The Plain Fetch viewer
In short
The viewer requests a URL the way a plain-fetch agent does: no JavaScript, one request for HTML, one for markdown, one for llms.txt and one for a path that should not exist. It shows the initial HTML on the left, the readable text on the right, and seven flags underneath.
Pre-loaded with www.wikipedia.org, read 4 November 2026. Type any public URL to run your own.
The page answers a plain fetch: 4 of 6 checks found.
Initial HTML what a plain fetch receives
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US" dir="ltr">
<head>
[... 3 more head elements folded ...]
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no">
[... 1 more head element folded ...]
<title>Pay, Send and Save Money with PayPal | PayPal US
</title>
[... 17 more head elements folded ...]
<meta name="description" content="From paying friends to saving money or getting cash back when you shop, explore what the new PayPal app has to offer.">
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.paypal.com/us/home">
[... 5 more head elements folded ...]
<meta name="robots" content="max-image-preview:large" id="robots:max-image-preview">
<meta name="robots" content="max-video-preview:-1" id="robots:max-video-preview">
[... 48 more head elements folded ...]
</head>
<body>
<div id="root">
<div class="document-body-root" data-hosted-by="ppcmsnodeweb" dir="ltr" data-source="0">
<div><!-- [globalnav:fragment:regionalbanner] -->
</div>
<div id="globalnav-header" data-nav-version="rebrand" data-nav-sub-version="v2" data-glnv-source="service">
<div id="shadow-host-header" translate="no" class="glnv-shadow-host notranslate"><template shadowRootMode="open">[... 65,477 characters folded ...]</template>
</div>
</div>
<div style="background-color:#fff" class="document-body" data-testid="document-body-element" role="main"><!--$-->
<section class="hero-homepage-hybrid section-wrapper primary-plate grid paypal60 paypal60-palette grid-compact ppcmsnodeweb-18o9fdc" id="hero-homepage">
<div class="ppcmsnodeweb-1g698zg">
<div class="hero-homepage-hybrid-segment-control">
<nav class="_hero-segment-control-group_1rcd2_1 paypal60" aria-label="Personal and Business page">
<ul>
<li><a href="home" aria-current="page" data-text="Personal" data-pa-click="{"link":"HeroHomepageHybrid-Link--Personal","event_name":"segment_control_tab_clicked"}" class="_hero-segment [... 102 characters folded ...]><span class="_hero-segment-control-tab-text_51rjy_18 body-text-style body-text-size-body">Personal</span></a>
</li>
<li><a href="business" aria-current="false" data-text="Business" data-pa-click="{"link":"HeroHomepageHybrid-Link--Business","event_name":"segment_control_tab_clicked"}" class="_hero-segment-control-tab_51rjy_1 _hero-segment-control-tab-index-2_"><span class="_hero-segment-control-tab-text_51rjy_18 body-text-style body-text-size-body">Business</span></a>
</li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ppcmsnodeweb-qw7tn">
<div class="text-group text-group-alignment-center hero-homepage-hybrid-text-group">
<div>
<h1 class="text-group-headline heading-text-style heading-text-size-headline-3">Shine all season with PayPal
</h1>
</div>
<div>
<p class="text-group-paragraph body-text-style body-text-size-body">Fill your holiday with flexible and rewarding ways to shop and pay.
