SEO UTILITIES
Spider Simulator — See Your Page as a Crawler Does
See a page roughly the way a search engine crawler reads it: extracted text, links, headings, and meta tags — minus the styling and scripts. Free tool.
Search engines don't see your page the way a visitor does — they read the underlying HTML: text, links, headings, and meta tags, stripped of layout. This simulator fetches a URL and shows that crawler's-eye view, so you can check what's actually available to be indexed.
What the output is telling you
- Missing body text: if content you can see in the browser isn't here, it's likely injected by JavaScript and absent from the server's HTML — a warning that some crawlers won't find it either.
- The link list: this is what a crawler could discover from this page. Important pages that don't appear are poorly linked and harder to find.
- The heading structure: aim for a single clear H1 and a logical H1-to-H6 hierarchy. An empty or jumbled structure means search engines get a weak signal about what the page is about.
How to use it
- Enter the URL you want to inspect.
- The tool fetches the raw HTML and extracts text, links, headings, and meta tags.
- Compare this view against your rendered page to spot content that's missing or buried.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this exactly how Googlebot sees my page?
- It's a close approximation of the raw-HTML view. Modern Googlebot can render JavaScript in a second pass and may ultimately see more — but the initial fetch is what this simulates, and depending on rendering is riskier than server-side content.
- Why does the simulator show less than my page?
- Because content injected after load by JavaScript isn't in the HTML the server returns, which is what this reads. Gaps here are a real signal, not a bug in the tool.