Webpage Spider Viewer Tool

Ever wondered how search engines see your website? The Webpage Spider Viewer Tool helps you unveil the hidden world of search engine crawlers, revealing how they interpret your content.

This free tool lets you peek behind the curtain and see your website through the eyes of a search engine spider. Analyze the textual content, keywords, and structure that search engines use to rank your pages.

Identify potential SEO issues before they affect your search visibility. Optimize your website for better crawling and indexing, and take control of your search engine ranking potential. Try the Webpage Spider Viewer Tool today and see your website in a whole new light!

Enter website URL

Website URL

Keyword Highlighted in the page text

Our server loads the page for you, like a search engine would, and sends back the text and details. The page is not saved. Only public websites can be viewed, and JavaScript is not run.

How to use it

The spider viewer is a webtool that will show you how a search engine robot will see your site.

Enter the siteEnter the website that you would like to view.
Add a keywordYou can optionally enter a keyword that will be highlighted in the viewer.
View as spiderClick on ‘View as spider’ and wait for the webpage to load.
Read the reportCheck the quick checks, the details a spider reads first, the headings, and the page text.

What to look for

Is your text there?

If an important sentence is missing from the page text, a spider may not be able to read it. Text added by JavaScript or placed in images is the usual cause.

Do the headings make sense?

Read the headings on their own. They should outline the page, with one main H1 heading.

Check the robots lines

A noindex or nofollow in the meta robots or X-Robots-Tag line tells spiders to skip the page or its links.

Frequently asked questions

Is this exactly what Google sees?

It is a good guide, not an exact copy. This tool reads the raw page the way a basic spider would. Large search engines can also run JavaScript and read more, so treat missing text as something to check, not proof it is invisible.

Why is some of my page text missing?

Text that is added by JavaScript after the page loads, or that is part of an image, is not in the page the server sends, so it does not show here. Scripts, styles and hidden code are also left out on purpose.

Why does it say the address is not allowed?

Only public websites on the standard web ports can be viewed. Addresses for private networks, localhost and similar are blocked, and so are links that are not http or https. This keeps the tool safe to offer to everyone.

Does it follow redirects?

Yes, up to five. The report shows the final address and lists the redirects it followed.

Does it check robots.txt?

No. It loads the one page you enter, as a visitor would. It does show the page’s own robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag header, which control indexing.

Is anything stored?

The address you enter is sent to our server, which loads the page and returns the result to your browser. The tool does not save the page.