PreflightSEO
SEO migration quality assurance

Every SEO regression, caught
before launch.

PreflightSEO crawls your old and new environments side by side, compares every URL, and reports every discrepancy before your client ever notices.

acme.com → staging.acme.com · Migration Report4,847 URLs · 18 min
3 Blockers
12 High
47 Medium
4,785 clean
MISSING_ON_NEW
/blog/best-practices-2023 → 404
Blocker
CANONICAL_CHANGED
/products/widget-pro → canonical mismatch
High
TITLE_CHANGED
/about → "About Us" became "About"
Medium
The problem

Migrations fail quietly — and
by the time you know, it's too late.

A template change noindexes your entire blog. Canonical tags drift in a platform migration. Redirects point to the wrong targets. Google discovers it over weeks. Your traffic report discovers it three months later.

01
You can't check manually

A 10,000-page site has 10,000 failure points. Spot-checking a dozen URLs before launch is optimism, not QA.

02
Damage compounds slowly

Search engines discover errors over weeks. By the time traffic drops appear in GSC, the window to fix the migration cleanly has closed.

03
Nothing compares both sides

Broken link checkers only see the new site. Only PreflightSEO crawls both environments and compares them field by field.

04
The cost is real

One missed noindex on a staging template once went live and triggered a 40% traffic drop for a client. PreflightSEO was built because of moments like that.

How it works

Three steps.
Absolute clarity.

Connect your environments, run the check, act on the report. There is nothing else.

1
Configure your environments

Enter your current and new base URLs. Upload an optional CSV redirect map for precision validation. Set crawl depth and page limits for your project.

2
We crawl and compare

PreflightSEO crawls both environments at a polite 1–2 req/sec, normalizes URLs, follows redirects, and compares each page's status, title, H1, canonicals, and meta robots.

3
Act on your report

Download a prioritized CSV or JSON report. Blockers first — the pages that will vanish from search. Then High, Medium. Fix everything before launch day.

Issue coverage

Eleven issue types.
Every failure mode covered.

MISSING_ON_NEW
Old URL returns 200; new returns 404 or 410.
BLOCKER
NEW_RETURNS_ERROR
New URL returns 5xx or times out.
BLOCKER
REDIRECT_LOOP
Infinite redirect chain detected.
BLOCKER
REDIRECT_TO_WRONG_TARGET
Redirect resolves to an unexpected URL.
HIGH
CANONICAL_CHANGED
Canonical URL differs between old and new.
HIGH
CANONICAL_MISSING
Canonical tag absent on the new environment.
HIGH
UNEXPECTED_NOINDEX
New site has noindex where old site did not.
HIGH
ROBOTS_BLOCKED
URL blocked by robots.txt on the new environment.
HIGH
REDIRECT_CHAIN
More than one redirect hop found.
MEDIUM
TITLE_CHANGED
Page title tag differs between environments.
MEDIUM
H1_CHANGED
H1 heading text differs between environments.
MEDIUM
Pricing

Simple, honest pricing

Start free. Scale as your projects grow.

Free
Free
Forever free

  • 500 URLs/run
  • 1 project
  • 3 runs/month
Start free
Starter
29
per month

  • 5,000 URLs/run
  • 5 projects
  • Unlimited runs
  • Email alerts on run complete + BLOCKERs
Get started
Most popular
Pro
79
per month

  • 25,000 URLs/run
  • Unlimited projects
  • Unlimited runs
  • Scheduled runsComing soon
  • API accessComing soon
Get started
Agency
149
per month

  • 100,000 URLs/run
  • Unlimited projects
  • Unlimited runs
  • White-label CSVComing soon
  • Priority support
Get started
FAQ

Common questions

Run your first check
before anything goes live.

Free tier. No credit card required. Results in minutes.

Start free