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AI View

What assistants can read from each page, and how that compares with the fetched HTML.

AI View is the text ChatGPT, Copilot, and Perplexity can read from a page: headings, paragraphs, lists, and tables, with scripts, navigation, and other chrome removed. It is the same text Raylit hashes to decide whether a page changed. It does not ask those assistants whether they will cite the page, and it does not run the page's JavaScript.

Every plan includes AI View for every monitored page. There is no API key to set. The text comes from the crawl. A plan whose feature list no longer mentions AI View hides the controls. See Plans and limits.

On a domain

The domain page has an AI View summary:

  • Readable pages have extracted text.
  • Nothing to read means a crawl ran and found no text. The page may be a redirect, an error, or content that only appears after JavaScript runs.
  • Not crawled means Raylit has not fetched the page yet.
  • Needs JavaScript means the fetched HTML has almost no text of its own.
  • Missing answers means some controls expand content that is not in the HTML, such as an accordion whose answers are added by a script.

The Pages table has an AI View column with that status and a View in AI button. The same column is on each URL in a crawl.

On a page

View in AI opens the page with two sides of the same crawl:

  • Human view is the fetched HTML, with scripts removed, shown in a preview. It is not a live embed of the designed site. Sites that refuse to be framed, which is common, would show a blank frame, so Raylit renders the HTML it already fetched. Open page loads the live site in a new tab.
  • AI view is the extracted text. Reading shows it as headings, lists, and tables. Source shows the Markdown. Copy text copies that Markdown.

Change history lists earlier crawls. Choosing one shows that version's AI text and the word count stored for that crawl. The word count under the latest text is the count stored for the current crawl, the same number as in the Pages table. Raylit does not count the words again in the browser, because a second count would disagree with the one used to judge a minimal change. Human view and the content flags belong to the latest crawl, so they are hidden while an older version is open.

A page that has not been crawled yet says so. A crawl that stored no readable text says there is nothing to read. Flags for JavaScript-only pages and missing answers are shown above the preview of the latest crawl. Missing answers means the accordion item itself has no answer text. A heading with the answer in the HTML next to it is not flagged. A call to action after the last question is not treated as that answer.

Human view and those flags are saved on the next crawl. Pages crawled before this was added still show their AI view text, and Human view asks you to crawl again.