Are you that type of person whose browser bar is occupied by 36 active extension at a time?

Well, I’ve been there.

But I found out that more or less, these extensions do the same work.

So I narrowed it down to the best SEO extentions that do the hard work, consume as little memory and have simple UI.

Let’s go.

• Robots Exclusion Checker – This is by far my favorite. Hats off to the developer, Sam Gipson. It shows you the robots.txt status, Indexation, and Canonical on a quick overview. The nifty little icon also shows if a page load happened via JS, has a different canonical (icon turns orange) the page is noindex (icon turns red) or was blocked in robots.txt.
• Redirect Path: It does one thing but it’s all that you need. Without clicking anywhere you can quickly check if a redirect took place or not. If a redirect happened, you’ll usually see a ‘3xx’ label on the icon in the extensions bar.
• Detailed SEO Extension: Similar to SEO Minion but I like to use it to Get SEO insights at the click of a button. Usually for features like Title, Description, Headings structure, and Schema. In contrast to SEO Minion, this extension is much faster in the on-page analysis.
• View Rendered Source: This shows you how the browser has constructed (rendered) a page’s original HTML into a functioning DOM, including modifications made by JavaScript. Great for Technical SEO Analysis. More on Dynamic rendering here.
• Search Filter: Whenever you need to make your links stand out in search. Search Filter allows you to highlight, or disappear, specified domains. Works on Google and Bing search results.
• Toggle JavaScript: Toggle JavaScript provides you with a simple “enable or disable JavaScript” globally. Great for working with JS powered websites.
• SEO Minion: SEO Minion is able to quickly analyze any web page you want. The HTML analysis allows you to uncover key metrics that can make all the difference in optimizing your content to rank higher. on a search engine such as Google. Some of the best features are the <Title> and its length, the <meta description> and its length, word count on page and canonical tags. I use it only to scrape Organic Results, People Also Ask(PAA), and so on. You can download everything into a CSV and let the magic start. From there, open the data in Sheets or Excel.
• Web Vitals: Web Vitals are quality signals key to delivering great UX on the web (https://web.dev/vitals). This extension measures the Core Web Vitals, providing instant feedback on loading, interactivity, and layout shift metrics.

What are you favorite SEO extensions?