Clear-text Email Checker – Is Your Email on Your Website?
Test a website URL for clear-text email addresses (such as name@example.com) that appear directly in the HTML and can be harvested by spam bots.
Clear-text Email Checker – Is Your Address Exposed on the Page?
Paste the URL of any public page where your contact details may appear and this tool will download the HTML
and scan it for clear-text email patterns like name@example.com. In a few seconds you will see
exactly how many unique addresses are exposed in the code and in which parts of the page they appear.
Use the report to decide where you should replace raw email addresses with contact forms or basic obfuscation. Run the check on your main contact, imprint and footer templates, then clean up the riskiest spots so your addresses are harder to harvest by spam bots while your real customers can still reach you easily.
Prefer contact forms over raw email addresses
Wherever possible, let visitors reach you through a simple contact form instead of publishing direct email addresses in the HTML. This keeps communication open while making it much harder for bots to harvest your addresses at scale.
Obfuscate addresses that must stay visible
If you have to show an email address (for legal or UX reasons), consider basic obfuscation techniques: JavaScript that writes the address into the page, server-side image replacements or breaking up the address with text that humans can still read, but simple crawlers cannot parse reliably.
Audit high-risk templates regularly
Run this Clear-text Email Checker on your main templates – header, footer, contact and imprint pages – after each redesign or CMS change. This helps you catch newly exposed addresses early, before they end up on spam lists and start increasing your inbox noise.
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