What is a Website Health Checker?
A website can be quietly broken in ways no one notices until customers do: an expiring certificate, a slow first byte, missing security headers, spoofable email. This check runs nine real probes and scores the results out of 100.
Every line in the report is a genuine measurement made just now: a TLS handshake, DNS queries, timed HTTP requests: never an invented "authority score". Each finding links to the specific tool that diagnoses it deeper.
What the score covers, and what it cannot
The score comes from probes of the things that are objectively either working or not: certificate validity and expiry, DNS resolution, redirect behavior, response headers, email authentication records and response timing. Those are measurable from outside without any access to your site, which is exactly why they can be checked honestly.
What the number cannot tell you is whether the site is any good. It says nothing about whether the copy persuades anybody, whether the checkout works, whether the design holds up on a phone, whether the content is accurate, or whether the site is accessible to somebody using a screen reader. A site can score full marks and still fail every visitor it gets. Read the score as a statement that the plumbing is sound, not that the house is worth living in.
The order worth fixing things in
Not every finding is equally urgent, and the report does not rank them for you. A certificate close to expiry comes first, because the failure mode is a full-page browser warning that stops every visitor at the door. Email authentication is next, since broken SPF or DMARC quietly sends your invoices and password resets to spam, and nobody reports that to you.
Missing security headers follow. They rarely break anything today, and they are the cheapest fixes on the list, usually a few lines in the server configuration. Response time comes last, not because speed does not matter but because it is the one item where a real improvement takes real work rather than a configuration change.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly is checked?
Availability over HTTPS, HTTPS/SSL validity and expiry, DNS address records, response time, redirect chain length, six security headers, and SPF + DMARC email authentication.
How is the score calculated?
Each check has a weight (availability weighs most). Full weight for a pass, half for a warning, zero for a fail: summing to 100. No black-box magic.
Is 76/100 good?
It means the fundamentals work but real issues exist: typically missing security headers or email auth. The list tells you exactly which and how to fix them.
Can BitsSolved fix the problems it finds?
Yes: that is our day job. Use the "Get a Quote" button under your report and we will come back with a concrete plan.