Safi Site Audit

Safi Site Audit is an Obsidian plugin that runs website audits without leaving your vault. It crawls a site, scores it across SEO, content, links, images, structured data, security and crawlability, and shows the results in a built-in dashboard with an overall score, category breakdowns and per-page issues. Every audit is saved as a Markdown note, so the findings sit next to your own research and notes.

Site audits usually live in separate tools, so the results never sit next to the notes and research they inform. Two things made building this inside Obsidian harder than a normal web app. The dashboard had to render a rich, theme-aware UI without fighting Obsidian's own styling, and the crawler calls fetch directly with manual redirects, which Obsidian's renderer blocks under CORS for cross-origin sites.

The dashboard is built with Svelte 5 and hand-written CSS scoped to the plugin, using Obsidian's own theme variables so it follows the user's light, dark and accent theme. It wraps the Safi-Studio-Scanner engine, bundled into a single file with esbuild. During an audit the plugin swaps the global fetch for a shim backed by Obsidian's requestUrl, which bypasses CORS, then restores it. Each audit is saved as a self-contained Markdown note that reads well on its own and also carries the full report data, so the dashboard can show the rich view without re-crawling. PageSpeed Insights can be added with an API key for Core Web Vitals and accessibility checks.