How Bernard checks your site - and what he does about it
Most website tools hand you a hundred warnings and wish you luck. Bernard works the other way round: he watches your site, tells you the handful of things that actually matter, fixes them when you say so - and then proves the fix worked.
What gets checked
Every time you publish, Bernard re-reads your live site and runs four checks:
- Broken links - a link on your site pointing at a page that doesn't exist. Visitors hit a dead end; Google notices too.
- Page details - every page should have its own title and description, because that's what Google shows in search results. Missing or duplicated ones make pages easy to skip.
- Structured data - the behind-the-scenes description that tells search engines what your business offers. If it's broken or incomplete, Google can't read it.
- Speed and usability - Google's own independent test (the same one behind your Lighthouse score) grades how fast and usable your pages are on a phone.
What you'll see
Problems appear on your site's page under Things Bernard can still improve, grouped in plain English - "People are being sent to a missing page", "Missing page details" - with the heaviest first. Each one explains why a real visitor would care, keeps the technical detail one click away, and carries two buttons:
- Fix this - Bernard prepares the change on a draft. You see a preview; nothing goes live until you approve it.
- Dismiss - not everything is worth doing. Dismissed items stay quietly out of the way.
Bernard checks his own work
After a fix goes live, the same check runs again. A genuine win shows as ✓ Fixed, with the proof. If the checker still flags the problem, Bernard says so honestly - "Published - though Google's checker still flags this one" - and offers another pass. There are no quiet ticks.
The story, kept
Open What's happened under any item and you'll see its whole story: when Bernard spotted it, when you asked for it to be sorted, when the change went live, and what the re-check found. A few weeks after a fix, Bernard adds the final chapter from real Google data - how often the page was shown, and how many people came.
That last part is the point. Anyone can generate a to-do list; Bernard keeps the receipts.
The prompt
“Check my site for problems, list the most important ones in plain words, and wait for me to choose what to fix.”
Press Copy, then paste it into your AI and fill in the [bracketed] parts. First time? Connect your AI to bernard first - a one-time setup in bernard → your site → Use your own AI.
Questions people ask
- What exactly does Bernard check?
- Four things. Links that point at missing pages, so visitors never hit a dead end. Page details - the titles and descriptions Google shows in search results. Structured data - the behind-the-scenes description that tells search engines what your business offers. And Google's own speed and usability test, which grades how fast and usable your pages are on a phone.
- When do the checks run?
- Every time you publish, Bernard re-reads the live site and re-runs the checks - so the list is always about the site as it is now, not as it was. Google's speed test is also re-measured after publishes, and once a week Bernard gathers results for fixes that have had time to bed in.
- Will I get buried in warnings?
- No. Bernard only lists problems worth acting on, grouped in plain English - things like "People are being sent to a missing page" - with the heaviest first. Anything he can't explain in a sentence, with evidence, stays off your list.
- What happens when I press Fix this?
- Bernard prepares the change on a draft and shows you a preview. Nothing goes live until you approve it. If you'd rather not deal with something, Dismiss tucks it away and it won't nag you again.
- How do I know a fix actually worked?
- Bernard checks his own work. After a fix goes live, the same check runs again: a genuine win shows as Fixed with the proof, and if the problem is still there, Bernard says so honestly and offers another pass - no quiet ticks.
- What is "What's happened" under each item?
- Every item keeps its own story: when Bernard spotted it, when you asked for it to be sorted, when the change was prepared, when it went live, and what the re-check found. A few weeks after a fix, Bernard adds what it earned - how often Google showed the page and how many people came.