Website proofreading guides
Practical guides for finding and fixing copy errors on a live website, and free tools that read one.
Guides and free tools
- How to find leftover placeholder text on your live website Lorem ipsum, "your text here", and theme defaults that ship by accident — what counts, why it happens, and how to find every instance across a whole site.
- Pre-launch website proofreading checklist The copy pass to run before a site goes live — scoped to what a proofread actually catches, with the non-copy checks flagged to run separately.
- How to proofread a JavaScript-rendered (SPA) website On a React, Vue, or Svelte app the copy is built by JavaScript after load, so static checkers miss it — how to proofread the rendered page instead.
- Proofreading vs. Grammarly for a live website Grammarly checks the draft you are writing; proofreading a live site checks the copy already published — different stage, different surface, and when you need each.
- The most common website copy errors (and how to catch them) The recurring copy mistakes that reach live sites, organized by the six kinds — typos and homophones, grammar, punctuation, clarity, style, and placeholder — with examples of each.
- Website spell checker Check a published page for misspellings and leftover placeholder copy, with every fix quoted.
- Sitemap checker Read robots.txt and the XML sitemap the way a crawler does, and list the pages.
- Open Graph checker See the share card a page makes, and check the Open Graph tags behind it.
- Page counter Count the pages a sitemap lists, and see the largest sections.
- Meta tag checker Read a page’s title, meta description, canonical, and robots tags, with a checklist.
- Favicon checker Check every icon a page declares, /favicon.ico, and the sizes browsers and Google use.
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