Direct-Answer Snippet Checker

A short, self-contained passage that answers a question without needing the text around it, usually one to three sentences right under a heading. Engines retrieve and quote passages rather than whole pages, and an answer-first passage is the easiest kind to lift accurately.

Several major AI crawlers have been reported to fetch raw HTML without executing JavaScript. If your content is rendered in the browser, the crawler may see an empty shell. This tool fetches your page without running JavaScript to mimic that. If it can’t find text, an engine probably can’t either.

It looks at your first H1, finds the first paragraph longer than 40 characters, and counts the body text. It passes if it finds that paragraph or at least 200 characters of text. It’s a coarse test for “is there anything extractable”. It doesn’t judge whether the paragraph is accurate, or whether it really answers the question the page targets.

Lead with the answer, then add the detail. Name the subject instead of writing “it” or “this”, so the sentence still makes sense on its own. Aim for roughly 40 to 60 words, include a concrete fact (a number, a name, a date), and put it near the top of the page under a heading that matches how people ask the question.

Yes. Clear headings, lists, tables and FAQPage structured data give engines clean boundaries around passages, which makes them easier to retrieve and quote. Structure helps extraction, but the words still have to answer the question.

No, it checks your own page, not an AI engine’s answer. To see a live AI answer and whether you’re named in it, use the Citation Snapshot tool or a full ContextOwl AI Visibility Report.

It’s a floor, not a target — enough text to prove something extractable exists on the page. A genuinely quotable answer is usually a focused, 40-60 word passage near the top, not just any 200 characters.