Mega Analyzer Changelog

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Dated history of probe additions, scoring weight changes, and false-positive guards. The check set is versioned so external citations to specific scores stay reproducible.

v2026.06.22 —

Full-control hosts in the platform override

  • Platform override dropdown now lists Cloudflare Pages, Cloudflare Workers, Netlify, and Vercel as selectable static/edge hosts.
  • Because these hosts give full file control, root-file probes (ai.txt, llms.txt, AGENTS.md, security.txt, humans.txt) stay real findings rather than softening to informational.
  • Contrasts with locked builder platforms (Wix, Squarespace tenants, Linktree, etc.) where the same probes correctly downgrade to info.

v2026.06.17 —

Hotel/lodging and B2B-SaaS readiness modules

  • New hotel / lodging readiness module: Hotel/LodgingBusiness typing, check-in/check-out times, star rating, per-room HotelRoom/Offer, and a local-listing sameAs graph check (Google Hotels/Maps, Apple Maps, Yelp, TripAdvisor, OTAs).
  • New B2B SaaS / AI-product readiness module: SoftwareApplication/WebApplication typing, brand entity graph, WebSite node, FAQPage over a visible FAQ, per-route Open Graph, templated-<title> detection, and BreadcrumbList.
  • Each module gates on detected vertical and stands down to professional/commerce verticals to avoid double-flagging.

v2026.06.10 —

Per-site platform + vertical override dropdowns

  • New Audit alignment bar atop results with two dropdowns to correct the detected business vertical and platform. Changing either re-runs the whole audit — score, checks, and AI fix prompts regenerate.
  • Overrides save per site in your browser, so a corrected vertical or stack sticks across re-runs.
  • Platform fingerprint coverage expanded to ~60 stacks, adding headless CMSes (Sanity, Contentful), enterprise CMSes (Drupal, Optimizely), and many vertical-SaaS/local-marketing platforms.
  • Correcting the platform realigns the root-file softeners and [PLATFORM]/[VENDOR-CONTACT-REQUIRED] fix tagging to the real stack.

v2026.06.09 —

Large false-positive-guard wave (publishers, apps, testimonials)

  • Publisher / aggregator / app guard: sites typed NewsMediaOrganization, WebApplication, SoftwareApplication, Dataset, or Periodical (with no business-vertical schema) no longer get keyword-misclassified into YMYL, Local, or E-commerce.
  • Editorial pull-quotes and prose-shape voice metrics on publisher/app pages downgrade to informational; only density checks still fail.
  • @graph double-walk fixed across JSON-LD walkers — nodes inside one @graph are no longer counted twice (was inflating duplicate-node and date-field counts).
  • Self-quote testimonials exempted: a <blockquote> whose <cite> matches a Person/Org named in the page's own JSON-LD no longer counts as a customer review.
  • Outbound-marketplace stores (CTAs routing to a third-party marketplace, no on-site checkout) stop tripping agentic-commerce checks; appointment-only businesses can satisfy the hours check with a literal "by appointment" statement.
  • ImageObject licensing fields, Product/Offer suggestions, and review checks on publisher/app contexts downgrade to info per current Search Console guidance.

v2026.06.03 —

Craft-butcher / meat-DTC module + ACP feed validator

  • New craft-butcher / meat-DTC readiness layer atop e-commerce: hybrid GroceryStore/LocalBusiness typing, perishable cold-chain OfferShippingDetails, Recipe schema, provenance/countryOfOrigin, per-lb UnitPriceSpecification, and substantiation for USDA / grade / "Product of USA" claims.
  • New companion tool: ACP feed validator — checks a product feed against the Agentic Commerce spec (required fields, ISO-4217/ISO-3166 enums, conditional seller ToS + privacy on checkout, GTIN check-digit, NDJSON shape).
  • Regulated-claim regexes (superlatives, reviews, guarantees, provenance) now match a bounded title-plus-lead region instead of the whole page, so nav/footer/related-product carousels stop misattributing findings.
  • Wired Learn/Fix/Audit pills onto the CPA and defense-contractor cards (blocks existed without them).

v2026.06.02 —

Trade-company entity-typing fixes + HVAC module

  • Trade-company person-typing fixed: company types like HVACBusiness, GeneralContractor, Plumber, Electrician, and RoofingContractor are no longer nagged to dual-type as Person or carry worksFor — they're companies with a separately-named owner.
  • New HVAC / heating-and-cooling readiness module: HVACBusiness typing, EPA 608 / NATE / state-license trifecta, heat-pump growth nudge, permit / CO-safety, brands & maintenance-plan / financing signals.
  • Disabled a sitemap sub-check that fired "no usable XML sitemap" on trade home pages; sitemap coverage already lives in the crawl-health checks.
  • Breadcrumb check now exempts the site root; first-party relative scripts are no longer flagged as SRI-eligible (SRI is cross-origin only).

