{"name":"GoLiveClearance public check definitions","version":"2026-09-13","scope":"One bounded scan of publicly accessible responses","definitions":[{"id":"https_redirect","signal":"HTTP requests reach an HTTPS final URL","evidence":"Redirect chain and final URL","failure":"Plain HTTP remains the final URL","limitation":"Does not test every subdomain or mixed content","severity":"blocker"},{"id":"tls_cert","signal":"The fetched HTTPS endpoint presents a currently usable certificate","evidence":"TLS connection and certificate timing available to the scanner","failure":"Certificate is expired or close to expiry","limitation":"Not a complete TLS configuration or cipher audit","severity":"warning"},{"id":"robots_txt","signal":"robots.txt is reachable and does not contain a blanket Disallow: /","evidence":"GET /robots.txt response and parsed wildcard group","failure":"A complete crawl block is detected","limitation":"Does not prove indexing and does not evaluate every named bot policy","severity":"blocker"},{"id":"noindex","signal":"The fetched page has no detected meta or X-Robots-Tag noindex","evidence":"HTML robots meta and response headers","failure":"A noindex directive is present","limitation":"Only the fetched page and response are evaluated","severity":"blocker"},{"id":"canonical","signal":"A canonical URL is present without a detected preview-host leak","evidence":"HTML link rel=canonical","failure":"Canonical is missing or points to a preview host","limitation":"Does not prove search engines will select that canonical","severity":"warning"},{"id":"title_description","signal":"A descriptive title and meta description are present","evidence":"Fetched server HTML","failure":"A field is missing or outside the launch-check range","limitation":"Length ranges are heuristics, not ranking guarantees","severity":"warning"},{"id":"h1","signal":"A primary H1 is present in fetched HTML","evidence":"Server-returned HTML heading","failure":"No H1 is detected","limitation":"Does not score writing quality or rendered visual hierarchy","severity":"warning"},{"id":"sitemap","signal":"A reachable XML sitemap with usable URL entries is found","evidence":"robots Sitemap directive and common sitemap paths","failure":"No usable sitemap is found","limitation":"Sampling does not prove every listed URL is indexable","severity":"warning"},{"id":"open_graph","signal":"Core Open Graph fields are present","evidence":"og:title, og:description and og:image in HTML","failure":"A core field is missing","limitation":"Does not render every social platform preview","severity":"warning"},{"id":"security_headers","signal":"Configured defensive response headers are present","evidence":"Public response headers","failure":"One or more configured headers are absent","limitation":"Header presence is not a penetration test or security certification","severity":"warning"}]}