What shipped

Public API and developer surface

• Public REST API is now on Pro $49/mo with 5,000 calls per month. Mint a key at app.metricspot.com/settings/api-keys. Free and Starter return 403 on token calls; the anonymous audit endpoint stays free (1 per IP per 24h).
• OpenAPI 3.1 spec at metricspot.com/openapi.yaml. 12 endpoints, 20 schemas, 8 reusable error responses. Import into Postman, Insomnia, or generate clients.
• Interactive API reference at /features/seo-api/reference/ (and per-locale variants). Try every call in the browser, with live request examples for all 12 endpoints.
• /features/seo-api/ rewritten: 12 endpoints (was 6), accurate counts (154 rules across 15 modules, was 91/11), translated across 7 locales.
• New @metricspot/mcp-server npm package for the Model Context Protocol integration. Same ms_live_ keys, same audit engine.

Landing pages

• /woorank-alternative — direct comparison page in 7 languages. Pricing wedge, feature matrix, sourced user-sentiment quotes.
• /agencies — Pro $49/mo recommended. Unlimited domains, scheduled audits, white-label PDF with brand kit.
• /small-businesses — Free tier first, Starter $29/mo when ready. Plain-English, stack-aware audits for WordPress, WooCommerce, Shopify, Astro.
• /features/google-analytics-4 and /features/google-search-console — privacy posture spelled out, scope details published.
• Footer: new Solutions column linking the verticals + comparison page.

Audit engine and crawler

• Audit errors split into distinct kinds: DNS not found, timeouts, refused TLS, and firewall blocks each surface their own message. No more misleading “firewall HTTP 0” for a typo’d domain.
• DNS preflight on POST /api/audits catches NXDOMAIN typos synchronously instead of round-tripping through the worker.
• Crawler now bypasses WordPress firewall blocks with a clean Chrome user agent and DOMContentLoaded wait.
• Audit progress page shows a progress bar with a rotating tip carousel while the audit runs.
• Score donuts on the audit detail page animate in instead of snapping.

Stack-aware audit modules

• WooCommerce module: store-specific findings shown only on Shopify and WooCommerce sites.
• WordPress module: WP-specific fixes shown only on WordPress.
• Astro module: detection plus initial rules for Image component, client directives, View Transitions.

i18n

• Catalan added as the 7th supported language across the app, with 108 translated docs pages and full PDF output.

Billing and pricing

• Switch cycle (monthly ↔ annual) directly from Settings → Plans, with prorated invoices on the spot.
• Billing settings now show payment method and invoices, edit details inline, and open the Stripe portal directly.
• Free plan moved from 3 lifetime audits to 10 audits per month (1 per site per 24h). Anonymous audits capped at 1 per IP per 24h.
• Premium renamed to Starter at $29/mo, capped at 50 audits/month and 5 domains. Pro $49/mo keeps unlimited audits and scheduled re-audits (weekly, biweekly, monthly).

Admin and reliability

• In-app /contact page so signed-in users no longer bounce to the marketing site.
• Admin impersonation: 30-minute scoped JWT with a persistent red banner.
• Audit failures log to /admin/errors and ping Discord on permanent fail.
• Public CSV export of organic-traffic data (Pro only).

Organic Traffic module

• Organic Traffic module shipped: GA4 + GSC visuals (donuts, 28-day sparklines, Quick Wins, Search Indexing) interleaved with the relevant audit checks.
• New “Long-term opportunities” rule added on top of the striking-distance / low-CTR existing ones.
• Standalone Website Speed card with real-user Core Web Vitals (field LCP, CLS, TTFB) from PageSpeed Insights.
• Audit now runs in two phases so PageSpeed Insights no longer blocks completion.

Per-rule documentation

• 91 audit-rule docs pages launched at /docs/<slug>/, fully translated across 6 locales (Catalan added later). Linked from every finding’s “Read more”. Indexed in sitemap, llms.txt, and agents.txt.
• Per-rule “Read more” links point to localized docs, with Catalan fallback to Spanish then English.

Email reliability

• Per-recipient email suppression with circuit breaker on bounces and complaints (SES).
• Admin emails console: Failed tile, status filter, recipient search, pause toggle, bulk resend, and mark-resolved actions.

Backlinks

• New OpenPageRank authority signal in the Modern SEO module.

Funnel and lifecycle

• Funnel Wave 1 and 2: paywall card, usage banner, soft-gate, welcome and abandoned-checkout emails, plus a 7-day no-card Premium trial on signup with lifecycle emails.
• Funnel Wave 3: annual-savings badge, win-back coupon for cancelers, renewal reminder email.
• Delete account flow with a 48-hour grace period and automatic Stripe cancel.
• Dashboard now gated behind email verification (magic link or 6-digit code).

Authentication

• Two-step verification via TOTP, with backup codes.
• Passkeys (WebAuthn) login: register, list, rename, delete, sign in with a passkey.
• Secondary email support: add, verify by link, change, remove.
• “Continue with Google” sign-in (OAuth 2.0).

Public audit

• Anonymous public audit at /audit: full report grouped by module, with a signup wall and marketing header/footer.

Admin

• Admin dashboard shipped: MRR sparkline, signups, user search, IP and country capture, conversion funnel, trial-to-paid cohorts, GA4 marketing analytics panel, email activity, and active-stores monitoring.

Billing

• Stripe live wiring: full lifecycle (subscribe, cancel, upgrade, portal, idempotency) with Discord notifications.

Analytics

• GA4 installed with cross-domain linker and conversion events: sign_up, audit_started, begin_checkout, purchase (with revenue).

Brand kit

• Logo upload (cap raised to 2 MB), styled color picker, consistent input heights. Brand kit auto-applies to every PDF.

Dashboard

• Dashboard rows are drag-to-reorder, with per-row delete and regenerate.

PDF report

• PDF rebuilt to mirror the in-app audit detail page. Module sections start on a new page; prioritized focus list on the cover.

Audit scoring

• Social Signals module added (6th module, 12% of total score).

i18n and marketing

• Full i18n across 6 locales (en, es, de, fr, pt, it) for app, public pricing endpoint, emails, and PDFs.
• Marketing site rebuilt: 36 pages across 6 locales, hreflang × 6, localized OG images, full mobile menu.

Pricing reset

• Pricing reset to USD: Pro $49/mo, 25% annual discount, monthly and annual toggle.

Content

• All 76 legacy blog posts reprocessed under the AI-rank framework, with FAQPage JSON-LD added site-wide.

Infrastructure

• Marketing site migrated from Cloudflare Pages to Hetzner + Dokku. Legacy /panel/*, AMP, and WP slugs now 301 to canonical destinations.