v2026.06.01 —

Electrician and men's-health readiness modules

  • New electrician / electrical-contractor readiness module: Electrician subtype, the http://www.schema.org @context defect, visible state-license-number display, per-service Service, EV-charger growth nudge, and permit/NEC compliance signal.
  • New men's-health / hormone-clinic readiness module (YMYL-Health): MedicalClinic typing, per-location identity, and E-E-A-T plus Ryan Haight / FDA / FTC / HIPAA compliance signals.
  • Both gate on detected vertical and stand down cleanly to adjacent local/professional verticals.

v2026.05.31 —

E-commerce, handyman, and brand-presence modules

  • New e-commerce / DTC readiness module: Product/Offer completeness (condition, priceValidUntil, GTIN/MPN/SKU, shipping, return policy, countryOfOrigin when "Made in X" appears), brand Organization @id + founder, review-as-data (FTC 16 CFR 465), CollectionPage/ItemList, and deceptive-pricing guards.
  • New handyman / home-services readiness module: LocalBusiness/HomeAndConstructionBusiness + NAP, per-trade Service, Google Business Profile probe, placeholder-555 phone trap, client-rendered-SPA invisibility trap, and a state-licensed-trade guardrail.
  • New brand presence / entity alignment check: sameAs breadth across Instagram, Pinterest, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Google Business Profile.

v2026.05.30 —

Production-homebuilder module + BigLaw layer

  • New production-homebuilder readiness module: firm HomeAndConstructionBusiness, per-community Place/areaServed/geo, SingleFamilyResidence + Offer (price/availability) on floor plans, plus Fair Housing 3604(c), RESPA Section 8, and TILA/Reg Z 1026.24 compliance checks.
  • New BigLaw / multinational-firm layer extending the legal module: ranking-directory sameAs (Chambers, Legal 500, Best Lawyers), corpus-scale Article + author binding, Event/VideoObject/PodcastEpisode on relevant paths, and hreflang-vs-office-footprint checks.
  • The BigLaw layer activates only for large/multinational firms; small-firm legal audits are unaffected.

v2026.05.21 —

Brand-copy quality and page-meta hygiene checks

  • New brand-copy checks: font-glyph-collision typos (e.g. capital-I vs lowercase-L), dev placeholders left in production (lorem ipsum, TBD, "coming soon"), joined-word headlines, and all-caps headings that should be CSS-uppercased.
  • New page-meta checks: over-long meta descriptions (Google rewrites past ~170 chars), missing og:image, and twitter:card downgrade detection.
  • New nonprofit checks (501(c)(3) sites): visible EIN and a stated 501(c)(3) status line for donor and grant-officer diligence.
  • New operational-hygiene checks: thank-you / confirmation funnel pages indexed without noindex, and thin pages missing noindex.

v2026.05.20 —

Platform fingerprinting, bot-challenge detection, and sitemap-debris checks

  • New bot-challenge detector: flags when the audited page is actually a Vercel / Cloudflare / AWS WAF / Imperva / Akamai challenge wall — the same wall AI crawlers hit — instead of reporting every signal as missing.
  • robots.txt platform fingerprint fallback catches managed platforms even when no CDN URL is visible in the HTML, so root-file advice gates correctly.
  • New sitemap-debris checks: indexed placeholder slugs (hello-world, sample-page, templated blog titles), republished-draft random-suffix URLs, and duplicate home-page aliases (/home, /home-2) competing with /.
  • New photographer-vertical image-rights check: recommends ImageObject/Photograph schema when none is present.

v2026.05.17 —

Cross-page reference "missing name" detector

  • New detector for JSON-LD cross-page @id references that carry @type but no name — the next Search Console error after the "Invalid object type" fix.
  • Covers mainEntity, about, author, publisher, isPartOf, and mainEntityOfPage reference fields; same-page refs stay bare and pass.
  • Fix copy instructs adding name alongside @id + @type on each cross-page reference.

v2026.05.16 —

Search Console "invalid object type" and "invalid datetime" detectors

  • New detector for bare {"@id":"..."} reference objects with no inline @type and no on-page definition — the trigger for Search Console's "Invalid object type" rich-result error that public validators pass silently.
  • New detector for date-only dateCreated/dateModified/datePublished values (YYYY-MM-DD), the "Invalid datetime value" trigger; fix copy shows full ISO 8601 with timezone offset.
  • Both become top-priority entity-binding penalties with explicit GSC TYPE / GSC DATE labels.

