How to check a rival's website

Type any site address and PageSoar reads its public pages with the same checks yours get, then compares two sites side by side.

Compare with a rival shows what another site's pages do that yours do not. Type an address, such as rival.com, and choose Check. Suggested sites appear above the box, including your own.

What it does#

PageSoar finds the site's pages, reads each page's title and description, and scores each page. It reads public pages only, without signing in to anything. It uses the site's list of pages for search engines, or the links on its home page if there is none. A large site is read up to its first 500 pages, and pages the site asks search engines to skip are left unread.

The result line says how many pages were read and why any were not, for example pages that could not be opened or that the site slowed down.

Comparing two sites#

With two or more checks saved, Compare two websites puts them side by side. Each figure is a share of the pages it was counted over, so a small site and a large one compare fairly. The better figure is in bold. Speed on a phone is included when Google measured both.

What kind of business it is#

When the reading is clear, the screen says what kind of business the site appears to be and what it went on. For a local business it lists what the home page does not say, such as an address, a phone number or opening hours.

The last 20 checks are kept, newest first, under Earlier checks.