Those of you that regularly audit websites know there are various things you need to check all the time. This can get a little tedious and time consuming. In order to make this a little easier we built a tool to help speed up one of those processes, looking at the text-only cached version of a web page.
Below is a JavaScript bookmarklet for Chrome. What it does is when you are on a page and hit the bookmarklet, it takes you to a text-only version of that page in Google’s cache. This should save some time and remove some tedium from your SEO audits.
In order to install the bookmarklet simply drag the link below labeled “Text-Only Cache” to your bookmark bar and you are good to go!
Text-Only Cache
Kudos to Mike Duran-Mitchell for taking a few minutes out of his busy link building schedule to write some JavaScript.
9 Response Comments
thanks mate added to browser and using
Thanks for sharing. Level of pain has been reduced already.
Great to hear guys, thanks!
Apparently you read my mind. Colan and I were literally talking about how to do this today. This bookmark is way faster than my other method. Awesome!
Thanks Joy. It’s true, I am a notorious mindreader.
Cool little extension – saves going to the serps and checking cache (and cache date) from there – thanks Dan and Mike Duran-Mitchell 🙂
Really good tool and time-saving! Just tried and work like a charm. With that tool, I can easily see the content of a website and analyze in a breeze. Thanks Dan and Mike!
Why this is important to check the google text only version? What should be check? What is the standard?
You can get a sense of whether or not Google can index the content of a page