</p>
</div>
<div class="text-group-content-button-group">
<div class="button-group button-group-align-center button-group-legal-position-bottom text-group-action-group">
<div class="button-group-alignment-center"><a class="button-type-primary button-size-dynamic ppcmsnodeweb-zna116-button_base-text_button_lg" data-ppui-info="buttons_7.4.0" aria-label="Learn More" target="_self" data-pa-click="{"link":"button_cta_cl [... 303 characters folded ...]>Learn More</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ppcmsnodeweb-ltk1x">
<div class="hero-homepage-hybrid-media">
<div class="hero-media-frame has-media-ratio-overrides _media-frame-template-media-ratio-2-3_ _media-frame-template-base-media-ratio-2-3_1qkuu_110 _media-frame-template-md-media-ratio-1-1_1qkuu_207 _media-frame-template- [... 156 characters folded ...]><picture><source type="image/webp" media="(max-width: 41rem)" sizes="100vw" srcSet="https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/web26/oslo/oslo-consumer/mobile_homepage_hero_fifestyle-fullbleed.jpg?quality=40&width=300&format [... 169 characters folded ...]><source type="image/webp" media="(min-width: 41.0625rem) and (max-width: 63.9375rem)" sizes="100vw" srcSet="https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/web26/oslo/oslo-consumer/mobile_homepage_hero_fifestyle-fullbleed.jpg?qu [... 202 characters folded ...]><source type="image/webp" media="(min-width: 64rem)" sizes="100vw" srcSet="https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/web26/oslo/oslo-consumer/desktop_homepage_hero.jpg?quality=40&width=300&format=webp 300w,https:// [... 131 characters folded ...]><img alt="Women holding gifts surrounded by shopping items in a grid of gift boxes" aria-hidden="false" sizes="100vw" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/marketing/web26/oslo/oslo-consumer/mobile_homepage_hero_fifestyle-f [... 350 characters folded ...]></picture>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section><!--/$--><!--$-->
<div class="_hero-homepage-stack-ppe-wrapper_1btgq_27">
<section class="_hero-homepage-stack-ppe_1btgq_2 blue-400-plate section-wrapper accent-1-plate grid paypal60 paypal60-palette grid-compact ppcmsnodeweb-1jp6uj3" id="hero-homepage">
<div class="_hero-homepage-stack-ppe-grid-content_1btgq_122 ppcmsnodeweb-ltk1x" style="--top-content-translate:0vh">
<div class="_hero-homepage-stack-ppe-segment-control-group-wrapper_1btgq_32">
<div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="_hero-homepage-stack-ppe-grid-content_1btgq_122 ppcmsnodeweb-xdvm7e" style="--top-content-translate:0vh">
<div class="_hero-homepage-stack-ppe-text-group-wrapper_1btgq_54">
<div>
<div class="text-group text-group-alignment-center _hero-homepage-stack-ppe-text-group_1btgq_54">
<div>
<h2 class="text-group-headline heading-text-style heading-text-size-headline-3">Pay, send, and save smarter
</h2>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="_hero-homepage-stack-ppe-media-space_1btgq_118 ppcmsnodeweb-1v5kj4r" style="--phone-frame-scale-progress:0;will-change:auto">
</div>
<div class="ppcmsnodeweb-1v5kj4r">
<div class="_hero-homepage-stack-ppe-phone-frame-wrapper_1btgq_90">
<div class="_hero-homepage-stack-ppe-phone-frame_1btgq_90">
<div style="--phone-frame-scale-progress:0;--phone-media-border-radius:1rem" class="_phone-frame_1ojo8_3 blue-400-plate paypal60">
<div class="_phone-frame-logo_1ojo8_14" style="--phone-logo-opacity:1">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 167 56" fill="none" role="presentation" class="_phone-frame-logo-image_1ojo8_26">[... 4,019 characters folded ...]
