What are Bookmarklets?
Chances are that you are not a begginer so I won’t go much into details of what Bookmarklets are.
Bookmarklets are simply browser bookmarks that execute JavaScript in order to manipulate the current page. But since I’m not a developer and my JS skills are limited, you can read more on this freeCodeCamp article.
How to install
Creating or installing a bookmarklet is identical a regular bookmark, give it a Name that reminds you the function and in the URL field add the JavaScript code.
Three ways to create a bookmarklet.
- Just drag and drop the shortcut in your bookmarks bar
- Right-click on the Bookmark bar, then Add Page
- Hit the shortcut
CMD + Dif you’re using a MAC orcontrol + Dif using Windows
Site search on current website
This bookmarklet lets you do a site: search on the current website. You can find a complete guide on search operators and amend the following JS script as needed.
javascript: (function() { new Promise(setQuery => { var input = window.prompt('You\'re searching on the above site for:'); if (input) setQuery(input); }).then(query => { window.open('https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3A%27+window.location.hostname+%27+"%27+query +%27"%27); }); })();Shortcut: Drag this into your bookmarks bar 👉 Site search
Open the current URL in ahrefs
This ahrefs bookmarklet is one of my go-to for opening the current URL in the Site Explorer with an Exact URL match.
javascript:window.open('https://app.ahrefs.com/site-explorer/overview/v2/exact/recent?target=%27+encodeURIComponent(location.hostname + location.pathname));Shortcut: Drag this into your bookmarks bar 👉 Open in ahrefs
Open Google’s cache text-only version
This little gem allows you to see the current URL in Google’s text-only cache version in order to see what a web page looked like the last time Google visited it.
javascript:(function()%7Bvar loc%3Dwindow.location%3Bif (window.location.protocol !%3D "https%3A")%7Bloc%3Dwindow.location.toString().replace(%2F%5Ehttp%3A%5C%2F%5C%2F%2F%2C'http%3A%2F%2Fwebcache.googleusercontent.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3A')%3B%7Delse%7Bloc%3Dwindow.location.toString().replace(%2F%5Ehttps%3A%5C%2F%5C%2F%2F%2C'https%3A%2F%2Fwebcache.googleusercontent.com%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3A')%3B%7Dwindow.open(loc %2B '%26num%3D1%26strip%3D1%26vwsrc%3D0')%7D)()Shortcut: Drag this into your bookmarks bar 👉 Google’s cache
Open in Google Search Console
This shortcut lets you open the current URL in Google search console with a query breakdown. There are a few applied filters such as:
- Clicks
- Impresssions
- CTR
- AVG position
- Search type: Web
- Date: Last 28 days
javascript:void(window.open(%27https://search.google.com%2Fsearch-console%2Fperformance%2Fsearch-analytics?resource_id=%27+window.location.protocol+%27%2F%2F%27+window.location.hostname+%27%2F&num_of_days=28&breakdown=query&page=!%27+window.location.href+%27&metrics=CLICKS%2CIMPRESSIONS%2CCTR%2CPOSITION%27,%27_blank%27));Shortcut: Drag this into your bookmarks bar 👉 Open in GSC
Open in Wayback Machine
Check a URL if it’s saved in Wayback Machine. If it’s not about curiousity and how a page looked like 10 years ago, then it’s about SEO advantage.
javascript:window.open('https://web.archive.org/web/*/'+ window.location.href);
Shortcut: Drag this into your bookmarks bar 👉 Open in Wayback Machine
Get robots.txt of current domain
Let’s you view the robots.txt of the current domain.
javascript:window.open(window.location.origin+'/robots.txt');Shortcut: Drag this into your bookmarks bar 👉 Open robots.txt
BONUS: Open in Google Analytics
Say that you’re currently looking at example.com/page
Hit this bookkmarklet and it will open example.com in Google Analytics under “Behavior > Site Content > Landing Pages”
javascript:window.open("https://www.google.com/analytics/web/%23report/content-landing-pages/XXXXXXXXXXXXXX/%3F_r.drilldown%3Danalytics.pagePath"%2BencodeURIComponent(":"%2Blocation.pathname)%2B"%26explorer-table.secSegmentId%3Danalytics.sourceMedium/",'_blank');
Just remember to change the Property View with the GA view that you want to associate it. In the code above replace “XXXXXXXXXXXXXX”
Take it a steps further?
Save these in your bookmarkets bar, use Alfred or Raycast (Mac users) to quickly search and use your bookmarkets. This gets you a GA view for each website, faster than you can blink.
