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Right-Click SEO Shortcuts: What Each One Opens

The context menu is the small list that appears when you right-click a web page. Scalpel SEO adds a short set of shortcuts to it, so you can jump straight from the page to its analysis, its robots.txt, its sitemap, or an external check such as PageSpeed Insights, the Rich Results Test, or the Wayback Machine. You can turn each shortcut on or off in the extension's settings, so the menu only holds the ones you use.

extension: Scalpel SEOupdated: 2026-08-14read_time: 2 min
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Why it matters

Most on-page SEO checks start from the page you're looking at. Right-click shortcuts save time by letting you jump to that page's own files and audit tools without typing URLs by hand or opening new tabs to navigation menus. On a page you want to audit, a single right-click gets you to robots.txt, the sitemap, or a third-party check like PageSpeed in one click.

How it works

When you install Scalpel SEO, it adds a context menu to your browser. You access it by right-clicking any normal web page (not on extension pages or the browser UI). A small menu appears with options like "Analyse this page with Scalpel SEO," "View robots.txt," "View sitemap," and links to external tools.

Each shortcut works differently:

  • Analyse this page: opens Scalpel SEO's full analysis for the page you're on, right here in the extension.
  • View robots.txt: fetches and displays the robots.txt file from the same domain, so you can see if the current page is blocked from crawling.
  • View sitemap: fetches and displays the XML sitemap from the domain's root, so you can see which pages are listed.
  • PageSpeed Insights: opens Google's PageSpeed tool in a new tab for the current URL.
  • Rich Results Test: opens Google's Rich Results Test for the current URL, so you can check for structured data eligibility.
  • Wayback Machine: opens the current URL in archive.org, so you can see the page's history.

You control which shortcuts appear in the context menu. Open the extension settings (the Tools tab), and toggle each shortcut on or off. This keeps the menu tidy; if you never use Wayback, switch it off so the menu is shorter to scan.

What does not matter

The shortcuts only appear on standard http and https pages. They won't show on about:, chrome://, or pages served from browser extensions. This is by design: those pages don't have a robots.txt or sitemap, and the shortcuts wouldn't make sense there. Also, if a page doesn't have a sitemap or robots.txt, the shortcut still appears, but it either shows a 404 or an empty response. That's honest feedback that the file doesn't exist.

Code example

// Scalpel SEO's context menu is registered in the background script.
// Example of how Chrome handles this (not actual Scalpel code):

chrome.contextMenus.create({
  id: "analyse-page",
  title: "Analyse this page with Scalpel SEO",
  contexts: ["page"],
  documentUrlPatterns: ["http://*/*", "https://*/*"]
});

chrome.contextMenus.onClicked.addListener((info, tab) => {
  if (info.menuItemId === "analyse-page") {
    // Open the analysis for this tab
    chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tab.id, { action: "analyseThisPage" });
  }
});

How Scalpel SEO shows it

Right-click any normal web page. A Scalpel SEO submenu appears with the shortcuts you've enabled in settings. Click any shortcut. The action happens instantly. The analysis and robots.txt/sitemap viewers open in-extension; PageSpeed, Rich Results, and Wayback open in a new tab. To control which shortcuts appear, open Scalpel SEO, click the Tools tab, and toggle each item on or off.

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