Changelog

Release notes

A log of changes shipped to Stackborne and its tools. Updated as features are released.

Latest: v1.6.4 — 31 May 2026
v1.6.4
31 May 2026
Improvement
Email Checker — SPF provider detection & display fixes
  • +SPF card now detects named email providers from include: values — Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Mailchimp, SendGrid, and 14 others
  • +"Via SPF: Provider · Provider" pill shown inside the SPF card when known platforms are detected
  • ↑SPF card body text now reflects actual detected providers instead of a generic "not dangerously open" message
  • ↑DKIM card now shows all detected providers, not just the first one — "Mailchimp · Microsoft 365" instead of "Mailchimp"
  • ✕Fixed: www. prefix stripped before DNS lookup — www.domain.com and domain.com now return identical results
v1.6.3
31 May 2026
New tool
Email Deliverability Checker — new free tool
  • +New tool at stackborne.com/email-checker/ — enter any domain to check all five email DNS records in ~5 seconds
  • +Checks MX, SPF, DKIM (20 common selectors in parallel), DMARC, and BIMI
  • +Animated score ring (0–100) with grade — Excellent / Good / Needs work / At risk
  • +SPF: detects permissive policies (+all) and flags shared hosting providers mixed in with email platforms
  • +DKIM: maps 20 common selectors to provider names — Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Mailchimp, SendGrid, and more
  • +DMARC: shows policy strength (none / quarantine / reject) with plain-English explanation
  • +"What this means for your business" section — contextual impact rows for email marketing, spoofing risk, and transactional email
  • +Runs entirely via Cloudflare DNS-over-HTTPS — no API key, no cost, no rate limits
  • +Added to resources page and homepage resources section
v1.6.2
31 May 2026
New
Homepage — light & dark mode
  • +Light / dark mode toggle added to the homepage nav — switches instantly with no flash on reload
  • +Preference saved to localStorage — your choice persists across visits
  • +Full light mode design — warm off-white canvas with adapted colours for hero blobs, cards, nav, buttons, and all sections
v1.6.1
31 May 2026
Improvement
Website Audit — contextual tool CTAs, back link & resource fixes
  • +Contextual tool CTAs in results — if images are missing alt text, the Readability & Contrast tool is surfaced; if schema is missing or failing, the Schema Generator is shown
  • +Launch checklist CTA always shown in the Overview tab results
  • +Added "Back to resources" link to the Website Audit page
  • ↑Resources page — added Readability & Contrast Checker card; removed AI Visibility Checker card (not live yet)
  • ↑Fixed stale file-path links across tools — all resource links now point to live stackborne.com URLs
v1.6.0
31 May 2026
New tool
Readability & Contrast Checker — new free tool
  • +New tool at stackborne.com/readability-checker/ — enter any URL to get a full readability and contrast report
  • +Flesch Reading Ease score with grade level, word count, sentence count, average sentence length, and reading time
  • +Sentence heatmap — every sentence shown as its own row, colour-coded easy / medium / complex with word count and tier summary badges
  • +WCAG contrast failures — powered by Google Lighthouse, shows exact foreground/background hex pairs failing AA with before/after visual previews and copy-paste CSS fixes
  • +Site colour palette extracted from CSS — all detected hex colours shown as swatches
  • +Google Lighthouse accessibility score pill
  • +Inline contrast checker widget — always-visible on the page; accepts hex or RGB, live text preview, WCAG AA & AAA badges, native colour picker, swap button
v1.5.1
30 May 2026
New
Website Audit — PDF export & accuracy fixes
  • +Download PDF — export your full audit report as a PDF directly from the results page
  • ↑www redirects no longer flagged as failures — example.com → www.example.com is now correctly treated as a normal redirect
  • ↑Mobile score accuracy — was inadvertently counting the performance score twice; now uses Speed Index as a distinct mobile signal
  • ↑Audits run ~2s faster — background checks (llms.txt, sitemap, robots.txt) now fire in parallel instead of one after another
  • ↑Loading steps no longer complete before results arrive — animation now holds on the final step until the audit data is ready
v1.5.0
29 May 2026
Improvement
Audit results UI — tabs & status indicators
  • ↑Rebuilt results layout into 5 tabs: Overview, Performance, SEO & Content, AI & Discovery, Security
  • ↑Added tri-color status indicators per check item: green (pass), amber (warn), red (fail)
v1.4.0
26 May 2026
New checks
Website Audit — 9 new checks
  • +Sitemap detection — checks /sitemap.xml and /sitemap_index.xml
  • +Thin content detection — flags pages under 300 words
  • +Heading structure — H1/H2/H3 counts, broken hierarchy flag
  • +Image alt text coverage via Lighthouse image-alt audit
  • +Internal link count for the audited URL
  • +Social preview card built from Open Graph tags (og:title, og:description, og:image)
  • +Top 3 Lighthouse audit failures surfaced as opportunities
  • +Page weight (bytes) and network request count from total-byte-weight and network-requests
  • +Cache header detection via X-LiteSpeed-Cache, CF-Cache-Status, X-Cache, X-Powered-By
v1.3.0
20 May 2026
New checks
Website Audit — AI signals, security headers, CrUX & tech stack
  • +robots.txt parser — checks allow/block status for GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Diffbot
  • +Security headers check — CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy, Permissions-Policy
  • +Tech stack fingerprinting from HTML — CMS, page builder, cache plugin, analytics, ecommerce platform
  • +CrUX field data from PSI loadingExperience — LCP, INP, CLS, FCP, TTFB with pass/fail thresholds
  • +Platform-aware top fix injection based on detected stack
v1.2.0
14 May 2026
New pages
Case studies & contact page
  • +Case studies index and 4 individual pages: Crown Car Wash, The Qualitative Research Institute, Enable Health Consulting, EINSC
  • +Contact page with Elementor AJAX form
v1.1.0
8 May 2026
Improvement
Mobile nav & responsive layout
  • +Hamburger menu with slide-out mobile drawer across all pages
  • ↑Standardised type scale and responsive breakpoints site-wide
  • ↑SVG icon sprite (coolicons v4.1) replacing inline emoji
v1.0.0
1 May 2026
Launch
Initial release
  • +Website Audit tool — Cloudflare Worker backend, Google PageSpeed Insights API, scoring across 5 categories
  • +Website Launch Checklist
  • +Services pages — Websites, AI & Automations
  • +Community waitlist with Elementor AJAX form

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