BulkStatus

BulkStatus came out of a recurring need at work: checking hundreds or thousands of URLs for status codes, redirects, and basic on-page data, without paying for or waiting on a full crawling platform. A colleague and I kept running into the same problem from different angles, so we partnered on defining what the tool needed to do and testing it against real sites while I drove the strategy, concept, and build.

The result is a Chrome extension rather than a hosted tool. That keeps it free to run, keeps the data on the machine doing the checking, and means there's no server to pay for or maintain. It's built for SEO and AI-crawler readiness work specifically: as much about whether a page is reachable and well-formed for AI systems as it is for traditional search crawlers.

It also had to work for two different people. A colleague who just needs a quick answer shouldn't have to know what crawl concurrency is; someone who does want that control should be able to get in and tune it. The main screen keeps a couple of one-click presets in plain language (a full rendered scan, a link-only audit, an image-only audit, a fast URL-only pass), each with a short description of what it does, while the full settings panel underneath exposes concurrency, timeouts, render wait times, and per-run caps for anyone who wants to go deeper. Every setting carries its own explanation, so nobody has to guess what a toggle does. It's also free, with no license or account required: install it straight from the Chrome Web Store and it works.