Check How Search Engines See Your Website

by Daniel Scocco

Ever wondered how Google and its pals see your website? There is a little tool called SEO Browser that can help you here. Basically you just need to type your URL and it will display the information that search engines see when they crawl your site.

This can be useful to see what elements are not being considered, in what order your content and links appear and so on. They also have an advanced analysis mode where you will be able to see several SEO factors from your site, including meta tags, page size, load time, text to page weight ratio and more.

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27 Responses to “Check How Search Engines See Your Website”

Eli on March 8, 2008 5:41 am

Quite an interesting tool. After I checked out my site I decided to go and refine the meta description and keywords, since they were a little bulky at the time.

One thing I’d like to know though, what’s the text to page weight ratio? Mine seems to be a considerable amount lower than yours, and I’m not sure if I should be worried about that.
Daniel Scocco on March 8, 2008 6:24 am

Eli, the page weight is the total size of your page. For the DBT homepage it should be around 39KB. You could also consider the HTML weight only, which is smaller (for DBT homepage it is around 26KB).

Out of that total weight one can calculate what percentage is coming from text, which is the first factor that search engines will consider on websites.

If you them divide the text weight over the total page weight you get that ratio.
simon on March 8, 2008 7:06 am

nice find there, i going post an article about it too
Not John on March 8, 2008 7:12 am

Nice tool to see what info is considered without the distractions of the graphics and other design elements.
Bilingual Blogger on March 8, 2008 7:32 am

Thanks for the tip but when I put my URL through this SEO-browser, it said that my blog doesn’t have any meta words and no meta data. How can this be? I tag every entry I make on the blog but I guess these are different tags for the overall web site? Can someone tell me where I’m supposed to put these meta words? I use WordPress. Thanks.
Daniel Scocco on March 8, 2008 7:57 am

@Bilingual Blogger, meta tags and metadata is found on the header of your website.

We wrote a comprehensive guide about meta tags some time ago, you can find it here:

http://www.dailyblogtips.com/the-bloggers-guide-to-meta-tags/
ITrush on March 8, 2008 8:03 am

Very informative. Stumbled and Bookmarked.

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http://www.itrush.com
Jeremy Steele on March 8, 2008 9:34 am

it displayed everything exactly how I thought it would (tests site designs in text-based web browsers). Nice find though.
OldSailor on March 8, 2008 11:43 am

Very useful tip. It is like seeing your blog in a mirror.
The Masked Millionaire on March 8, 2008 12:46 pm

Too cool. It is really worth reading this blog. Most blogs just repeat and rehash the same old stuff. But I never fail to learn something from this blog. Thanks so much.
amelia on March 9, 2008 7:42 pm

can locate not found pages
abeel on March 11, 2008 10:30 am

very very useful tip
when I put my URL through this SEO-browser, it said that my blog doesn’t have any meta words and no meta data.
anyway thanks
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WeddingPlanning on September 25, 2008 12:04 am

Very useful tool. Might need someone to interpret the results, but very helpful nonetheless.
ccna4exam on November 3, 2008 1:51 pm

Nice Tools. I just check my meta data. Its too bulk.
vitalij on November 11, 2008 5:59 pm

Interesting tool. I will say about it for all my friends. I think they would like it
medyum on July 12, 2009 6:28 am

very good… thanks