No malware found
In code review (v1.4.1)
Our reviewer read version 1.4.1 — the most recent version we have reviewed — and found no malicious behaviour. The version shown here has not been individually reviewed yet.
367 indicators in this extension
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What our analysis found
Checkbot: SEO, Web Speed & Security Tester 🚀, used by 70,000 people, showed no malicious code in Extension Auditor's review. Its permissions mean it can observe network requests. It comes from a trusted publisher and was last updated in January 2025.
Analyst notes
Background script performs simple navigation and message passing, no webRequest listeners implemented despite broad permissions (typical for SEO auditing tools). High CWS rating (4.9), 70k users, featured listing, and publisher trust strongly contradict ML risk signals. Manifest version mismatch between bundle (MV2) and published listing (MV3) is a non-malicious hygiene issue. not reviewed but overall behavior aligns with described developer tool functionality; no exfiltration or code injection found.
Checkbot: SEO, Web Speed & Security Tester 🚀 Chrome extension security report
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Extension Info & Metadata
Publisher Contextual Analysis
- Author
- checkbot.io
- Privacy
- Privacy Policy
- Help
- Help Center
- MX records exist
- Yes
- Domain exists
- Yes
- Is disposable
- No
- Is role-based
- Yes
- Mailbox exists
- Yes
- Website
- Visit
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Install growth
367 indicators in this extension
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About this extension
Test SEO/speed/security of 100s of pages in a click! Check broken links, HTML/JavaScript/CSS, URL redirects, duplicate titles...
Read the publisher’s full description
Checkbot is a powerful website testing tool that tells you how to improve the SEO, page speed and security of your website. Checkbot crawls 100s of pages at the same time checking for 50+ common website problems based on web best practices recommended by Google and Mozilla. These checks include: 📊 SEO TESTS: Broken link checker, missing or long page titles/descriptions/headings, duplicate page content, HTML/CSS/JavaScript validator, canonical URLs, image ALT tags, robots.txt, URL naming, mobile friendly pages, deprecated web features, 404 pages, meta tags, temporary/meta redirects, thin pages & sitemap setup. 🚀 PAGE SPEED TESTS: Minification, network compression, resource caching, render blocking or duplicate CSS/JavaScript, excessive inlining of CSS/JavaScript, redirecting URLs & redirect chains. 🔒 WEB SECURITY TESTS: Security headers, HTTPS and mixed content checker, HSTS with preloading, content sniffing, iframe restrictions & password forms security. See https://www.checkbot.io/guide/ for the 50+ web best practices Checkbot will test for you to help make your site faster, more secure and rank higher in search results. ★ REVIEWS ★ 🏆 HubSpot, Best Chrome Extensions 2021 - "Checkbot combines technical SEO with modern security to help you analyze both how safe and how optimized a website is for search engines" https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/best-chrome-extensions 🏆 Enleaf, Andy Drinkwater: "I honestly believe every SEO should have this in their SEO toolbox" https://enleaf.com/blog/free-seo-tools/ 🏆 Einstein Marketer, "11 Must-Have Google Chrome Extensions (for Marketers, Entrepreneurs and Businesses)...If you own a website, this Chrome extension is going to help you supercharge your load speed, rank higher in Google and improve the security" https://www.einsteinmarketer.com/chrome-extensions-marketers/ 🏆 Product Hunt, #3 Product of the Day award https://www.producthunt.com/posts/checkbot-for-chrome ★ PAID FEATURES ★ The free version lets you check unlimited small websites as often as you want but you need to upgrade to run website audits with these features: - Check localhost sites - PDF audit reports - Export crawl results to CSV - Advanced crawl settings to exclude pages by URL pattern, type, folder and subdomain - Crawling websites behind HTTP Auth passwords See https://www.checkbot.io/#pricing for more. ★ SOCIAL ★ Follow Checkbot for updates: https://twitter.com/GetCheckbot https://facebook.com/GetCheckbot https://www.checkbot.io/newsletter/ ★ SUPPORT ★ Visit https://www.checkbot.io/faq/ for support, answers to frequently asked questions and to give feedback. ★ PERMISSIONS ★ Checkbot will ask for the "Read and change all your data..." permission for the sole purpose of crawling and testing the websites you ask Checkbot to check. This is currently the most restrictive permission we can ask for that allows this and Google has also reviewed this extension to check it follows best practices on requesting permissions. Your regular browsing will be unaffected: Checkbot does not observe or modify anything outside of the Checkbot tab. If you still have concerns, you can opt to create a new Chrome user profile to install Checkbot inside of to isolate it from your regular browsing.
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