</svg>
</div>
<div class="_phone-frame-brand-moment_1ojo8_30 brand-moment blue-600-plate grid paypal60 paypal60-palette grid-compact ppcmsnodeweb-idyp3p" componentTemplateName="ct_Brand Moment Section">
<div class="brand-moment-media ppcmsnodeweb-ltk1x">
<div class="brand-moment-media-background" style="will-change:auto;transform:translateY(0%) translateZ(0)">
<div class="image-frame image-frame-no-rounded-corners" style="min-height:100%;min-width:100%">
</div>
<div class="brand-moment-media-background-overlay" style="--media-overlay-opacity:0">
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="brand-moment-content ppcmsnodeweb-1r0nmqj">
<div class="brand-moment-content-wrapper">
<div class="brand-moment-content-text brand-moment-content-sticky" style="min-height:0;will-change:auto;transform:translateX(-200px) translateZ(0)"><span class="brand-moment-content-headline heading-text-style heading-text-size-display-1">pay</span>
</div>
<div class="brand-moment-content-text" style="will-change:auto;transform:translateX(400px) translateZ(0)"><span class="brand-moment-content-headline heading-text-style heading-text-size-display-1">smarter</span>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
</div><!--/$--><!--$-->
<section class="featured-split-section-view primary-plate grid paypal60 paypal60-palette grid-compact ppcmsnodeweb-dywr6a">
<div class="featured-split-section-view-media-container ppcmsnodeweb-5mr7i0" role="img" aria-label="Hands holding a phone showing different PayPal payment methods in a digital wallet">
<div class="image-parallax-frame image-parallax-frame-outer image-parallax-frame-rounded-corners" componentType="Image" componentTemplateName="cf_Image Rebrand" target="_self">
<div style="height:135%;transform:translateY(-25%) scale(1) translateZ(0)" class="image-parallax-frame-inner">
<div class="image-frame image-frame-no-rounded-corners motion-wrapper" style="min-height:100%;min-width:100%;opacity:0;transform:translateX(0rem) translateY(0rem) scale(1.1) translateZ(0)">
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="featured-split-section-view-text-container ppcmsnodeweb-1wsztlo">
<div class="featured-split-section-view-text-parallax-frame" style="transform:translateY(40px) translateZ(0)">
<div class="text-group text-group-alignment-start motion-wrapper" style="opacity:0;transform:translateX(0.75px) translateY(0.75px) scale(1) translateZ(0)">
<div class="motion-wrapper" style="opacity:0;transform:translateX(0.75rem) translateY(0.75rem) scale(1) translateZ(0)">
<h2 class="text-group-headline heading-text-style heading-text-size-headline-4">Shop in stores and online
</h2>
</div>
Shown with 160 long blocks (scripts, styles, long tags) folded into a marker that says how many characters they hide; line breaks added before block tags because the source is minified; the pane stops after the first 200 words; the page is 354 KB.
Reading view the text a plain-fetch client can extract
title: Pay, Send and Save Money with PayPal | PayPal US
Shine all season with PayPal
Personal Business Shine all season with PayPal Fill your holiday with flexible and rewarding ways to shop and pay. Learn More Pay, send, and save smarter pay smarter Shop in stores and online Tap to pay in stores with the PayPal Debit Card1 and earn rewards2 online with PayPal checkout. Get rewards from the brands you love Adidas Sony Instacart 1-800 flowers.com Origins Nobull Ticketmaster 01234567%back Get hundreds of offers.2 Browse Offers Check offers for details. Terms and exclusions apply . +012345%back Also get 5% on purchases in your monthly category3 when you check out with your PayPal Debit Card. Get the Debit Card Rewards earned on up to $1000 of selected category spend per month. Rewards earned as points can be redeemed for cash or other options. Terms apply . Apparel Restaurants Rideshare and Public Transit Groceries Fuel Pay now or pay over time. It’s your choice. Pay in 4 interest-free payments Paid every two weeks. No late fees. Won't affect your credit score to apply.4 Learn About Pay in 4 Pay Monthly in 3, 6, 12, or 24 payments With $0 down. No sign-up fees or late fees.5 Learn About Pay Monthly Pay Monthly in store5 Buy an
1331 more words follow in the initial HTML.
| Check | Result | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| H1 in the initial HTML | Found one H1 | First H1: Shine all season with PayPal |
| First 200 words in the initial HTML | Found 200 of 200 words | The initial HTML carries 1531 words of visible text; the first 200 are marked in the left pane. |
| llms.txt present and linked | Note present, not linked | 40103 bytes, 151 links. Structure grade B (5 of 6). Nothing on the home page points to it. Ora's lab found 86 percent of llms.txt fetches arrived through a link. |
| Markdown on request | Missing 200 text/html | Accept: text/markdown returned 200 with text/html; charset=utf-8. The server ignores the header. |
| Status of a made-up path | Found 404 | /agent-ready-html-missing-path-check returned 404: a real status code for a missing page. |
| JSON-LD types | Found Corporation, CreditCard, FinancialProduct, ImageObject and 9 more | 13 schema.org types in JSON-LD blocks on the home page: Corporation, CreditCard, FinancialProduct, ImageObject, LoanOrCredit, MobileApplication, Offer, Organization, PaymentCard, Service, SoftwareApplication, WebPage, WebSite. |
| OpenAPI link | Note none on the home page | No OpenAPI link on the home page. It matters only for a site that ships an API. |
Run the full check
The viewer read one page with four requests. The full check we recommend next is Ora's scan. Its Access layer runs 42 checks worth 30 of its 100 points, among them content without JavaScript, bot detection, llms.txt, markdown on request, JSON-LD and the sitemap (Ora's check catalogue, contract 1.38.0, read 5 November 2026). Open Ora's report for paypal.com.
