About this plugin
Varnild checks how well your pages are set up to be found, read, and understood by AI search and assistants. Every result is transparent and explainable: each score is simply “X of Y checks passed”, so you always know why a page scored the way it did.
What you get:
- Deterministic, explainable checks across three areas (access, answerability, and technical basics).
- Clear guidance on what to fix, shown only where a check fails.
- A prioritized “Problems” view that lists the most widespread issues across your site first.
- History, so you can see how a page develops over time.
- Optional AI-generated suggestions (titles, descriptions, FAQ, structured data and more), drafted for you to review — never applied automatically.
Varnild measures readiness — how prepared a page is to be found by AI. It does not promise or guarantee that any page will be cited by an AI system.
Scan results — including the score, check details, and any AI analysis and suggestions — are stored in your own WordPress database so you can view history. Only the three most recent scans per URL are kept.
External services
This plugin connects to an external service to analyze your pages: the Varnild scanning service.
When you run a scan, the plugin sends the page’s URL to the Varnild service. The service retrieves that page, analyzes it, and returns the results (a score and the per-check details) to your site.
When you request AI suggestions for a page, the plugin sends the page’s URL together with the list of checks that failed for that page. The Varnild service then retrieves the page and sends relevant page content to Google’s Gemini API to generate the suggestions, which are returned to your site as drafts for you to review.
Data is sent to these services only when you actively start a scan or request AI suggestions — nothing is sent in the background.
The Varnild service processes the data only to generate the results and does not retain the URL or page content after returning the response.
The AI-suggestion feature is powered by Google’s Gemini API, so page content used for those suggestions is processed by Google. On Google’s free tier, submitted content may be used by Google to improve their services; see Google’s terms below.
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