Site Visualizer Version History

Site Visualizer v7.0 Build 73 (May 4, 2023)

Added possibility to show website structure as a tree
Field Filter Panel added to the main window
Custom Search for a text or regular expression on a website implemented
Added integration with PageSpeed Insights data, as well as PSI treshold reports: Low Performance, Slow Speed Index, Potential Savings, etc.
New Content Analysis project option allows to count number of character, words, syllables, sentences, complex words in order to count all major readability scores: Flesch Reading Ease, Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level, Gunning Fog, SMOG, Coleman-Liau, Automated Readability, and Dale–Chall Readability scores
Indexable column added to the Pages table
Added own toolbar for every table of the app, including features: filter, export, quick search, row count, etc.
Fixed bug related to cropping of long text data on crawling
External links are now excluded from Out Links number
Google Index feature updated
Location column (Header, Footer, Navigation, and Content values) added to the Headings reports
Other improvements and bug fixes

Site Visualizer v6.0 Build 64 (December 9, 2022)

New Issues feature implemented
Export of any table to MS Excel workbook implemented
New Security reports (response headers, HTTP, etc.) added (thanks to Local SEO Ltd. for the feature requests)
New reports added: Duplicate titles/meta descriptions/H1 headings, check for length of titles/meta descriptions/H1 headings, missing headings, and more
New URL Info and Response Headers tabs allows to view detailed information of the page selected and its response headers
Links to sitemaps located in robots.txt are now being checked on website crawling
Rows of images and other files with size that exceeds the specified value (100 Kb by default) are now being highlighted
Fixed critical bug related to headings extraction. Also, heading text is now being cleaned of nested HTML tags
Auto fit column width on double click for every table, as well as other minor interface improvements implemented

Site Visualizer v5.1 Build 62 (November 7, 2022)

Fixed issue related to initial connection to the database
Adjust Rows Height function fixed (thanks to John Caines for the feature request)
Minor interface improvements

Site Visualizer v5.0 Build 61 (May 17, 2022)

Site Visualizer now uses PostgreSQL database system as a data storage. This improves crawling speed, reports generation, etc. The database is able to store much more data than the previous one. This allows to avoid freezes and memory errors
Internal Chromium browser now provides an opportunity to crawl websites with client-side JavaScript
Added possibility to run multiple instances of Site Visualizer Pro in order to crawl several websites simultaneously
If the Internet connection was interrupted during crawl process, the app now tries to reconnect and keep connection
Customizable regular expression for <A> HTML tag allow to crawl websites with incorrect link syntax

Site Visualizer v4.2 Build 50 (November 06, 2020)

Filtering possibility for any table implemented: pages, links, all the reports, database query resultset, etc.
Location field (Header, Footer, Navigation, and Content values) added to the Links table, as well as to all related reports (thanks to Jonh Caines for the feature requests)
Several fixes and improvements, including database updates
Improved speed of all reports
Locate URL in Pages report context command implemented
Added support for SQL query logging

Site Visualizer v4.0 Build 41 (June 24, 2019)

Spell checking for page title, meta description, keywords, etc. implemented
New feature allows to crawl list of URLs from a text file, or from a sitemap.xml
New URL metric Response Time implemented
Check Bookmarks option implemented
"No Response", "Other Responses", and "Spelling" reports added
Fixed bug related to access to HTTPS (using SSL or TLS protocols)
Polish language added (thanks to Lukasz Kowalczyk for the translation)
Google Index feature updated
Redirects and broken links are now being drawn on a visual sitemap
Move by visual map with arrow keys
Other minor updates and interface improvements

Site Visualizer v3.0 Build 31 (July 4, 2017)

Crawler unit has been re-written from scratch. It now becomes much more stable and fast. A lot of crashes and bugs were fixed.
Changed licensing scheme allowed to decrease the price by almost twice.
Added support for UTF-8 and GZIP HTML text encoding (thanks to Terry Pierce for the request).
Content Type filter for Pages table added.
Delete Page(s) and Re-crawl Page(s) commands now work on all the URLs selected (thanks to Roberto Porcar).
Row numbers on Pages and Links tables, and other minor interface improvements.

Site Visualizer v2.6 Build 20 (May 4, 2016)

Access to HTTPS websites using SSL reworked (thanks to Andrea Vandom for the bug report). Fixed several frequent crawl errors.
Added random request delay and proxy support for Google Index checking tool.

Site Visualizer v2.5 Build 19 (March 15, 2016)

New Google Index feature implemented.
Possibility to show URLs blocked by robots.txt added.
Several crawling enhancements.

Site Visualizer v2.4 Build 18 (November 27, 2015)

Added possibility to crawl secure areas of a website with login and password provided (thanks to Natalie Kennedy for the feature request).
Import Data wizard implemented. Allows to import a text file (e.g., Google Analytics or Webmaster Tools exported report) for following combination with crawled website data.
Upload XML sitemap (or any other file) to the website by FTP.
Batch mode support implemented. Available commands: crawl a website, create an XML sitemap, upload a file to the website by FTP, run a report (predifined or custom) and export it to a CSV file, and others.
Some crawling and interface improvements.

