Temper reads your live website the way customers, search engines and attackers do — then tells you, in plain English, what to fix first.
Live intelligence
Local bakery · WordPress
Informed by respected technical standards
Free website scan
Give Temper an address. In a few seconds it reads the live page, probes the files around it and scores six dimensions of health. Then a real-Chrome audit adds speed and accessibility data from Google Lighthouse.
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How Temper works
Plugin updates, campaign launches, new pages, a developer’s Friday fix. Most of the time nothing breaks. Then one day a noindex ships to production, the checkout button slips below the fold or a certificate quietly expires. Temper is the controlled cooling: it watches the live site, catches stress early and tells you exactly what to do about it.
Heat
Releases, plugin updates, new content and third-party tags change your site every week — usually without anyone checking the whole picture.
Inspect
100+ checks across delivery, security, search, accessibility, performance and experience, plus a real-Chrome audit.
Quench
Findings are ranked by impact and effort, with observed evidence, actionable guidance and a way to verify the result.
Temper
Rescan to watch the score move. Monitoring keeps watch between releases so problems are caught while they’re small.
Temper Website Intelligence is a Protoyype from the Foundry at WebFoundry Labs.
What the free scan reads
Temper looks at the whole experience — how the page arrives, how safe it is, how it’s found, who can use it, how fast it’s built to be and how it looks when shared.
Delivery
Status, first-byte time, redirect chains, HTTPS upgrades, 404 handling and caching.
Security
Plus mixed content, cookie flags, version leaks and security.txt.
Search
Nnorthstar-bakery.co.uk
Northstar Bakery | Home
No description. Google improvises a snippet from whatever text it finds first…
Indexing, titles, descriptions, canonicals, sitemaps and structured data.
Accessibility
4of 7 images described
Language, alt text, link and button names, form labels, headings, zoom and landmarks.
Performance
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0.6s
1.2s
2.1s
3.3s
4.5sBlocking scripts, image weight and format, layout shift risks and third-party tags — then real Lighthouse timings.
Experience
Mobile viewport, broken links, favicons, share previews, freshness and markup hygiene.
AI visibility
Read from your robots.txt, alongside llms.txt and structured data. Shown, never scored — it’s your call.
The Temper score
Six dimensions, weighted by how much they matter to a real business, with the evidence for every point one click away.
Hard caps keep the score honest: a page that errors can’t score above 35, and a page without HTTPS can’t score above 64.
Fix first: Newsletter field has no label · Strict Transport Security is missing · No meta description for search results
65723 fixes · about 45 minutes
In the forge
The free scan is the first layer. Here’s what we’re building on top of it — shown openly, labelled honestly.
Temper will remember how your key pages should look, then flag meaningful changes across releases, devices and breakpoints — not every pixel of noise.
Give every site you look after the same attention without turning your team into a 24-hour monitoring desk — and show clients exactly what their care plan protects.
Get the alerts that matter, see the evidence and approve a fix from wherever you are.
Building in public
No vapourware dressed up as features. Everything under “Live now” works on this page — try it.
Proposed launch pricing · early access
Start free and stay free. The planned paid tiers bundle site monitoring, deeper SEO intelligence and clear usage allowances at a fraction of traditional audit-suite pricing.
Make your first fix count.
£0 forever
1 site · manual scans
Protect the websites that matter.
£5 / month
3 sites
Find the SEO leaks as you grow.
£15 / month
15 sites
Run a serious portfolio for less.
£39 / month
50 sites, fair-use limits apply
Pricing is a proposed introductory offer, not a live subscription. Paid features, crawl quotas and scheduled monitoring remain on the roadmap. GBP per month, excluding VAT. Annual figures shown as monthly equivalents with annual billing. Chrome and crawl allowances are pooled per account.
Questions
Anything else? Run a scan — the report explains every check it makes.
It requests the page’s public HTML without rendering JavaScript, follows redirects, reads the HTML and response headers, then probes robots.txt, your sitemap, the http:// version of your site, a made-up URL (to test 404 handling) and a sample of internal links. That’s 100+ checks across six dimensions. A second, real-Chrome pass runs Google Lighthouse for speed and accessibility data.
No. Lighthouse measures one rendered page load. Temper adds what Lighthouse doesn’t look at — security headers, cookies, redirects, HTTPS upgrades, 404 handling, robots and sitemap health, broken links, AI-crawler access, share previews and site freshness — and turns everything into one prioritised plan.
Fast-scan results are returned to your browser and kept there (in local storage) so you can compare later. We don’t keep them on our servers. The rendered audit is run through Google’s PageSpeed Insights API. Clear your browser storage and the history is gone.
No. A scan makes around twenty lightweight requests — fewer than a single visitor loading your homepage. Temper only requests public pages and never submits forms.
TemperBot is the name our scanner uses when it visits a site (its user agent contains “TemperBot/2.1”). If your firewall blocks unknown bots, you may need to allow it for scans to work.
Every tool weighs things differently. Temper’s score blends six dimensions with published weights and hard caps — a page that errors can’t score above 35 and a page without HTTPS can’t score above 64 — so the number reflects real-world risk rather than one metric.
Monitoring, multi-page SEO crawling, Search Console connectivity, and all paid plans are proposed capabilities, not active subscriptions. We are testing them first on our own sites. The pricing shown is intended introductory launch pricing and may change before checkout goes live.
No. The free scan audits observable page source, response headers, a handful of discovery endpoints and sampled links. The WFL SEO Standard diagnoses technical signals, not search rankings, actual index status, or search traffic. Those need a deeper crawl and Search Console evidence.
Free. No account. Results in seconds.
