Search Engine Spider Simulator

Enter a URL to see what a basic text-only crawler would extract from it: visible text, title, meta description, and links found.

Fetches the live page from our server and strips it down the way a basic crawler would — this is an approximation, not a full rendering-eligibility audit.

About this tool

This tool fetches a page's raw HTML and strips out scripts, styles and hidden elements to approximate what a basic, text-only crawler would see, alongside the title and meta description it would use for a search result snippet, and the links it would find to follow next. It approximates how a simple crawler reads visible text from markup — it does not execute JavaScript, load additional resources, or reproduce the eligibility checks a real search engine runs before indexing a page.

How to use it

  1. Enter the URL of the page you want to inspect.
  2. Click "Simulate crawl" and wait while the page is fetched and parsed.
  3. Check the title and meta description a crawler would read.
  4. Scroll the extracted text block to see what content is visible without JavaScript.
  5. Review the list of links found on the page.

Tip: if important content is missing from the extracted text, it may be injected client-side by JavaScript after the initial page load — worth checking whether that content is available to crawlers that don't render JavaScript.

Does this simulate Googlebot specifically?

No. Modern Googlebot generally renders JavaScript before indexing. This tool approximates a much simpler, text-only crawler that only reads the raw HTML response — useful for understanding your content's baseline, but not a direct stand-in for Google's actual crawler behavior.

Why is some of my page's content missing from the extracted text?

Content that's inserted by client-side JavaScript after the page loads won't appear in the raw HTML this tool reads. Content hidden with CSS (display:none) is also excluded, since a text-only reading of the page wouldn't surface it either.

Why is the extracted text truncated?

The preview is capped at the first 5,000 characters to keep the tool fast and readable. A note appears if the full page's visible text is longer than what's shown.

What should I check the link list for?

It's useful for confirming that important internal links are actually present as real <a> tags in the HTML rather than only reachable through JavaScript-driven navigation, since a crawler that doesn't execute scripts would only find the former.