Site Visualizer v2.3 Build 16 (April 29, 2015)

Support for multilingual XML sitemap added (hreflang element).
Site map drawing algorithm has been reworked to provide visualization of large websites.
Visual sitemap dimension options implemented.
Duplicate Page Content report added.
Improved crawling speed.

Site Visualizer v2.2 Build 15 (March 10, 2015)

Direct export to CSV of any table implemented: Pages, Links, Log, Report, and SQL execution result sets. Custom delimiter supported.
Trial version nag-screen removed (thanks to Mark Arthur for the request).
Bug related to '?' symbol exclusion in robots.txt fixed.
Other minor bugs of website scanning process fixed (thanks to Angela Tucker for the bug report).

Site Visualizer v2.1 Build 14 (January 23, 2015)

Check External Links crawling option added.
Re-Crawl Page feature implemented.
Remove URL parameter with a specified value possibility added (e.g. 'start=0', 'sessionid=123', etc.)
Bug related to crawl URLs containing trailing slash fixed.
Some visual changes.

Site Visualizer v2.0 Build 12 (December 12, 2014)

Crawling Log feature implemented.
Time of crawling process has been significantly decreased.
Crawling of particular directories implemented.
New Custom Report feature allows to create a user-defined report and use it as a predefined report from the Reports tree.
Support for special ANSI characters implemented.
Non-ASCII URLs are shown decoded now (original encoded ones are still available at the Source Code column of the Links table).
Rel="canonical" attribute is now shown for every page.
Canonicals report implemented.
Links with different protocols (e.g., http:// and https://), as well as links from www-version of a page to non-www (and vice versa), now considered as internal. They're now highlighted in the Links table.
Title and Meta Description length checks have been implemented in compliance with MOZ's SEO Cheat Sheet.
Description Occurrences report added. Allows to find duplicate meta descriptions.
Several XML and visual sitemap bugs fixed.
Various interface and internal improvements, as well as bug fixes.
User interface has been translated into German and Russian languages. Support is also available now in these languages.

Site Visualizer v1.5 Build 10 (July 7, 2014)

Fixed bug in the regular expression related to multiline links (thanks to Andre Kock for report and testing).
A few of improvements in website crawling process, as well as in user interface also were made.
Windows 7-style taskbar progress on crawling and other time-taking operations implemented.
Encoding of special HTML characters added to XML sitemap generating.
New 'Open URL in Browser' command was added to the Visual Sitemap context menu.
Fixed bug related to saving and loading large project files.
Alexa Rank checking has been corrected and improved.

Site Visualizer v1.4 Build 8 (April 30, 2014)

Drawing of external pages and links implemented.
Removing of parameters from a URL string during crawling implemented.
Delete Page context menu command implemented.
Crawling of websites that do not support HEAD request implemented.
Support for HTML redirects implemented, as well as other improvements in redirect handling.
Added support for single quotes in HTML tags according to the SGML and HTML document.
A few of interface improvements.

Site Visualizer v1.3 Build 7 (March 25, 2014)

Find dialog implemented. It's available at the context menu of every table: Pages, Links, Reports, SQL Result Set.
Errors in <meta> tags regular expressions have been fixed (thanks to Marco De Luca for the bug request).
Close Project command implemented, as well as Save dialog small bug has been fixed (according to the request on the Forum).
Other insignificant changes in the website crawling process and in the user interface were made.
Program executable name has been changed from 'svz.exe' to 'svzlite.exe', 'svzstd.exe', and 'svzpro.exe' respectively. Please uninstall previous version before the update.

Site Visualizer v1.2 Build 6 (March 3, 2014)

Proxy server support implemented (thanks to Stefan Antoni for the feature request).
Fixed bug in <A> link regular expression (thanks to Robb Sands for the bug request).
Height of a website's page rectangle on a visual sitemap now depends on number of outbound links.
Some corrections have been made to "Copy Rows" and "Copy Rows with Headers" context menu commands.
"Title Length" and "Description Length" cell value is now highlighted if it exceeds the limit (specified in Options dialog, 70 and 160 by default accordingly)
Fixed bug related to access to URLs containing '&' symbol.
A few of cosmetic interface improvements were made.

Site Visualizer v1.1 Build 4 (February 12, 2014)

Frames support implemented.
Added an option that allows to crawl only directories specified, or to exclude certain directories from crawling.
Automatically check for updates feature implemented.
HTML comments handling implemented.
Relative URLs processing updated according to RFC3986 Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax standard.

Site Visualizer v1.0 Build 3 (January 15, 2014)

Fixed an issue related to access to encoded URLs.
Fixed the rare crawling error "Referential Integrity Violation."
Fixed some minor bugs.

Site Visualizer v1.0 Build 2 (January 10, 2014)

Implemented text encoding conversion on website crawling.
Fixed the bug associated with relative URLs containing "./" or "../".
Implemented drag & drop of *.SVZ project files.
Fixed minor interface issues.

Site Visualizer v1.0 Build 1 (December 25, 2013)

First official beta release!