Page Comparison Overview
The Page Comparison feature allows for content from URLs or HTML to be quickly and easily compared to each other.
Page Comparison Use Cases
- Compare the on-page content of desktop and mobile.
- Compare the changes in a test environment to the already-live content.
- Compare your product page to your category page to confirm that there’s an equal amount of SEO optimizations on each page template.
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Background & Requirements
Two URLs or two HTML content pieces need to be input for results of the comparison analysis to be displayed. The comparison is run on an ad-hoc basis.
Page Comparison
Input Selections
Compare Page: Select either Enter URL or Upload HTML
Enter URL: Insert a fully qualified URL to be compared against.
Upload HTML: Upload an HTML file to be compared against.
User Agent: Input a specific user agent to be used when crawling the content. By default the seoClarity bot information is used.
On-Page Element Analysis
A comparison of on-page elements will be displayed with red strikethroughs to indicate content not present and green highlights to indicate additional content that is present. If an element was not found at the time of crawling, then a dash is displayed.
On-Page Element table
Title: Displays the meta title content found at the time of crawling.
Meta Description: Displays the meta description content found at the time of crawling.
H1: Displays the H1 header content found at the time of crawling.
H2: Displays the H2 header content found at the time of crawling.
Canonical: Displays the canonical URL found at the time of crawling.
Robots meta tag: Displays the robots directive found at the time of crawling.
Viewport: Displays the viewport width and scale found at the time of crawling.
Rel Alternate Media tag: Displays the link rel='"alternate" values found at the time of crawling.
HREFLang tag: Displays the HREFlang values found at the time of crawling.
AMPHTML link: Displays the link rel="amphtml" found at the time of crawling.
Content Length: Displays the count of characters found at the time of crawling.
Count of words: Displays the word count found at the time of crawling.
Count of resources found: Displays the count of JS and CSS resources found at the time of crawling.
List of resources: Displays the list of JS and CSS resources found found at the time of crawling.
Download time: Displays the total download time (in seconds) found at the time of crawling.
Count of internal links: Displays the count of internal links found at the time of crawling.
List of internal links: Displays the list of internal links found at the time of crawling.
On-Page Issues Analysis
Any on-page issues found when crawling will be displayed here.
On-Page Issues table
Meta keyword tag found: Displays the meta name="keywords" found at the time of crawling.
Hyperlink has both href and onclick attribute: Displays the href and onclick attribute found for the same link at the time of crawling.
Hreflang Not Present: Displays if there are no HREFlang values found at the time of crawling.
Heading tag empty: Displays if a heading tag has no content found within it at the time of crawling.
Hyperlink(s) are using relative reference: Displays when relative URL links are found at the time of crawling.
More than 100 hyperlinks found: Displays if there are more than 100 links found at the time of crawling.