual work that should be automated
  • Incomplete audits because checking every page manually is impractical
  • Missing issues that only show up when pages are shared or crawled

Glimpse solves all of this by bringing everything into one place.

Current Features (MVP)

What's Working Now:

  • ✅ Automatic robots.txt and sitemap discovery
  • ✅ Multi-page crawling (up to 200 pages)
  • ✅ SEO metadata extraction
  • ✅ Open Graph and Twitter Card parsing
  • ✅ Social share previews
  • ✅ Link analysis (internal/external)
  • ✅ Heading structure extraction
  • ✅ Configurable scan limits and ignore patterns
  • ✅ Real-time progress tracking
  • ✅ Client-side storage (localStorage)

What's Coming Next:

  • 🔜 Server-side persistence and audit history
  • 🔜 Scheduled audits and automated reports
  • 🔜 Export to CSV/PDF
  • 🔜 Performance metrics (Core Web Vitals)
  • 🔜 Accessibility checks
  • 🔜 Broken link detection
  • 🔜 Comparison between audits

How to Use Glimpse

  1. Enter your domain on the homepage
  2. Review the pre-scan (adjust settings if needed)
  3. Start the audit and watch it crawl your pages
  4. Explore results by clicking pages in the sidebar
  5. Fix issues based on the detailed insights

It's that simple. No signup required (for now), no API keys, no configuration files.

Privacy & Data

Glimpse runs entirely in your browser. Audit data is stored locally in your browser's localStorage. We don't track you, we don't store your data on our servers, and we don't sell anything.

This is a free tool built for developers, by developers.

Built With Modern Tech

  • Next.js 16 (App Router) for fast, serverless functions
  • Tailwind CSS + Shadcn UI for a beautiful, accessible interface
  • TypeScript for type safety
  • Client-side processing for privacy

Try It Now

Ready to audit your site? Head to get-glimpse.com and enter your domain. No signup, no credit card, no hassle.

What's Next?

We're just getting started. Here's what we're planning:

  • Smart crawling that detects URL patterns and samples templates (audit 20 pages instead of 500)
  • Audit history to track changes over time
  • Scheduled audits with email reports
  • Team collaboration for agencies and larger teams
  • API access for programmatic audits

Want to stay updated? Follow us on Twitter or check out our GitHub.

Glimpse — Your site, perfected in minutes.

Questions or feedback? Reach out at ashish.so@redon.ai