site-health

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site-health

A fast CLI for checking website and domain health.

Status: Go rewrite complete (v0.9.2)

Quick Start

site-health example.com
site-health --verbose example.com
site-health --mail example.com
site-health --skip-mail example.com
site-health --format json example.com

Features

Zero external dependencies — stdlib only:

• Domain registration expiry
• Registrar lookup
• Optional verbose output for troubleshooting
• DNS resolution (A, AAAA, CNAME)
• TCP connectivity (80/443)
• HTTP/HTTPS availability
• Redirect and canonical URL validation
• SSL certificate validation
• Response time measurement
• HTML content validation
• Common server/PHP/WordPress error detection
• Parked domain detection
• Final summary with failure and warning counts
• MX record lookup, including Null MX recognition
• SPF TXT record validation
• DMARC TXT record validation
• Mail checks skippable in site mode with --skip-mail
• Optional /llms.txt availability check (skippable with --skip-llms-txt)
• Machine-readable JSON output for automation and monitoring

Usage

Run the full website/domain health check. By default, output is a concise dashboard:

site-health example.com

Example:

Site Health Check
Domain: example.com
Expected URL: https://example.com/

SITE HEALTH
───────────
● example.com
  DNS          OK
  HTTPS        OK
  SSL          81 days
  Redirect     OK
  Response     184 ms
  Mail         OK
Status: HEALTHY

When a forwarded or explicit canonical URL matters, the dashboard includes it:

Site Health Check
Domain: example.com
Expected URL: https://example.org/

SITE HEALTH
───────────
● example.com
  DNS          OK
  HTTPS        OK
  SSL          81 days
  Redirect     OK
  Response     184 ms
  Mail         OK
Status: HEALTHY

Show detailed troubleshooting diagnostics instead of the dashboard:

site-health --verbose example.com

Run only mail-related DNS checks:

site-health --mail example.com

Mail mode checks only:

• MX
• SPF
• DMARC

Example:

MAIL HEALTH
───────────
● example.com
  MX           OK
  SPF          OK
  DMARC        WARN
Status: WARNING

Show detailed mail diagnostics:

site-health --mail --verbose example.com

Skip mail-related DNS checks in a full site health run:

site-health --skip-mail example.com

This skips MX, SPF, and DMARC checks when mail health is outside the monitoring scope. For domains you control that deliberately do not send or receive mail, explicit no-mail DNS policy is still preferred: Null MX, SPF -all, and DMARC p=reject.

Skip the optional /llms.txt check:

site-health --skip-llms-txt example.com

Forwarded domains are detected automatically when the final URL is unambiguous:

site-health example.com

To strictly require a specific final URL, provide it explicitly:

site-health --expected-url https://example.org/ example.com

Output a machine-readable JSON document instead of the dashboard (useful for scripts, CI, and monitoring). --verbose output is suppressed in JSON mode; the same exit codes apply (0 healthy, 1 issues found):

site-health --format json example.com

Example:

{
  "tool": "site-health",
  "version": "0.9.2",
  "domain": "example.com",
  "mode": "site",
  "expected_url": "https://example.com/",
  "forwarding": {
    "auto_detected": false,
    "ambiguous": false,
    "candidates": []
  },
  "checks": {
    "dns": { "status": "OK", "a": ["104.20.23.154"], "aaaa": [] },
    "https": { "status": "OK" },
    "ssl": { "status": "OK", "days_remaining": 81, "subject": "CN=example.com" },
    "redirect": { "status": "OK" },
    "response": { "status": "OK", "ms": 184 },
    "domain_registration": {
      "status": "OK",
      "registrar": "MarkMonitor Inc.",
      "expires_at": "2028-09-14T04:00:00Z",
      "days_remaining": 757
    },
    "mail": {
      "status": "OK",
      "mx": { "status": "OK", "records": ["0 ."] },
      "spf": { "status": "OK", "records": ["v=spf1 -all"] },
      "dmarc": { "status": "OK", "records": ["v=DMARC1;p=reject"] }
    }
  },
  "issues": [],
  "summary": { "failures": 0, "warnings": 0, "status": "HEALTHY" }
}

In mail-only mode, the checks object contains just the mail block and the top-level mode is "mail". When mail checks are skipped with --skip-mail, the mail block is omitted.

Installation

Homebrew

Preferred installation method on macOS:

brew install atillalab/tap/site-health

Install with go install

go install github.com/atillalab/site-health@latest

Pre-built binary

Download the latest release for your platform from GitHub Releases.

Build from source

Clone the repository and build:

git clone https://github.com/atillalab/site-health.git
cd site-health
go build -o site-health .

The resulting binary has zero external dependencies.

Exit codes

• 0 — healthy, no failures
• 1 — one or more checks failed
• 2 — usage error (missing domain, invalid flag, etc.)

Development

Run tests

go test ./...

Build

go build -o site-health .

Vet

go vet ./...

License

MIT