v0.0.88

Two rules about the difference between a page that is linked and a page that is supported. A site's navigation links every page from every other page, which makes the whole site look evenly connected when most of it is not: a page whose only inbound links are the ones repeated in the header and footer carries no signal about what it is for or why it matters. The same template logic cuts the other way for the site's own assets, where one shared layout should give every page the same favicon and share image, and a page that disagrees is usually running an older template nobody remembers owning.

The engine is now at 278 rules across 21 categories.

Added

• links/no-contextual-inbound reports pages whose only internal inbound links come from sitewide chrome: the nav, header, footer or sidebar. Those links help discovery, but they are identical on every page, so they say nothing about the page they point at. The fix is a link from the body copy of a related article, hub or category page with anchor text that describes the destination, which is what passes topical relevance. The minimum count is configurable for sites that treat a single contextual link as enough.

• social/asset-divergence reports pages whose favicon, theme-color or fallback share image differs from the rest of the site. These come from one layout, so every page should carry the same three, and the ones that do not are a section that missed a redesign or a second layout still in service. The visible cost is a tab icon that changes as visitors move around and link previews that do not match. Per-page share images on articles and products are correct and are not reported: the comparison is against the fallback the rest of the site shares.

Changed

• Custom request headers are available on every plan. Auditing a staging site behind an auth header is how you check work before it ships, and it was gated behind Pro. It is not any more.

Fixed

• squirrel credits linked to a page that did not exist. The top-up link it printed had never resolved to anything. It now lands on the billing page for your account, and older versions of the CLI that still print the old address are redirected there too.

• Running out of credits during an audit now says what to do about it. The CLI printed a bare warning with no price and nowhere to go. It now reports the balance, what the audit needed, and where to top up or upgrade.

• Reinstalling over a stale squirrel symlink no longer fails. If ~/.local/bin/squirrel pointed at a release that had been cleaned up, the installer refused to replace it. It now does. The install script also no longer dies part way through on systems where sh is dash, which is the default on Debian and Ubuntu.