# An alternative to Detailed SEO Extension

Alternative, checked October 6, 2026.

These two overlap more than either one’s marketing suggests: both outline headings, show schema, check hreflang return tags, switch user agents and pull People Also Ask questions from Google. Install theirs if you want the fastest read of a page’s raw elements from a tool with 600,000 users behind it, or if you work in Firefox. Install ours if you also want the page scored, a 0–100 number with an A–F letter on the toolbar icon and the issues it found listed by name, next to broken-link, redirect and rendering checks and structured data checked field by field, none of which Detailed’s own pages mention. Neither excludes the other, and plenty of people run both.

Written by SEO Bandwagon, who make one of the two extensions on this page. Detailed SEO Extension's advantages are listed before ours, and every row in the table below is checkable against their own published pages.

- Install ours free: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/seo-bandwagon/dphmaddiedhkejfhabkfdenfphjljioj?utm_source=seobandwagon.com&utm_medium=markdown
- See theirs: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/detailed-seo-extension/pfjdepjjfjjahkjfpkcgfmfhmnakjfba

## Where Detailed SEO Extension is stronger

Detailed SEO Extension is published by Ahrefs Pte. Ltd. and, as of October 6, 2026, its Chrome Web Store listing shows 600,000 users at 4.9 out of 5, from 233 ratings, last updated 2 June 2026. It runs on Chrome and Firefox. Cross-sourced: detailed.com/extension offers "Add to Firefox", and the Firefox add-on is v2.2.7 with 7,664 users, updated 8 May 2026.

- 600,000 users and 4.9 out of 5 from 233 ratings on the Chrome Web Store, with the Featured badge, and it is published by Ahrefs. Ours showed 6 users and one rating the same day.
- It ships on Firefox as well as Chrome, at the same version, 2.2.7. We are Chrome-only.
- It is built for speed, in their words: "Get page-level insights in milliseconds", "Built by full-time SEO’s for daily analysis."
- It is free: "It’s 100% free, with regular updates and zero tracking." Nothing on their pages asks you to sign in.
- Its technical checks match several of ours: it checks hreflang return tags ("check if the other page also references the current one you’re checking"), switches user agents ("Change your user agent to view a site as ‘Googlebot’ and more."), and reads the X-Robots-Tag header ("we check for X-Robots HTTP headers as well").
- It pulls People Also Ask questions from Google "including multiple levels deep". Ours copies the questions already showing on the page.
- Its right-click menu opens the page in Ahrefs, Moz and Majestic. Ours opens Google’s testing tools and the Wayback Machine instead.

## What each one does

Capabilities only: nothing here rates how well either tool does its job. 0 rows go our way, 2 go theirs, and on 10 more Detailed SEO Extension's own pages do not say either way.

| Capability | SEO Bandwagon | Detailed SEO Extension | Note |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Score (0–100) in the popup, letter grade (A–F) on the toolbar icon | Yes | Not stated | Not claimed or ruled out by their store listing, detailed.com/extension, its changelog or their Firefox page, read 6 October 2026. Their site lists features under "With dozens more features, like...". |
| Lists the issues it finds by name, such as “Missing H1” | Yes | Not stated | Not claimed or ruled out by their store listing, detailed.com/extension, its changelog or their Firefox page, read 6 October 2026. Their site lists features under "With dozens more features, like...". Their own description is of a readout: "Pull back their title tag, meta description, meta robots tag and much more." |
| Google SERP preview | Yes | Not stated | Not claimed or ruled out by their store listing, detailed.com/extension, its changelog or their Firefox page, read 6 October 2026. Their site lists features under "With dozens more features, like...". |
| Heading structure outline | Yes | Yes | Theirs is indented: "Not only are they indented to show structure, but font sizes change as well." Ours lists the first H1 to H3 in the popup and copies or exports the full H1–H6 outline in page order. |
| Structured data / schema view | Yes | Yes | "View the schema markup for any page that uses it, without having to go directly to any kind of testing tool." |
| Structured data checked for missing required fields | Yes | Not stated | Not claimed or ruled out by their store listing, detailed.com/extension, its changelog or their Firefox page, read 6 October 2026. Their site lists features under "With dozens more features, like...". Their pages describe viewing schema and name no format or check. |
| Core Web Vitals, measured in your browser | Yes | Not stated | Not claimed or ruled out by their store listing, detailed.com/extension, its changelog or their Firefox page, read 6 October 2026. Their site lists features under "With dozens more features, like...". |
| Readability scoring | Yes | Not stated | Not claimed or ruled out by their store listing, detailed.com/extension, its changelog or their Firefox page, read 6 October 2026. Their site lists features under "With dozens more features, like...". |
| Broken link check | Yes | Not stated | Not claimed or ruled out by their store listing, detailed.com/extension, its changelog or their Firefox page, read 6 October 2026. Their site lists features under "With dozens more features, like...". The status codes they name are for hreflang URLs ("View Hreflang status codes from a single page"), and they export "all page links, both complete and incomplete" without saying they test them. |
| Redirect chain, hop by hop | Yes | Not stated | Not claimed or ruled out by their store listing, detailed.com/extension, its changelog or their Firefox page, read 6 October 2026. Their site lists features under "With dozens more features, like...". |
| Hreflang return-tag check | Yes | Yes | Their changelog, July 2023: "check if the other page also references the current one you’re checking." |
| Server HTML compared with the rendered page | Yes | Not stated | Not claimed or ruled out by their store listing, detailed.com/extension, its changelog or their Firefox page, read 6 October 2026. Their site lists features under "With dozens more features, like...". |
| User-agent switcher | Yes | Yes | "Change your user agent to view a site as ‘Googlebot’ and more." Ours reloads the tab with the user agent of Googlebot (desktop or smartphone), Bingbot or iPhone Safari. |
| People Also Ask questions, pulled from Google results | Yes | Yes | "Extract ‘People Also Asked’ from search results in one click", "including multiple levels deep" (changelog, June 2023). |
| Google results as searched from another location | Yes | Not stated | Not claimed or ruled out by their store listing, detailed.com/extension, its changelog or their Firefox page, read 6 October 2026. Their site lists features under "With dozens more features, like...". |
| Free, no sign-in to analyze | Yes | Yes | "It’s 100% free, with regular updates and zero tracking." None of their surfaces mentions an account. |
| Firefox build | No | Yes | Theirs, not ours: v2.2.7 on addons.mozilla.org. A Firefox port is on our roadmap and is not shipped. |
| A large user base on the Chrome Web Store | No | Yes | They show 600,000 users and 233 ratings. Ours showed 6 users and one rating on 6 October 2026. |

## How we checked

Every row above was checked on October 6, 2026 against Detailed SEO Extension’s own Chrome Web Store listing, its landing page at detailed.com/extension and the changelog on that page, and its Firefox add-on page, and against our own extension, version 1.7.1, in the same sitting. User counts and ratings are whatever the Web Store displayed that day.

“Not stated” means exactly that: Detailed SEO Extension's own pages neither claim the capability nor rule it out, and we will not turn that silence into a “No”.

Products change. A comparison page that is right on the day it ships and never re-checked becomes a false claim about someone else's software, so this one carries its date in the open and gets re-verified before every publish rather than left to age.

If something here is wrong or out of date, [tell us](https://seobandwagon.com/contact) and we will fix it.

Sources: [Detailed SEO Extension on the Chrome Web Store](https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/detailed-seo-extension/pfjdepjjfjjahkjfpkcgfmfhmnakjfba) · [their landing page](https://detailed.com/extension/) · checked October 6, 2026.

The SEO Chrome extension: https://seobandwagon.com/seo-chrome-extension

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