Browser DevTools for AI Discoverability: Audit Your Product Pages Like an AI Crawler
Chrome DevTools is the single most accessible tool for auditing how AI shopping agents perceive your ecommerce store, yet fewer than 1 in 10 ecommerce teams use it for that purpose. The same Developer Tools panel you use for debugging JavaScript contains everything needed to simulate what ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity see when they fetch your product pages: raw HTML inspection, JavaScript disabling, network throttling, DOM querying, and user-agent spoofing. This guide walks through six concrete DevTools techniques that reveal AI discoverability gaps no schema validator will catch. ...