Web Recon Tool

The web recon tool analyzes a target domain to deliver a structured domain profile capturing SEO signals, technology footprint, performance indicators, and basic security posture using public data. It serves SEO analysts, web auditors, digital marketers, risk managers, and competitive intelligence teams seeking a rapid, data-driven domain assessment to guide optimizations, audits, and strategic decisions. Assumptions: data is collected passively from public sources and is non-intrusive.
Core Logic & Features: Required: domain input, subdomain scope flag, crawl depth, and data source selection. Optional/advanced: historical comparisons, competitor domain analysis, and export options. Capabilities include DNS and TLS health checks, HTTP header and metadata validation, canonicalization and hreflang checks, robots.txt and sitemap discovery, tech-stack fingerprinting, page count and content signals, internal/external link patterns, and lightweight performance proxies. Outputs are a machine-readable domain report plus human-ready summaries. Data sources are public DNS, certificate transparency data, HTTP responses, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and public data aggregators. Calculation rules use a hybrid scoring model: SEO signals (40%), Security signals (30%), Performance signals (20%), and Compliance signals (10%). Each indicator is normalized to 0–1 before weighting; a composite risk_score and an opportunity_score are produced.
Error handling and data gaps are clearly surfaced with guidance to mitigate.
Industry standards and localization considerations ensure UTC timing, IDN support, and language-agnostic results with translation options for global teams.
Assumptions & Exclusions: data is publicly accessible and non-intrusive; authenticated sources and active scanning are out of scope.