Ghost Viewer

Ghost Viewer identifies and inventories ghost content—pages within a site's structure that are not intended for public indexing or navigation but may affect crawl efficiency and content coverage. Target users include SEO analysts, content strategists, and web teams conducting audits, migrations, or pruning efforts. The tool assists during site redesigns by surfacing noindex pages, robots-blocked routes, redirected paths, and orphaned URLs that influence crawl budgets and indexing quality.
Conceptually, Ghost Viewer performs a scoped crawl starting from a given URL, with configurable depth and patterns. It analyzes meta directives (noindex, nofollow), robots.txt, canonical consistency, internal linking, and HTTP status codes, and it cross-checks against sitemap data. The result is a categorized inventory: visible pages, ghost pages (blocked or hidden), and misaligned entries. Advanced users can compare current results with archived snapshots or external data sources for change detection.
Who benefits: SEO practitioners seeking to optimize crawl budgets, content teams planning migrations, and developers ensuring site health after restructuring. The tool enables targeted remediation by listing each ghost page with its reason, last_seen date, and suggested actions, helping prioritize fixes and improve index coverage.
Core differentiators include precise ghost detection within site scope, explicit categorization by reason, and export-ready outputs suitable for audits and stakeholder reports. Use cases span post-migration validation, content pruning, gap analysis, and ongoing crawl-health monitoring. Optional integrations and API access extend workflow automation without altering production sites.