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 xmlns:og="http://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/" xmlns:fb="http://www.facebook.com/2008/fbml" lang="en-US" class="region-default">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8"/>
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge,chrome=1">
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
[... 19 more head elements folded ...]
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Website Builder – Easily Create Your Own Website — Squarespace
</title>
<meta http-equiv="Accept-CH" content="Sec-CH-UA-Platform-Version, Sec-CH-UA-Model" />
[... 2 more head elements folded ...]
<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.squarespace.com"/>
[... 16 more head elements folded ...]
<meta name="description" content="Create a website and grow your business with a free Squarespace trial. Start with customizable website templates, AI website builder tools, or a domain name." />
[... 35 more head elements folded ...]
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.squarespace.com/" hreflang="x-default" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.squarespace.com/" hreflang="en-us" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.squarespace.com/" hreflang="en-ca" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.squarespace.com/" hreflang="en-gb" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.squarespace.com/" hreflang="en-au" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.squarespace.com/" hreflang="en-nz" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://www.squarespace.com/" hreflang="en" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://es.squarespace.com/" hreflang="es-es" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://es.squarespace.com/" hreflang="es-mx" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://es.squarespace.com/" hreflang="es" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://fr.squarespace.com/" hreflang="fr-fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://fr.squarespace.com/" hreflang="fr-ca" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://fr.squarespace.com/" hreflang="fr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://de.squarespace.com/" hreflang="de-de" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://de.squarespace.com/" hreflang="de" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://pt.squarespace.com/" hreflang="pt-pt" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://pt.squarespace.com/" hreflang="pt-br" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://pt.squarespace.com/" hreflang="pt" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://it.squarespace.com/" hreflang="it-it" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://it.squarespace.com/" hreflang="it" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://ja.squarespace.com/" hreflang="ja-jp" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://ja.squarespace.com/" hreflang="ja" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://ko.squarespace.com/" hreflang="ko-kr" />
<link rel="alternate" href="https://ko.squarespace.com/" hreflang="ko" />
[... 18 more head elements folded ...]
</head>
<body class="collection-homepage-default fs-unmask">
<img id="cdn-lark" style="display: none;" data-load="false" data-src="https://static1.squarespace.com/static/ta/5134cbefe4b0c6fb04df8065/13851/assets/blank.jpg">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://assets.squarespace.com/www/versioned-assets/styles/defaults.c223ab87.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="https://assets.squarespace.com/www/versioned-assets/styles/pages/homepage/default/index.517d0be8.css">
<div id="homepage-default" data-page-root>
<header id="global-navigation" class="global-navigation global-navigation--not-sticky global-navigation--nav-items-visible global-navigation--loaded"><a class="cta cta--primary cta--light cta--has-arrow global-navigation__skip-link" href="#content" tabindex="0" data-sl-variant="c3135df12f1e6cee696c52d11e8eedcc"><span class="cta__label">Skip to Main Content</span><span data-arrow="true" aria-hidden="true"><span class="cta__arrow-icon">→</span></span></a>
<div class="global-navigation__header">
<div class="global-navigation__logo-container"><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__logo-link" href="/" aria-label="Squarespace homepage" data-sl-attr-variant="aria-label:db6b810bb9790c80e8043e87fe404905">
<svg width="208" height="30" viewBox="0 0 208 30" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="global-navigation__logo global-navigation__logo--desktop">[... 11,616 characters folded ...]
</svg>
<svg width="29" height="24" viewBox="0 0 29 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="global-navigation__logo global-navigation__logo--mobile">[... 1,430 characters folded ...]
</svg></a>
</div>
<nav class="global-navigation__nav" aria-label="Main menu" data-sl-attr-variant="aria-label:7da8670924f08b18ab690188fb83337e"><button class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__header-link-item"><span class="text text--eyebrow text--light" data-sl-variant="8c32ecbc3d989240a0dc5464231aadc2">Products</span>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="none" class="global-navigation__header-link-item-caret"><path d="M3 4L3 6.5L8 11.5L13 6.5L13 4L8 9L3 4Z" fill="white"></path>
</svg></button><button class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__header-link-item"><span class="text text--eyebrow text--light" data-sl-variant="7f2a2958bc19400e8375ab4c73893cc0">Solutions</span>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="none" class="global-navigation__header-link-item-caret"><path d="M3 4L3 6.5L8 11.5L13 6.5L13 4L8 9L3 4Z" fill="white"></path>
</svg></button><button class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__header-link-item"><span class="text text--eyebrow text--light" data-sl-variant="26108065207d10f1e7179ecb38d4b4e9">Resources</span>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="16" height="16" viewBox="0 0 16 16" fill="none" class="global-navigation__header-link-item-caret"><path d="M3 4L3 6.5L8 11.5L13 6.5L13 4L8 9L3 4Z" fill="white"></path>
</svg></button><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__pricing-german global-navigation__header-link-item" href="/preise"><span class="text text--eyebrow text--light">Preise</span></a>
<div class="global-navigation__nav-hover-container">
</div>
</nav>
<div class="global-navigation__account-container">
<div class="global-navigation__account-info-container"><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__account-login global-navigation__account-login--is-visible"><span class="text text--eyebrow text--light global-navigation__account-login-text" data-sl-variant="71724d113a0a0a28361633d944b5f03f">Log In</span></a>
<div class="global-navigation__account-info"><button class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__account-avatar" aria-label="Account information dropdown menu" data-sl-attr-variant="aria-label:a3664373c36abd27af0538c4160d42b1"><span class="text text--body-medium text--light global-navigation__account-initial global-navigation__account-initial--is-visible"></span></button>
<div class="global-navigation__account-hover-spacer">
</div>
<div class="global-navigation__account-dropdown">
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="13" viewBox="0 0 20 13" fill="none" class="global-navigation__account-dropdown-caret">[... 239 characters folded ...]
