The CORE track is the foundation under the other three: it checks that crawlers can fetch your pages, that the responses and headers are sensible and that pages and documents can be parsed. If CORE fails, the other tracks cannot help.
Each category is a group of related checks. Examples show the kind of thing that is tested, not a complete list.
Reachable URLs, sensible status codes and correct rules decide whether a bot can read a page at all.
Fix broken links and redirect chains, return a proper 404 for missing pages and declare canonical URLs.
Protection that is too strict blocks the crawlers you want. Headers tell a bot how fast it may go.
Allow the crawlers you want in your firewall, and send rate-limit headers so bots know how to behave.
Valid markup and clean documents parse faster and more reliably.
Validate your markup, and add a print stylesheet so the page renders cleanly as a document.
Scan a page or a whole site. Every scan runs the four core tracks, and the report lists each failed check with its fix.
Start a scan and open the CORE section of the report to see each check, its result and the fix.
How to start a scan→Straight answers about the CORE checks.
In the report in the app. Each check has its result, severity and fix. The public pages describe what each category covers.
From weighted checks. Every deduction ties to one check and one fix, and the four track scores combine into the overall score. How the score is built.
It makes your site easier to find, read and quote. Benchmarq measures readiness and does not promise rankings, citations or traffic.
Run a scan and see each check, its result and the fix.