Sitebulb Release Rants

• Resolved UI issues on certain Cloud server instances.

• Performance Budget values in URL Details are now summing correctly.

• Link counts are now consistent between Link Explorer, URL Details, and Links exports.

• View Crawl settings in Cloud now displays the correct domain and setting for the project that is being viewed.

• Shopify sites can now be crawled successfully with Shopify headers authentication.

• Fixed a bug where robots.txt directives were being misinterpreted, causing some sites to be incorrectly flagged as not indexable.

• There was an issue that caused PDF report exports to fail to generate on Sitebulb Cloud.

• Fixed a null reference error that occurred in Sitebulb Cloud when setting up an audit on a URL that redirects.

• Chrome crawler was incorrectly reporting total page transfer size instead of just the HTML file size in the HTML Size hint.

• Fixed a display error within the Content Extraction report that prevented the URL list from loading when viewing extracted data.

• We had a bug where URLs with successful HTTP status codes (200) were incorrectly triggering the 'Error (5xx) URL in XML Sitemap' hint.

• Resolved a bug where the Chrome crawler would report "no source HTML was received" and incorrectly flag canonical tags as missing.

• The PDF builder had started buffering when building the report, so it would cycle around endlessly and never actually generate the PDF.

• Fixed an issue where HTTP authentication credentials were not being applied when crawling XML Sitemaps only, which made it harder to audit staging sites properly.

Breaking Update

• Critical chart rendering issue (desktop)

  • Charts/graphs missing in reports

  • PDF exports appearing blank

  • Caused by third-party library changes (not a Sitebulb bug)

• Full chart system replacement

  • All charts and graphs rebuilt

  • Affects all desktop users, regardless of whether issues were seen

  • Users must update to the latest version ASAP

New Hint: HTML > 2MB

• New Indexability Hint added

  • Flags pages where HTML exceeds 2MB

• Based on Google crawl limitations

  • Large HTML files may be truncated or not fully indexed

• Marked as a critical issue

  • Particularly relevant for large pages with important content

• Located in Indexability section

  • Helps identify potential indexing risks from oversized pages
    
    We fixed a lot of bugs in this release, mostly small ones that only affect one or two sites (we'll email you directly about those). To sum up the other changes:

• Printing PDFs now works again, following the updates to the graphing library (see top of update)

• A lot of updates to improve how Sitebulb validates hreflang across various implementation methods, and cleaning up the messaging regarding x-default.

• Sitebulb was reporting links incorrectly on certain websites (only very specific ones, don't worry!).

• Some mismatches with how Sitebulb was handling different data types for Content Search and Content Extraction (which was causing weird issues on edge cases).

• Sitebulb's UI was making it look like the user-agent value was never saving, when in fact it was (according to devs, this was because of a 'race condition', which sounds like Sitebulb was losing a race against itself. Cool cool).