v2026.05.13 —

Knowledge-Graph entity-anchor reconciliation

  • New entity-anchors section: scores binding to Google's Knowledge Graph via sameAs kgmid, Google Maps cid, Google Business Profile, LinkedIn, and Wikidata — distinct from just adding more schema.
  • Checks Person/Org dual-typing on vertical nodes, shared-@id consolidation, worksFor/parentOrganization employer relations, and flags circular self-referential sameAs.
  • New mainEntityOfPage object-form check enforces a closed bidirectional Person ↔ ProfilePage loop, plus a guard for HTML-encoded &amp; in sameAs URLs (a templating autoescape bug).

v2026.05.12 —

Vertical classification overhaul + self-host and mobile checks

  • Vertical classifier rebuilt around ~120 schema.org LocalBusiness subtypes plus dozens of keyword verticals (restaurant, trades, fitness, beauty, auto, nonprofit, industrial, religious, education, senior-care, and more) so businesses without explicit schema still classify correctly.
  • YMYL gating tightened: Legal/Finance/Health now require the regulated schema or ≥5 keyword hits, so editorial blog mentions no longer mislabel a site as YMYL.
  • Trust, voice-density, and editorial-only checks (dateModified, RSS, llms-full, etc.) downgrade to informational on local-service and publisher contexts that shouldn't be held to them.
  • New self-host opportunity check (third-party CDN fonts/scripts that could move on-site) and a mobile auto-scaling check (zoom-blocking viewport, fixed widths, unwrapped wide tables) with drop-in CSS.
  • Sitemap discovery now falls back through Yoast / WP-core / index variants and parses Sitemap: directives from robots.txt; apex↔www are treated as the same site.

v2026.05 —

  • Added SoftwareApplication, HowTo, and FAQPage JSON-LD to the tool page itself. Author byline and visible last-updated stamp moved into the page hero. (Eat-your-own-dog-food for the E-E-A-T bucket.)
  • Published this /methodology/ page and changelog. Linked from the tool hero.
  • Bucket count documented as 10 in /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json, /.well-known/agent-card, and /llms-full.txt (previously documented as 6).

v2026.05.10 —

Nine SHIP-NOW signal additions from the Cloudflare Agents v2 research pass:

  • AGENTS.md probe at /AGENTS.md (per agents.md).
  • /.well-known/mcp.json (Cloudflare path), probed in parallel with the SEP-2127 /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json. Dual-publish gap is flagged when only one of the two is present.
  • x402 v2 advertisement via Link: rel="payment-required" response header or Accept-Payment: x402. Gated to commerce / dev surfaces.
  • OAuth Resource Server Link: rel="oauth-protected-resource" header on 401 responses. Gated on presence of an OAuth Protected Resource metadata file.
  • Vary: Accept on the markdown response — confirms server actually negotiates text/markdown.
  • Per-page .md companion + /index.md root marker. Warn on /blog, /posts, /articles, /docs, /news.
  • /llms-ctx.txt + /llms-ctx-full.txt (FastHTML llmstxt.org extension).
  • JSON Feed v1.1 enrichment fields in /feed.json: language, authors[], feed_url.
  • schema:CreativeWork.usageInfo URL — Schema.org canonical AI-rights pointer.

v2026.04.17 — Cloudflare Agent Readiness baseline

Initial 13-probe Cloudflare Agent Readiness coverage:

  • Content-Signal directive in robots.txt.
  • Link response headers (RFC 8288).
  • API Catalog at /.well-known/api-catalog (RFC 9727).
  • MCP Server Card at /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json (SEP-2127). Gated on _isAgentTarget.
  • Agent Skills at /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json (v0.2.0).
  • Web Bot Auth signature directory (informational; never penalized).
  • OAuth metadata + OAuth Protected Resource. Gated on _isAgentTarget.
  • WebMCP imperative API. Gated on _hasAgentCta.
  • ACP discovery + MPP openapi.json. Gated on _isCommerceSurface.

v2026.04 — Foundation

  • SEO, Schema, E-E-A-T, Voice, Mobile parity, Performance, A11y, Indexing hygiene, Retrieval (AEO) buckets shipped.
  • Mega AI fix prompt output bucket.
  • Mark It N/A feature: excludes a check from both the score and the AI prompt.
  • Export / Import scan JSON: save the full scan, re-run the prompt without re-fetching, diff against past scans.
  • JSON-LD walker fix: recurses into all object values (not only @graph) so Review and AggregateRating nested inside Product.review / OfferCatalog are detected.
  • Physical-goods gate: shippingDetails / hasMerchantReturnPolicy only flagged on Products with gtin/mpn/isbn/productID/itemCondition, or when the root schema is not Service / LocalBusiness / SelfStorage / OfferCatalog family.

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