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Canonical Checker

7-Point Canonical Audit

Detect canonical loops, broken targets, cross-domain canonicals, multiple tags, and conflicting signals — all in one check.

📁 Declared Canonical🔁 Self-Referencing☠️ Canonical → 404🔄 Canonical Loop🌍 Cross-Domain Canonical📋 Multiple Canonicals⚡ HTTP vs Meta Conflict
💡 Fetches the page, canonical target, HTTP headers, and robots.txt signals.

Canonical Chaos: The 7 Issues This Tool Catches

Declared Canonical

Finds whether the page has a canonical URL in the HTML or HTTP header.

Self-Referencing

Checks whether the canonical correctly points to the current page.

Canonical → 404

Tests whether the canonical target is accessible or broken.

Canonical Loop

Detects when the canonical target points back in a problematic loop.

Cross-Domain Canonical

Flags canonicals that point to another domain for review.

Multiple Canonicals

Finds duplicate canonical tags or mixed header/meta canonicals.

HTTP vs Meta Conflict

Compares canonical signals from HTML and response headers.