</svg>
<div class="global-navigation__account-dropdown-header"><span class="text text--footnote text--light global-navigation__account-dropdown-title">undefined undefined</span><span class="text text--footnote text--light global-navigation__account-dropdown-title global-navigation__account-email"></span>
</div>
<ul class="global-navigation__account-dropdown-list">
<li><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__account-dropdown-list-item"><span class="text text--footnote text--light global-navigation__account-dropdown-title" data-sl-variant="768ec6381bac6c5a9f62f6cb93dcc5d9">Account Dashboard</span></a>
</li>
<li><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__account-dropdown-list-item"><span class="text text--footnote text--light global-navigation__account-dropdown-title" data-sl-variant="6f89028c276fc56d57c9355ce8603ddd">Domains</span></a>
</li>
<li><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__account-dropdown-list-item" href="/"><span class="text text--footnote text--light global-navigation__account-dropdown-title" data-sl-variant="2d51758d8ced41bf53a84fc3d82f1ddc">Log Out</span></a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div class="global-navigation__account-children"><a class="cta cta--primary-subtle cta--light cta--has-arrow global-navigation__cta global-navigation__default-cta" href="/templates/get-started" data-object-type="button" data-identifier="cta" data-testid="get-started-cta-non-ja" data-sl-variant="get-started-colloquial"><span class="cta__label">Get started</span><span data-arrow="true" aria-hidden="true"><span class="cta__arrow-icon">→</span></span></a><a class="cta cta--primary-subtle cta--light cta--has-arrow global-navigation__cta global-navigation__default-cta" href="/templates/get-started" data-object-type="button" data-identifier="cta" data-lang-code="ja" data-testid="get-started-cta-ja" data-sl-variant="start-a-free-trial-colloquial"><span class="cta__label">Start a Free Trial</span><span data-arrow="true" aria-hidden="true"><span class="cta__arrow-icon">→</span></span></a>
</div>
</div><button class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__hamburger" aria-label="Navigation menu" aria-expanded="false" data-sl-attr-variant="aria-label:b787e132259684ff767befd1dda3f2be"><span class="global-navigation__hamburger-bar"></span><span class="global-navigation__hamburger-bar"></span></button>
</div>
<div class="global-navigation__mobile-menu">
<div class="global-navigation__mobile-menu-content">
<div class="global-navigation__accordion"><button class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__accordion-heading">
<p class="text text--subtitle1 text--light global-navigation__accordion-title" data-sl-variant="8c32ecbc3d989240a0dc5464231aadc2">Products
</p>
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="32" height="32" viewBox="0 0 32 32" fill="none" class="arrow-icon global-navigation__accordion-arrow">[... 208 characters folded ...]
