diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index ce525cb..df06112 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -9,10 +9,20 @@ install:
   - docker build -t php .
   - docker run -d -p 127.0.0.1:80:80 --name nginx-php-fpm php
 
+before_script:
+  - pip install -r requirements.txt
+  - pip install mock
+  - pip install requests
+  - pip install feedparser
+  - pip install coverage
+  - pip install coveralls
+
 script:
   - docker ps
   - sleep 5
   - curl -I 127.0.0.1:80
+  - python tests.py
+  - coverage run tests.py
 
 notifications:
   slack: ngineered:EIKJFrzibOe0TwUhLXNe8Q2Q
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ddd431
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+jinja2
+PyYaml
+mistune
+markdown
+pygments
diff --git a/tests.py b/tests.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3e4fee0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests.py
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+''' test runner '''
+
+import unittest
+import sys
+
+def run_functional_tests():
+    ''' Execute Functional Tests '''
+    tests = unittest.TestLoader().discover('tests/functional')
+    result = unittest.TextTestRunner(verbosity=2).run(tests)
+    return result.wasSuccessful()
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+
+    print "#" * 70
+    print "Test Runner: Functional tests"
+    print "#" * 70
+    functional_results = run_functional_tests()
+
+    if functional_results:
+        sys.exit(0)
+    else:
+        sys.exit(1)
diff --git a/tests/functional/test_content.py b/tests/functional/test_content.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..769f491
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/functional/test_content.py
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+''' Crawl site and validate every page renders somewhat correctly '''
+import unittest
+import re
+import requests
+
+class ContentTest(unittest.TestCase):
+    ''' Run a functional test to validate content being served '''
+
+    def setUp(self):
+        ''' Create some starter data to be used in tests '''
+        self.domain = "http://127.0.0.1"
+        self.search_string = "Version"
+
+    def tearDown(self):
+        ''' Destroy starter data '''
+        self.domain = None
+        self.search_string = "None"
+
+    def request_recurse(self, url, requested=None):
+        ''' recursively request each page checking the return code and urls '''
+        counts = {
+            'pass' : 0,
+            'fail' : 0,
+        }
+        if requested is None:
+            requested = []
+        if url in requested:
+            return counts, requested
+        else:
+            requested.append(url)
+        url = self.domain + url
+        results = requests.get(url, allow_redirects=True, verify=False)
+        if self.search_string in results.text:
+            counts['pass'] = counts['pass'] + 1
+        else:
+            counts['fail'] = counts['fail'] + 1
+        urls = re.findall(
+            'href="/(?:[a-zA-Z]|[0-9]|[$-_@.&+]|[!*\(\),]|(?:%[0-9a-fA-F][0-9a-fA-F]))+',
+            results.text
+        )
+        for url in urls:
+            url = url.lstrip('href="')
+            if "/static/" not in url:
+                if "//" not in url:
+                    results, requested = self.request_recurse(url, requested=requested)
+                    # Add counts for status codes
+                    for key in results.keys():
+                        if key in counts:
+                            counts[key] = counts[key] + results[key]
+                        else:
+                            counts[key] = results[key]
+        return counts, requested
+
+class CrawlSite(ContentTest):
+    ''' Verify no broken links are present within blog '''
+    def runTest(self):
+        ''' Execute recursive request '''
+        results, requested_pages = self.request_recurse("/")
+        self.assertFalse(
+            results['fail'] > 0,
+            "Found {0} pages that did not return keyword".format(results['fail'])
+        )