Production can differ from Preview.
Caches, deployment settings, redirects, environment variables, CDN behavior, and stale builds can change the response after local checks pass.
Check the Public Website, Not Only the Preview.
Find the exact live failure, give Cascade a bounded target, and verify the host after deployment.
Replace speculative SEO prompts with observable evidence.
Open the Audit Workspace
Quick Answer
A Windsurf SEO checker evaluates the public website, not a Cascade conversation or local Preview. Scan the canonical production URL to inspect observable access, response, robots, canonical, sitemap, rendering, content-structure, internal-link, AI-crawler, and machine-readable signals. Confirm the important finding, translate it into one scoped Cascade task, test locally, deploy, and rescan the same URL. The checker cannot guarantee that Google or an AI system will crawl, index, rank, mention, or cite the page.
AI Summary
This action page makes TruboRankAI the production evidence layer around Windsurf. It helps identify and prioritize public website problems before repository work and verify observable signals after deployment. It does not inspect private code automatically, consume Windsurf credits, submit pages to search engines, or replace provider-owned performance data.
One verified issue is enough to start.
Prioritize access and URL dependencies first, then rendering, discovery, content, schema, and optimization.
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Windsurf website diagnostics
What to inspect before assigning the Cascade task
Collect URL-level evidence, define one expected correction, preserve the repository boundary, and compare production with the same criteria after release.
A practical diagnostic order for Windsurf-built websites
Start with anonymous access to the final HTTPS route. Follow redirects, record the response, and confirm that the destination is the intended canonical host. Check robots.txt and page-level robots directives. A login wall, preview domain, redirect loop, server error, or accidental noindex must be solved before content enhancements matter.
Review canonical and sitemap consistency. The live page should expose one intended canonical that agrees with the public route family, while the sitemap should list the preferred absolute URL rather than redirects, duplicates, private routes, or development hosts. Google treats sitemap URLs as canonical suggestions, not indexing guarantees.
Compare initial and rendered content. Google processes JavaScript sites through crawling, rendering, and indexing stages. Check whether the title, description, canonical, H1, primary answer, links, and meaningful page content survive both the server response and browser rendering. Avoid relying on JavaScript to remove an original noindex or replace a conflicting canonical.
Inspect usefulness after eligibility. The page should state what it does, who it helps, how it works, limitations, evidence, and a clear action. Structured data must describe visible content truthfully. A valid FAQ or product schema cannot compensate for an inaccessible, thin, or misleading page.
Review AI-facing signals without overclaiming. A robots rule, llms.txt file, Markdown alternate, Link header, or verified crawler request can be useful evidence, but none proves model training, retrieval, recommendation, citation, referral traffic, or conversion. Track those stages separately.
Translate the strongest finding into Cascade inputs: exact URL, captured behavior, expected behavior, affected public scope, protected areas, likely project entry point, and acceptance checks. Ask Cascade to inspect the connected route and shared systems before changing files, because the public symptom may originate from deployment rather than code.
Control commands and review the diff. Keep state-changing, deployment, database, secret, and destructive actions under explicit approval. Confirm that the fix does not alter private routes or unrelated pages and that every new internal URL resolves correctly.
Use Preview to check local layout, interactions, console errors, and the relevant element. Then deploy normally and repeat the original public scan. Only the production response can confirm the corrected live signal; search and AI outcomes require later platform-specific monitoring.
Frequently asked questions
Does the checker connect to my Windsurf workspace?
No. TruboRankAI checks the public website. You decide which finding and context to provide to Cascade inside your own repository workflow.
Why not scan the Windsurf Preview URL?
Preview is valuable for local testing, but the production URL is the authority for public redirects, caching, host configuration, crawl access, and deployed metadata.
What should Cascade fix first?
Begin with verified access, response, redirect, robots, canonical, rendering, sitemap, or internal-discovery failures before content polish and structured data.