Inspect Canonical

Inspect Canonical

Easily check the canonical tag of a page

What is Inspect Canonical?
'Inspect Canonical' is a Chrome extension that facilitates the detection of canonical tags in webpages. It provides an effortless way to identify the canonical source of any URL you visit, checking if canonical tags point to a new destination without the need for you to comb through the source code. It categorizes the inspection outcome as green for self canonical, amber for canonicalized, or red for errors including no index robots meta, multiple canonical tags and more.
Stats
Users: 5,000+
Rating: 4.40 (10)
Version: 1.0 (Last updated: 2022-11-30)
Creation date: 2019-03-29
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
Size: 29.50K
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Summary

A lightweight and extremely easy Chrome extension that tells you the canonical source of any URL you are on. No more combing through the source code to understand if/when canonical tags point to a new destination. This extension does all the heavy lifting for you.

This extension will display one of three values. GREEN (self canonical) AMBER (Canonicalized) or RED (error)

Below are the conditions Inspect Canonical tests for, in the order it tests for them:

RED:

  1. Page contains noindex robots meta Message: "Page contains robots 'noindex' tag. Canonical tags are ignored. Click to view source"

  2. No canonical in head but there is one elsewhere Message: "Canonical tag exists but not in <head>. Click to view source"

  3. No canonical tag at all

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User reviews
User reviews summary
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Pros
  • Easy to use
  • Innovative tool
  • Compact and Lightweight
  • Useful for SEO
Cons
  • Does not work when switching between tabs
  • Opens the canonical link in a new tab
  • Potential problem with matching URL in addressbar and canonical tag
Most mentioned
  • Canonical checker
  • Ease of use
  • New tab behaviour
  • Matching URL issue
Recent reviews
not working. just a time waste extension
by jim oz jim oz, 2022-05-26

I like the tool, but it would be great if you can add 1 more option. When the button is amber, if I click on the icon, it opens the canonical link in a new tab and I would love it to open in the same tab! :)
by Ahmed Elfiky Ahmed Elfiky, 2021-02-08

When switching between tabs and opening a lot in new tabs, the addon does not work because it shows green icon but URL in adressbar is not matching the canonical tag. And when clicking it opens the wrong URL. So I have to look for another addon. @developer If you bugfix this please tell me, so I review it again.
by Johann Johann, 2020-10-16
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Safety
Risk impact

Inspect Canonical is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Inspect Canonical has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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