Had a great surprise this morning: yesterday’s deploy broke my SEO. 😅
And yes, I mean great.
I built
@37audits to catch exactly this kind of problem, so dogfooding my own tool — and having it catch a real issue I introduced myself — is a pretty good validation of the need.
Here’s what happened:
Yesterday, I updated the website copy to better explain our new monitoring feature. After finishing the copy, I committed, pushed, and called it a day.
This morning, I opened
37audits.com/live-monitoring and… it was broken. 😬
The nice part? 37 Audits had marked the deployment on the audit history. The audit immediately before the deploy was healthy; the one after it showed the SEO issue.
So it was SUPER easy to see exactly when the problem appeared and connect it to the deployment.
Nothing like your own deploy breaking your site to prove why you’re building the tool. 😂
ALT Audit marked before the deploy that introduced the SEO issue.
ALT Audit marked before the deploy that fixed the SEO issue.