Audit rules
Plain Text Email Addresses
Editorial: email addresses appear in the visible text or in mailto: links, where address harvesters can collect them. Addresses are reported with the local part masked. In a QuikSEO audit, a failure has info severity and counts against the score. The exact condition, its exceptions and its sources follow below.
editorial.emailsInfo01 — Definition
How This Rule Is Checked
The rule is a pure function of the fetched page: no extra requests, no account settings. The same input always gives the same result.
Rule Severity and Score
- Rule id
editorial.emails- Group
- Editorial
- Severity of a failure
- Info
- Counts in the score
- Yes, whenever it applies to the page
- Required for a score
- No
- Replaces the check
emails
Condition and Exceptions
- Condition
- Plain-text email addresses in visible text or mailto: → fail (info) with count (addresses are not echoed in full: mask the local part)
- Exceptions
- —
Sources
- Sources
- No authoritative document covers this check: it is a project decision (see the decision below and the source register).
02 — Editorial
Other Rules in This Group
The other checks of the same group, each with its own condition and sources.
- SEO Friendly URLeditorial.friendly_url
- Text to HTML Ratioeditorial.text_to_html_ratio
- Word Counteditorial.word_count
- Most Used Wordseditorial.words_used