SitePaladin

Problem & audience

Broken links and missing metadata are easier to investigate when findings are saved against the pages that produced them. SitePaladin provides bounded audits and page-level reports.

A website maintainer auditing an authorized site or controlled fixture, rather than attempting unrestricted crawling.

My role

Independent project developer, implementing the Rust application, crawl boundaries, persistence and server-rendered reporting interface.

• Rust
• Axum
• Tokio
• SQLite
• SQLx
• Askama
• Reqwest

Implemented features

• Checks links and common metadata in server-returned HTML within a bounded crawl.
• Saves findings by page in SQLite, with scan progress, cancellation and JSON/CSV export.
• Provides authenticated operator access and browser print/save-as-PDF for reports.

Engineering decisions

• Uses Axum/Tokio for the service and Askama templates for HTML, without requiring a JavaScript-rendering crawler.
• Validates outbound destinations and redirects hop by hop; deployment-level egress restrictions remain part of the documented hosting boundary.
• Persists operator sessions and records unfinished scans as interrupted after restart rather than claiming automatic resumption.

Testing & validation

• Repository unit tests cover URL boundaries, audit rules, link classification, CSRF and session persistence.
• CI defines formatting, Clippy and Rust tests.
• Built the fixture-enabled application locally and ran a controlled audit during this update. The scan completed with its configured 12-page limit; the screenshot preserves the truncation notice. The full Rust test suite was not rerun.

Current scope & limitations

• Does not execute page JavaScript, predict search rankings or provide AI-generated SEO analysis.
• Automatic PDF generation, email delivery and scheduling are roadmap items.
• The local-fixture mode is a development-only exception, not a general allowance to crawl private networks.