Search Spider

See what a search spider sees when it crawls your page.
What is Search Spider?
Search Spider is a Chrome extension that provides a clear view of what search engines see when crawling your website. It highlights headings, content, alt-tags, and links, making it easy for designers and end-users to understand. You can save the output as a PDF and share it with clients for review. It also includes an overview of title, meta description, headings, and word count.

Extension stats

Users: 128 ▲ 13
Rating: 5.00 (2)
Version: 2.1.4 (Last updated: 2024-01-12)
Creation date: 2023-04-07
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • scripting
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 556.03K

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Extension summary

Get a clear, at-a-glance view of what Google and other search engines see when they crawl your website.

Search Spider strips away images, scripts, bells and whistles to lay bare the basic underlying page structure and semantic design.

It highlights and itemizes headings, meta-descriptions, content, alt-tags, tracking scripts, links and more in a way that makes instant sense to designers and end-users.

Clean and simple overview of page content highlights problem-areas with a quick scroll. Output can be saved as a PDF and sent to a client for review.

Includes at a glance overview of:

  • Title
  • Meta Description
  • Breakdown of H1, H2, H3 and H4 headings
  • Word-count

User reviews

This little tool is so useful, I basically consider it one of my close friends. I now have over five friends. Candy Crush II™ is also one of my friends. Ok, I kindof have no real friends. I'm super depressed right now.
by David Michels, 2024-01-13

Use it all the time to get a quick sense of what's going on with on-page SEO.
by Jonathan Michaels, 2023-10-05
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Search Spider requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Search Spider has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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