Detailed SEO Extension: the tool your strategy was missing
A free browser extension that shows any page's SEO structure in one click: titles, tags, links, structured data.
There is a category of tools we underrate because they cost nothing and produce no report: browser extensions. Detailed SEO Extension is one of them, and it replaces a good part of what people go looking for elsewhere.
What it shows
In one click, on any page:
- The title and meta description, with their length — handy for knowing whether they will be cut off
- The heading hierarchy: H1, H2, H3, in order. This is where you see immediately whether a page is structured or improvised
- The page's links, internal and external, with their attributes
- The images and their alt text
- The structured data present
- The canonical tag and the indexing directives
Nothing you could not find in the source code. But finding it in the source takes five minutes, and the extension takes three seconds.
The two uses that make it indispensable
Auditing your own pages. Open one of your pages and look at the heading hierarchy. If you have three H1s, or no H2 at all, you just found a problem in three seconds. Then check that the canonical tag points to the page itself — a misconfigured canonical is one of the quietest causes of a page never being indexed.
Looking at what others do. Open the top three results for a query you care about. Look at how they worded their title, how they broke up their content, what they marked up. This is not copying: it is understanding what Google considers a good answer to that question.
The way of using it that actually changes something
Take a query you want to rank for. Open the first five results and note, for each one:
- The exact wording of the title
- The number and wording of the H2s
- The approximate length of the content
- The type of page: article, service page, list, comparison
A pattern shows up fast. If the top five are all comparisons and you wrote a sales page, your search visibility is not the problem — the format is.
What it does not do
It says nothing about inbound links, nothing about search volume, nothing about how your pages actually perform. For that, Search Console remains the source.
It is an inspection tool, not an analysis tool. But for inspecting — your own pages or anyone else's — nothing is faster.