Web Check
Dev tools
website analysis tool
SHOW HN2024
411points
57comments
#107of 3,515 in 2024
Top 4%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
12 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 22 critical, out of 47 comments about the project. Thread score -0.19.
Execution: 0 for, 17 againstDesign: 3 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Clean, fast UI with information organised as cards
From 3 comments
I have been using this and I have got to say this is one of the best open source projects at least for me as I need to look up URLs reputation and this is highly helpful in how…
Ahmd72 on HNI enjoyed the UI, cool aesthetic.
jacobprall on HNHey that was a pleasantly great experience. I don't have anything to add. Nicely done. Thanks!
breck on HN
Useful all-in-one overview of a site
From 3 comments
Amazing! Reminds me that I need to learn a bunch of stuff I know nothing about.
banku_brougham on HNThis is really neat, kudos!
johng on HNVery cool tool!
scubbo on HN
Open source and free
From 2 comments
Beautiful! Thanks for open sourcing this! I've been working on a project [1] that probably wants to become a live crawler like this, but it's currently batch based. I'm focused…
8organicbits on HNI have been using this and I have got to say this is one of the best open source projects at least for me as I need to look up URLs reputation and this is highly helpful in how…
Ahmd72 on HN
Objections
Many results are wrong or misleading (DNSSEC, DKIM, DNS records, undefined values)
From 4 comments
Checking two websites/domains I'm responsible for, this information is really confusing or just plain wrong. The "DNS Records" card for MX is not the IP addresses of the actual…
thwarted on HNIt says my domain "grepular.com" doesn't have dnssec. It does. It also says I don't use DKIM or DMARC. I do.
mike-cardwell on HNLooks nice, some feedback though: It shows my dnssec as not present even though https://dnssec-analyzer.verisignlabs.com/ which it links to shows all green for my test site. The…
SahAssar on HNIt doesn't work very well. I put in my own web address, which is definitely behind cloudfront, and it said it's unprotected, as well as a bunch of other vulns it doesn't have.
whydoineedthis on HN
Malware and threat results appear false positive
From 2 comments
I’m a bit confused on the “Threats” section, entering my member management startup https://embolt.app shows malware detected with a timestamp dating back to 2018 (we launched…
Syntaf on HNLooking at the code [1], your site failed one of four checks [2]: ``` - Google safe browsing - URL Haus (malware distribution) - Phish Tank (phishing URLs) - Cloudmersive…
threecheese on HN
Several features fail without Chromium or API keys, with unclear error messages
From 3 comments
For some reason the Quality check was always failing with an error 403, even though I had followed the link to create a Google API key and passed it as an env var to the Docker…
j1elo on HNIn the tech-stack it gives me "Chromium not found"...
thepra on HNThe tech stack check seems to fail every time. Would love to see with the tech stack details included. Nice and fast, otherwise!
tangoalpha on HN
Energy usage unit KWg is unclear and misleading
From 3 comments
"Energy Usage for Load" is specified in "KWg". What does that mean? Is it a typo for "kWh"?
valleyer on HNWell this was an entertaining 15-minute rabbit hole. The energy consumption metric (KWg) should be more clearly defined with some context info, as it's not even remotely…
nativeit on HNEvery section has little (i) icons and all of them are useless. For my site it shows under "Site Features" a "root authority". Okay that's new to me, let's see what that means.…
Aachen on HN
Requests
List subdomains and certificates
From 2 comments
> everything about any website you're missing subdomains & certs, a very crucial part of investigations imo
compootr on HNLet’s add a function which lists up all sub domain.
quyleanh on HN
Compare results between dates
From 1 comment
Would be nice to be able to compare results between dates.
zerkten on HN
Clearer explanations of each section
From 1 comment
Every section has little (i) icons and all of them are useless. For my site it shows under "Site Features" a "root authority". Okay that's new to me, let's see what that means.…
Aachen on HN
Questions
What is the difference between v1.web-check.xyz and web-check.xyz?
From 1 comment
What's the difference between the link in this post (https://v1.web-check.xyz/) and on your Github (https://web-check.xyz/)?
201984 on HN
Alternatives named
whatsmydns.net
From 1 comment
How do I see how a site is handled in DNS? For example https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/www.bispebjerghospital.dk shows that the address is only resolvable from some locations. I…
iso8859-1 on HN
VirusTotal
From 1 comment
I have been using this and I have got to say this is one of the best open source projects at least for me as I need to look up URLs reputation and this is highly helpful in how…
Ahmd72 on HN