Limits: Ora reads public URLs only, says two runs of one scan land within a couple of points without publishing repeat-scan data, and keeps the product that fixes what it finds behind a waitlist. Cloudflare's scanner at isitagentready.com is a quick free alternative, and Mintlify's score covers documentation.
What the viewer does
It sends four plain GET requests with the user agent Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; agent-readiness-crawl/1.0): the URL itself, the same URL with Accept: text/markdown, /llms.txt on the same host, and a made-up path at the root. It runs no JavaScript. The left pane is the first bytes of the HTML as text, with long scripts and styles folded into a marker that says how many characters they hide. The H1 and the first 200 words of visible text are marked in both panes. The flags under the panes say what the four responses added up to.
Limits
- Ten seconds for all four requests together, 1.5 MB read from the home page, at most five redirects, each one checked again.
- http and https only, default ports only. Private, local and internal addresses and names are refused.
- Ten runs per address per minute. The counter lives in memory on the edge function, so it is per instance rather than global. Past ten you get a 429 with a Retry-After header.
- Results are cached for 24 hours by the response headers. Nothing is written to a database: the viewer keeps the first 200 words and the extracted fields for the length of the request and keeps no page body beyond that.
What it does not tell you
A plain fetch from this server is not a real agent. Bot protection weighs the source address more than the user agent, so a page that answers 200 here can still refuse an agent, and the reverse. Ora's lab found (2026-10-19) that returning 403 to agent user agents and hiding the answer in JavaScript were the only two of 19 configurations that stopped retrieval; the viewer can see the second, and can only hint at the first. The initial HTML reference covers both. The server logs and the published crawler address ranges settle the first.
The seven flags
- H1 in the initial HTML
- Whether the HTML the server sends already contains an H1. It is the cheapest sign that the page does not depend on scripts to say what it is.
- First 200 words in the initial HTML
- Whether at least 200 words of visible text arrive in the initial HTML. Under 40 words with an app root element is flagged as a JavaScript shell.
- llms.txt present and linked
- Whether /llms.txt answers with a plain-text file, whether the home page links it (an anchor, a link element or a Link header), and the structure grade the index uses.
- Markdown on request
- Whether a request with Accept: text/markdown comes back as text/markdown. Cloudflare Radar found 3.9 percent of scanned top sites passing this at its April 2026 launch.
- Status of a made-up path
- Whether a path that should not exist returns 404 or 410. A 200 is a soft 404 and reads as a live page.
- JSON-LD types
- The schema.org types found in JSON-LD blocks on the page. Ora's lab found JSON-LD made no difference when the answer was already in the HTML.
- OpenAPI link
- Whether the page links an OpenAPI file, by an anchor or a service-desc link relation. It matters only for a site that ships an API.
Sources
- Ora: AgentReady launch post (Ora's lab findings) https://ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch, read 4 November 2026
- Ora check catalogue, contract 1.38.0 (132 checks, 42 in the Access layer) https://ora.ai/api/checks, read 5 November 2026
- Ora home page (the fixing product is behind a waitlist) https://ora.ai/, read 5 November 2026
- Ora: Introducing Deep Scan (repeat scans) https://ora.ai/blog/introducing-deep-scan, read 5 November 2026
- Ora llms.txt (public URLs only) https://ora.ai/llms.txt, read 5 November 2026
- Vercel: Make your site readable by AI agents https://vercel.com/kb/guide/make-your-site-readable-by-ai-agents, read 4 November 2026
- llms.txt proposal (llmstxt.org) https://llmstxt.org/, read 4 November 2026
Last reviewed 5 November 2026