LinkedIn Post Inspector alternative: preview your LinkedIn link cards

When you select a crawler and enter a URL, we send a server-side HTTP request using that bot's exact User-Agent string. For example, selecting Googlebot sends the request with 'Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1)' - the same identifier Google's real crawler uses.

Your web server receives this request and responds based on the User-Agent. If you have dynamic rendering, cloaking rules, or bot-specific logic configured, the response will reflect that. This is exactly what happens during a real crawl - we are replicating the full request/response cycle.

The returned HTML is then analysed for SEO elements: title tag, meta description, Open Graph tags, heading structure, canonical URL, structured data, and overall text content. Each element is scored, and the tool flags missing or problematic items with severity ratings.

When you select multiple crawlers, each one makes an independent request in parallel. The results are displayed side by side in a comparison table so you can spot differences - for example, a page that returns complete HTML for Googlebot but an empty shell for GPTBot.

LinkedIn is the primary professional networking platform with over 900 million members. When you share a link in a LinkedIn post, article, or message, LinkedInBot fetches your page to generate a link preview card with a title, description, and image.

LinkedInBot does not execute JavaScript. It reads the raw HTML response and extracts Open Graph meta tags (og:title, og:description, og:image) to build the preview. If these tags are injected client-side by a JavaScript framework, LinkedIn shows a generic preview - typically just the URL with no image, no title, and no description.

For B2B companies, SaaS products, and professional services, LinkedIn is often the most important social channel. A broken link preview on LinkedIn directly impacts content marketing effectiveness, company page engagement, and employee advocacy programmes. When team members share company links and the preview looks broken, it undermines credibility.

Pre-rendering ensures LinkedInBot sees your OG tags in the raw HTML, producing rich, professional link previews that drive clicks and engagement on the platform where your professional audience lives.