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Bot Viewer

Our server fetches the page and this view strips styling, scripts and images — fetched and rendered as text, the way a bot reads it on its first pass. JavaScript is not executed.

Fetch any public page and read it the way a search bot does: title, meta tags, heading outline, plain text and links — no styling, no scripts, no images.

UNDERSTAND YOUR RESULTS

Bot Viewer — See Any Page the Way a Search Bot Reads It guide

Fetch any public page and read it the way a search bot does: title, meta tags, heading outline, plain text and links — no styling, no scripts, no images.

How to use this tool

  1. Enter the full URL of the page you want to inspect and choose View as bot. Our server fetches the page for you, so it also works for pages your browser cannot open directly.
  2. Start with the summary card: the final URL after redirects, the HTTP status, and the title, description, robots directive and canonical the page declares.
  3. Read the heading outline (H1–H3) to check the page’s structure, then scan the plain-text view — this is the content a crawler actually reads.
  4. Finish with the link lists: internal and external counts, and every link target with its anchor text, so you can spot links a bot would follow — or miss.

A worked example

Point the viewer at a typical product page and the gap between the designed page and the bot’s page is immediate: the hero image, sliders and pop-ups vanish, and what remains is one H1, a short paragraph and a footer of links. If the meaningful copy only appears inside images or scripts, the bot view shows that instantly — the text section will be nearly empty.

How it works

Our server requests the URL, follows redirects safely, and returns the HTML. Your browser then strips scripts, styles and other non-content elements and lays out what is left as plain text, mirroring how a crawler’s first pass reads a page before any rendering. Headings, meta tags and links are extracted from the same HTML. The fetch is protected like our other tools: only public addresses are requested, redirects are re-validated at every hop, and page bodies are capped at about 1 MB.

Frequently asked questions

How is this different from viewing a page in my browser?

Your browser applies the design, runs the scripts and loads the images. The bot view removes all of that and shows only the underlying document: its text, headings, meta tags and links.

Does the viewer pretend to be Googlebot?

No. The fetch identifies our own tooling honestly. Some sites serve different content to different visitors, which is one reason the view is labelled an approximation of a generic bot’s first pass.

Why is the text empty or very short?

Usually because the page builds its content with JavaScript, shows a consent or bot-check screen to servers, or puts its copy inside images. Each cause needs a different fix — start by checking the raw HTML.

What do internal and external links mean here?

Internal links point to the same host as the page (www and non-www count as the same); external links point anywhere else. Links a bot cannot find in the HTML are links it cannot follow.

Can I view pages behind a login?

No — only public pages. The server fetches without cookies or accounts, exactly like an anonymous crawler.