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See what a search engine reads on your page.

Paste the address of your link page or your website. We’ll read it once, the way a search engine does, and show you what comes through, what doesn’t, and what a Portage page would carry instead.

Page check

lakeshorebakery.example

6of 11read well

  • Your nameReads well

    Its title and its main heading both name it.

  • Where and whenCould read better

    Its data says it’s a bakery, but it has no opening hours.

  • Words without a scriptCould read better

    Only 9 words are in the page as it arrives.

  • AI answer enginesReads well

    Its robots.txt lets the AI answer engines we know of read it.

An example report, for a made-up bakery

What we look at

Twelve things a search engine or an AI answer engine reads first, each in plain words.

  1. Your nameThe page’s title and main heading, which a results page shows in big type.
  2. The line under itThe description a results page shows under your name.
  3. What the page says it isStructured data that says plainly who the page is about.
  4. Your profilesWhether the page says your Instagram, TikTok and the rest are yours.
  5. Where and whenAn address, opening hours and a phone number, for a place people visit.
  6. Words without a scriptWhether your words are in the page itself, or only appear once a script runs.
  7. Open to search enginesAnything that asks Google or Bing to leave the page out.
  8. AI answer enginesWhich AI answer engines its robots.txt lets in, and whether it asks AI training crawlers to stay away.
  9. Broken linksUp to ten of its links, asked whether they still go somewhere.
  10. A card when it’s sharedThe picture and title an app shows when somebody shares the page.
  11. Made for a phoneWhether it tells a phone to fit the page to its screen.
  12. WeightHow much a phone has to download before it can show the page.

How we read it

  • Once, and politely

    We read the page one time, as PortageCheck, after asking its robots.txt. If the site says no, we stop there and show you what that file tells search engines.

  • Without running its scripts

    That’s how many crawlers see a page. If your words only appear after a script runs, the check says so, because some readers never see them.

  • Nothing kept

    We throw the page away once the report is made and don’t log its address. A report is remembered for ten minutes, so checking the same page twice doesn’t read it twice.

What PortageCheck reads, and how to turn it away

Questions

Is it really free?

Yes. Anybody can check any public page, a few times an hour, with nothing to sign up for.

Do you keep the page I check?

No. We read it once to make the report and throw it away, and we don’t log its address. The report is remembered for ten minutes, so a second check of the same page doesn’t read it again, and then it’s gone.

Why can’t you read some link pages?

Some sites ask programs like ours not to read their pages, in a file called robots.txt, and we always do as it says. We still show you what that file tells search engines and AI crawlers. To bring a page like that to Portage, copy it from your own browser and paste it when you start.

Will fixing these get me more visitors?

Nobody can promise a place in search results or a mention in an AI answer, so we don’t. The check shows what a search engine has to work with, which is the part you can do something about.

What does a Portage page do differently?

Every Portage page sends its words in the page itself, says in its data who it’s about, lists your profiles as yours once they link back, and has its links checked every week. It’s free, and so is every feature.

How do I stop your checker reading my site?

Add a group for PortageCheck to your robots.txt with “Disallow: /”. Our page about the programs we send has the exact lines.