</svg></button>
<div class="global-navigation__accordion-inner">
<div class="global-navigation__accordion-inner-content">
<div class="global-navigation__products-menu">
<div class="global-navigation__links-container">
<div class="global-navigation__products-menu-content">
<div class="global-navigation__products-menu-column">
<div class="global-navigation__products-menu-group">
<p class="text text--eyebrow text--light global-navigation__eyebrow" data-sl-variant="8384886b588c99f69328a277427ea800">Website
</p>
<ul class="global-navigation__products-menu-list">
<li class="global-navigation__products-menu-list-item"><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item" href="/website-design" data-identifier="website-parent"><span class="text text--body text--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item-title" data-sl-variant="f2d30fd45465b866938f41da33c312db">Websites</span><span data-arrow="true" aria-hidden="true" class="global-navigation__link-arrow">→</span></a>
</li>
<li class="global-navigation__products-menu-list-item"><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item" href="/templates" data-identifier="website-web-design"><span class="text text--body text--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item-title" data-sl-variant="bc755034173438c907b9b5c2b3b7c799">Website Templates</span><span data-arrow="true" aria-hidden="true" class="global-navigation__link-arrow">→</span></a>
</li>
<li class="global-navigation__products-menu-list-item"><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item" href="/websites/ai-website-builder" data-identifier="ai-website-builder"><span class="text text--body text--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item-title" data-sl-variant="60901cb4cd3e74f7b9b553a02104ab24">AI Website Builder</span><span data-arrow="true" aria-hidden="true" class="global-navigation__link-arrow">→</span></a>
</li>
<li class="global-navigation__products-menu-list-item"><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item" href="/design-intelligence" data-identifier="design-intelligence"><span class="text text--body text--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item-title" data-sl-variant="390308c7cf67db292c118eaceb1a1ffb">Design Intelligence</span><span data-arrow="true" aria-hidden="true" class="global-navigation__link-arrow">→</span></a>
</li>
<li class="global-navigation__products-menu-list-item"><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item" href="/ecommerce-website" data-identifier="commerce-parent"><span class="text text--body text--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item-title" data-sl-variant="128cba2008836d9a4a409662a0990d39">Ecommerce</span><span data-arrow="true" aria-hidden="true" class="global-navigation__link-arrow">→</span></a>
</li>
<li class="global-navigation__products-menu-list-item"><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item" href="/websites/create-a-portfolio" data-identifier="website-portfolios"><span class="text text--body text--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item-title" data-sl-variant="127bcf4073542ad505c083d0c9b0f554">Portfolios</span><span data-arrow="true" aria-hidden="true" class="global-navigation__link-arrow">→</span></a>
</li>
<li class="global-navigation__products-menu-list-item"><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item" href="/websites/create-a-blog" data-identifier="website-blogging"><span class="text text--body text--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item-title" data-sl-variant="2879f7b31af926dd294e28e6dc791202">Blogs</span><span data-arrow="true" aria-hidden="true" class="global-navigation__link-arrow">→</span></a>
</li>
<li class="global-navigation__products-menu-list-item"><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item" href="/websites/analytics" data-identifier="website-analytics"><span class="text text--body text--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item-title" data-sl-variant="71db678cb56c40446b978128e6870c35">Analytics</span><span data-arrow="true" aria-hidden="true" class="global-navigation__link-arrow">→</span></a>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<div class="global-navigation__products-menu-column">
<div class="global-navigation__products-menu-group">
<p class="text text--eyebrow text--light global-navigation__eyebrow" data-sl-variant="8b1ee0ef11ade5b3de05a8677166c200">Business
</p>
<ul class="global-navigation__products-menu-list">
<li class="global-navigation__products-menu-list-item"><a class="cta cta--inline cta--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item" href="/services" data-identifier="commerce-sell-services"><span class="text text--body text--light global-navigation__products-menu-link-item-title" data-sl-variant="9cc20469ea8378153cd882461c44f82c">Services</span><span data-arrow="true" aria-hidden="true" class="global-navigation__link-arrow">→</span></a>
</li>
Shown with 297 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 611 KB.
Reading view the text a plain-fetch client can extract
title: Website Builder – Easily Create Your Own Website - Squarespace
A website makes it real
Skip to Main Content→ Products Solutions Resources Preise Log In undefined undefined Account Dashboard Domains Log Out Get started→ Start a Free Trial→ Products Website Websites→ Website Templates→ AI Website Builder→ Design Intelligence→ Ecommerce→ Portfolios→ Blogs→ Analytics→ Business Services→ Online Stores→ Invoicing→ Scheduling→ Limited Releases→ Content & Memberships→ Donations→ Financial Solutions→ Marketing Marketing Tools→ Email Campaigns→ SMS Campaigns→ SEO Tools→ AI Visibility→ Free Tools→ Business Tools Domain Search→ Domain Transfer→ Business Email→ View All Features→ Build with AI→ Create a personalized website with ease Squarespace for Pros→ Powerful enough for pros, easy enough for clients Circle→ The partner program for freelancers and agencies Solutions Solutions for Creative Services Creative Services Professional Services Professional Services Education & Training Education & Training Beauty Beauty Sports & Fitness Sports & Fitness Health & Wellness Health & Wellness Home Services Home Services Events & Experiences Events & Experiences Charities & Nonprofits Charities & Nonprofits Personal Personal Explore Explore Creative Services→→ Turn your passion projects into paid projects. Discover tools to manage clients and grow your creative business. Photographers Graphic Designers Artists Interior Designers Architects Fashion & Apparel Explore Explore Professional Services→→ One platform to manage and grow your business, so you can deliver a
3494 more words follow in the initial HTML.
| Check | Result | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| H1 in the initial HTML | Found one H1 | First H1: A website makes it real |
| First 200 words in the initial HTML | Found 200 of 200 words | The initial HTML carries 3694 words of visible text; the first 200 are marked in the left pane. |
| llms.txt present and linked | Note present, not linked | 2409 bytes, 7 links. Structure grade A (6 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 Answer, FAQPage, HowTo, HowToStep and 4 more | 8 schema.org types in JSON-LD blocks on the home page: Answer, FAQPage, HowTo, HowToStep, LocalBusiness, Organization, Question, 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 squarespace.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