How the Visibility Checker works

Try it: Run the free Visibility Checker → — no signup, no email, results in ~5 seconds.

Overview

The Visibility Checker tells you in about 5 seconds whether AI and search bots can actually see your site. We give one of three honest answers: needs RenderBeam, already discoverable, or discoverable with a few gaps.

What we fetch

From our server we fetch your URL twice in parallel:

1. With a normal browser-like user-agent.
2. With the official Googlebot user-agent.

Both fetches: 8s timeout, 3MB body limit, up to 3 redirects, no JavaScript.

The Googlebot pass detects setups that already serve pre-rendered HTML to Googlebot (dynamic rendering, SSR, existing prerender services). If you've already solved this, we won't recommend RenderBeam.

What we measure

• Visible text length and word count (after stripping