Monitor.Cat

Monitor.Cat is a lightweight WordPress toolkit that helps you understand and improve your site's SEO, performance, and system health — all from one beautiful dashboard. No external services required. Everything runs locally on your WordPress installation. No accounts to create, no API keys to configure, no data leaves your site. SEO Analysis Scan any post or page for SEO issues with 10 built-in analyzers:

• Meta tags — Title and description length, presence, and uniqueness
• Open Graph — OG and Twitter Card tag verification
• Heading hierarchy — H1-H6 structure validation
• Image alt text — Coverage analysis across all images
• Schema.org — Structured data detection
• Links — Internal and external link analysis
• XML Sitemap — Sitemap availability check
• Robots.txt — Search engine visibility verification
• Canonical URLs — Duplicate content prevention
• Readability — Content readability scoring

Speed Optimization Analyze and improve your site's loading performance:

• Page weight — HTML size and resource analysis
• Image optimization — WebP availability and lazy loading check
• Asset audit — CSS/JS file count and render-blocking detection
• Database cleanup — Remove revisions, auto-drafts, spam, and expired transients
• Caching — Object cache, page cache, and browser cache detection
• Compression — GZIP/Brotli compression verification
• Response time — Server TTFB measurement

System Diagnostics Comprehensive environment information at a glance:

• PHP version, extensions, and configuration
• WordPress version, debug settings, and constants
• Database server info and table statistics
• Web server, disk space, and SSL status
• Active plugins and theme details
• Health checks: cron, REST API, permalinks, file permissions

Coming Soon Additional modules are in development:

• Security — Login protection and hardening
• Backup — Scheduled database and file backups
• SMTP — Mail configuration and testing
• Redirect Manager — URL redirect management
• Scanner — Malware and integrity scanning

1. Upload the monitor-cat directory to /wp-content/plugins/
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress
3. Navigate to Monitor.Cat in the admin sidebar
4. Run your first SEO scan or speed analysis

Or install directly from the WordPress Plugin Directory:

1. Go to Plugins → Add New in your WordPress admin
2. Search for "Monitor.Cat"
3. Click Install Now, then Activate

1.2.2

• Fixed WP.org plugin check warnings: prefixed all template globals, added translators comment, created languages directory
• Added wp_cache for duplicate title DB query in MetaAnalyzer
• Shortened readme.txt short description to under 150 characters

1.2.1

• Fixed robots.txt parser not resetting user-agent groups between sections, causing AI crawler blocks to be incorrectly overridden
• Added missing test stubs for wp_parse_url, get_categories, _n, wpautop
• Updated test expectations for SchemaAnalyzer and GeoReadinessAnalyzer

1.2.0

• Complete rewrite from the ground up
• Added SEO analysis module with 10 analyzers
• Added Speed optimization module with 7 analyzers and database cleanup
• Added Diagnostics module with 6 collectors
• New design system matching the Monitor.Cat brand
• Modern architecture with PSR-4 autoloading
• REST API endpoints for all modules
• Self-hosted fonts and icons (no external CDN calls)

1.1.1

• Initial WordPress.org release