# SERP checker The results page for a search, read now rather than remembered: the ten sites that hold it, what kind of page each one is, the People also ask questions beneath them, whether an AI Overview opens and who it cites. Six markets, one search at a time. Updated 2026-09-14 · Source: https://porteur.ai/tools/serp-checker ## What it reads The tool asks for the live results page of a search in the market you pick, on desktop, and reads it the way a crawler would: the organic results in order with their domain, title and address, the features Google drew on the page (a featured snippet, videos, a local pack, shopping, discussions), the People also ask questions with the site that answers each one today, and, when Google drew an AI Overview, the pages it cites. It is the page you would see in a clean browser in that country, without your history shaping it. The reading above the table says what the page is made of: how many distinct sites hold it, how many are large brands or platforms, how many of the titles are lists and comparisons, and whether an AI answer sits above everything. ## Why the results page is the brief Before writing a page for a search, the results page tells you what Google has decided the searcher wants. Ten product pages mean the searcher is buying; ten guides mean they are learning; ten lists mean they are choosing, and a single product page will not get in. The questions under the results are the sections a page should carry, and the sites that answer them are the ones to beat. An AI Overview at the top means the click count below it is smaller, and that the cited pages are the ones the answer trusted. It also tells you whether the search is worth the work. A page held by six platforms with a hundred thousand pages each is not one a small site takes with a good article; a page held by ordinary sites, forum threads and one directory is. ## How to read the result - **Distinct sites**: ten different domains is a normal page; six or seven means one site holds several results and the others are thin. - **Large brands**: four or more platforms in the top ten means the page is held by weight. Look for the search under it that they do not answer. - **Lists and comparisons in the titles**: when most titles say best, top, vs or alternatives, the winning page is a list or a comparison, and a product page ranks under them at best. - **People also ask**: each question is a heading. A question answered today by a forum thread is one a proper page takes. - **The AI Overview cites**: the pages the answer trusted. Being on that list is the aim of most of what is called GEO. Example: for "invoicing software for freelancers" in the United Kingdom, yourproduct.com sees seven distinct sites, two platforms, eight titles that are best-of lists, and four questions, two of them answered by community threads. The page to write is a comparison with a section for each question, and the two threads are where to answer first. ## What to do with it 1. **Check the search before the page** Run the search you plan to write for. Match the kind of page the results are made of; do not write a guide for a page of product listings. 2. **Copy the questions into the outline** The People also ask questions, in their own words, as h2 headings. Answer each in two sentences before the detail. 3. **Read the three pages that hold the top** What they have (a table, a video, a calculator, an author) is the floor; what they lack is the opening. 4. **Check the market that pays** A results page differs by country. Check the one your customers search from, not the default. 5. **Check again after publishing** When the page is indexed, the same search shows where it landed and who moved. ## Limits One results page at a time, on desktop, from the country's default location; a mobile page or a city-level page can differ. Google draws pages differently by hour and by tester, so two reads minutes apart can swap two results. The tool is limited to twenty searches an hour from one address and five hundred a day in all, because each results page is bought on your behalf. It does not track positions over time; Search Console's Performance report does that for your own pages, for free. Each run is a live results page that costs a few cents at a provider, so the tool runs for a signed-in account only: a free account, no card, five paid checks a day and forty a month across the paid tools, counted per account. The same input asked twice in a day is answered from memory and is not counted. The free check on the home page is not counted either. A day's budget for the tool as a whole is capped as well, so a busy day ends with a plain message rather than a bill. ## Questions ### Why do my own results look different? Your browser carries your history, your location and your sign-in, and Google shapes the page with them. The tool reads the page from a clean session in the country's default location, which is closer to what most searchers see. ### Does it show mobile results? Desktop, as of 2026. Mobile pages carry the same organic order in most cases and more features; the questions and the AI Overview are the same. ### Is an AI Overview shown on every search? No. Google draws one on a subset of searches, mostly questions and informational ones, and the subset changes. When the tool shows none, the search did not have one at that moment in that market. ### Can I check a search in another country? Six markets are offered: the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Australia, each in its main language. Other countries are not available here. ### How is this different from a rank tracker? A rank tracker records where your pages sit on a list of searches, every day. This reads one results page whole, once, to tell you what it is made of before you write for it. ## Read next - [Search intent: what the results page tells you to build](https://porteur.ai/guides/search-intent): Learn the four intents, read intent from the results page, and fix pages that will never rank by changing their kind, not just the words. - [People also ask: turning Google’s questions into sections](https://porteur.ai/guides/people-also-ask): See what People also ask is, where questions come from, how to collect them, write two-sentence answers, add FAQ markup, and track results. - [How to appear in Google’s AI Overviews](https://porteur.ai/guides/how-to-rank-in-ai-overviews): What overviews cite, which queries trigger them, and how to structure pages that get linked. Steps to find your openings and measure them. - [Competitor keyword analysis by hand, with free data](https://porteur.ai/guides/competitor-keyword-analysis): Choose the right rivals, read their sitemaps, pull free keyword clues, find the gaps, and turn them into pages you can ship this week. - [Keyword difficulty: what the number means and when to ignore it](https://porteur.ai/guides/keyword-difficulty): Treat keyword difficulty as a links proxy, not a gatekeeper. Learn when the score helps, when it misleads, and how to read the results page yourself. - [Keyword ideas finder](https://porteur.ai/tools/keyword-ideas-finder): Type one term and get up to fifty longer searches that contain it, with monthly demand, difficulty and intent, and a reading of the pattern. - [Keyword volume checker](https://porteur.ai/tools/keyword-volume-checker): Paste up to twenty search terms and get the monthly searches for each in one of six markets, sorted, totalled, and ready to copy as CSV. No account, no card. - [SERP](https://porteur.ai/glossary/serp): A SERP is a search engine results page. See its parts as of 2026, how to read features, how they affect clicks, and what to do on your site. One search here; the free check reads the searches around a whole site, names who takes each one, and says which are within reach. Free check: https://porteur.ai/