Changelog

New features, improvements and fixes to SiteRefiner, newest first.

The changelog lists every change shipped to SiteRefiner, newest first, tagged as new, improved or fixed. It is the record of what the product does today and what has recently changed.

September 2026

Search intent on every keyword

Keywords are now labelled transactional, commercial or informational without anyone filling in a column. The estimate reads the wording of the query and checks it against what SiteRefiner already knows about the site, from how the term performs in ads to the page Google ranks for it.

Low-confidence guesses stay blank, because a wrong label quietly skews a forecast while an empty one is honest. Intent you set yourself is marked as chosen and never overwritten, and the budget planner now uses intent when it forecasts return.

Tidier navigation

Menus across the app were reorganised and tidied, with a round of visual polish to go with them.

Keywords, Spend & Return and Google Ads

Every site now has a keyword universe, seeded from Search Console queries, Google Ads keywords, content targets and manual entry, deduplicated and tracked over time.

The new Google Ads check reads spend, clicks and conversions per campaign, keyword and search term through the site's existing Google connection, so there is nothing new to set up. It flags wasted spend and paid-organic overlap and ends in a written budget strategy you can question. Spend & Return joins it all per keyword, and the budget planner splits terms into buy, build or own.

Dashboard and logs refresh

The dashboard and the logs views were reworked alongside the new spend features.

Connect Google with a service account

Sites can now connect their Google properties by sharing them with a service account, so nothing waits on one-click sign-in being finalised.

Steadier link crawls

  • Large sites no longer fail part-way through a link crawl.
  • A crawl that loses its browser fails straight away instead of hanging.
  • Pages behind a bot challenge are given time to settle before buttons are tested.

Live per-page progress

Long checks used to say "running" and nothing else. Site Audit, Link Crawl and Page Speed Insights now report pages done against pages total, live in the run history and on the run detail view.

Progress covers the page crawl itself. The shorter follow-up passes for broken images and dead links run once it finishes.

Page types and team roles

  • Sitemap pages are classified by type, and the Site Audit, Link Crawl, Page Speed, Search Console and GA4 run views can all be filtered by it.
  • Invite teammates to an account as Account Admin, Editor, Content Generator or Viewer.

Crawling sites behind firewalls

  • Sites behind bot protection and firewalls are crawled more reliably.
  • A sitemap that refuses to load is recovered another way instead of failing the run.
  • Very large sitemaps no longer overwhelm the crawler.

Checks that never started

Some scheduled checks could sit waiting without being picked up. Every check is now picked up, and slow Page Speed and Search Console runs no longer hold up faster checks.

August 2026

Conversion Funnel

Define a sequence of GA4 events for a site and the funnel check reports how many users reach each step, the completion rate and where people drop off. It reuses the site's GA4 connection, so there is nothing new to set up.

Service access per account

Each account now has its own list of available services. New accounts start with the three Site Health checks, and removing a service clears its schedules on every site so it stops running straight away.

Schedule frequencies

Every site and service pair can run daily, weekly, monthly or only when you press Run now.

Clients and sites under accounts

  • Sites now live inside an account and can be tagged into client folders, with both in the side navigation.
  • The Lighthouse check is now called Page Speed Insights, after the Google tool behind it.

Breadcrumbs and quicker account setup

Breadcrumbs across the app, accounts created from a dialog without leaving the list, and an update to Site Audit.

First release

Accounts, sites and scheduled checks, with every run and its findings kept in one place.

Shipping every week.See it on your own sites.