View Page Source: Any URL, Formatted & Searchable

This viewer shows the HTML the server sent, with line numbers down the side and a search box that highlights matches. Many sites serve minified HTML — a whole page on a few lines — so we put each tag on its own line; the content stays exactly the same. It also works on phones and tablets, where browsers hide the view-source option.

Copy the whole document or download it as source.html to diff against another version.

Above the source, we list the tags that matter for search and the line each one starts on: title, meta description, meta robots, canonical, hreflang, og:title, og:image, twitter:card, viewport and JSON-LD blocks. If a tag says "not found", it isn't in the raw HTML.

Most big sites have the basics in place. In our October 2026 analysis of 315 homepages (dataset), 94.3% had a canonical tag, 98.4% had a title and 74% had at least one JSON-LD block.

View source is what the server sent; inspect element is the page after JavaScript has changed it. Search engines and AI crawlers start from the source. Googlebot renders JavaScript later, but Google recommends keeping important content in the initial HTML, and many AI crawlers never run JavaScript at all.

If your main text, links or structured data appear only in "inspect element", crawlers may not see them.

Start with the head, then check that the body actually contains your content:

1. One title and one meta description, matching what you expect in search.
2. A canonical pointing to the URL you want indexed.
3. No stray noindex in a robots meta tag.
4. JSON-LD that parses — test it in the schema validator.
5. Your main text in the body, not just an empty app shell.

To compare what Googlebot receives with what a browser receives, use the Googlebot simulator. For the rendered version Google itself sees, run the URL Inspection tool in Search Console.