The text that remains
Your site's extractable text, with images and video removed.
Free tool
What is left of your site when a machine reads it?
Search engines and other software read text, not pictures. This tool reads your site, strips out images and video, and shows you the text that remains. If your offer is written on a banner image, it disappears.
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- Images and video stripped out
- Text only
- Source: src/app/(shell)/tools/legibility/runner.ts · checked 2026-10-13
- Shown at the top of the result
- Word count first
- Source: src/components/shell/tools-meta.ts · checked 2026-10-13
- Open tool, no account
- Free
- Source: src/lib/tenants/config.ts · checked 2026-10-13
What it is
What it is, and how it works.
A free tool that reads your site the way a machine does, text only with images and video stripped, and shows you exactly what is left, with the word count up front.
Many websites say their most important things in pictures: a banner with the offer written on it, a logo wall instead of a list of clients, a video where the explanation should be. A person sees it. A search engine, an assistant model or a screen reader often does not.
This tool shows you the difference. It reads your site, removes the images and video, and shows you the extractable text that remains, with the word count at the top. If your services, your location, your prices or your proof are only in images, you will see them disappear.
It is the quickest way to find content that needs to be written out as text. Fixing it helps more than machines: text is what screen readers announce and what search engines index, and it is usually clearer for people too.
Results are cached for a period, so re-running straight away shows the same reading. Runs are capped to keep the tool free. It reads what is publicly reachable, nothing behind a login.
Who it is for
- Owners whose sites lean heavily on images or video
- Anyone checking whether key facts are in readable text
- Teams preparing content for a rebuild
What it does
What it reads, and what you see.
Word count up front
A quick sense of how much a machine has to work with.
Missing facts, visible
If an offer or a service lives only in an image, it is not there.
By hand, or with it
The same job, two ways.
By hand
- Assume a machine sees what you see
- Find out from poor search results
- Miss offers written into banner images
- No quick way to check
With Machine legibility check
- The machine-readable text, on one page
- A word count at the top
- Image-only content made obvious
- Free, with no account
What you walk away with
What you keep.
A text-only view
What software reading your site actually gets.
A rewrite list
Content that needs to be written out as text.
A word count
How much readable content each page carries.
A quick check
Something to run again after you make changes.
How it works
Three steps.
Enter your web address
No account needed.
We read the site
Text is extracted; images and video are stripped.
Read what is left
The remaining text, with the word count first.
Limits
What it does not do.
- It shows extractable text; it does not score quality or tell you what to write.
- Results are cached, so an immediate re-run after a change may show the old reading.
- Runs are capped to keep the tool free.
- It reads public pages only.
- It does not check whether your text is accurate, persuasive or well organised. Only that it exists as text.
Price
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FAQ
Machine legibility check: questions
What should I do with the result?
Look for the four things a buyer most needs: what you do, where, for whom, and why they should trust you. Check each one appears in the text. Anything missing needs writing out on the page.
Why does this matter?
Software that reads your site works from text. Anything said only in an image or video may as well not be there for it.
I changed my site and the result did not change. Why?
Results are cached for a period. Try again later.
Does it score my site?
No. It shows you the text and the word count; the judgement is yours. The free Insight Report gives a scored read.
Do I need an account?
No. It is an open tool.