AI Crawlability Checker
Can AI engines access your website? Check if ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity and 15+ other AI bots are allowed or blocked by your robots.txt.
What Is an AI Crawlability Check?
AI search engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude use web crawlers to index and understand your content. If your robots.txt file blocks these crawlers, AI platforms cannot access your website — which means they cannot recommend or cite your brand in their responses.
Our free AI Crawlability Checker scans your robots.txt against 19 known AI bot user-agents and tells you exactly which ones are allowed or blocked. This is the first step to improving your AI search visibility.
Which AI Bots Do We Check?
How to Fix Blocked AI Crawlers
If our checker shows that key AI bots are blocked, here's how to fix it:
- Open your
robots.txtfile (usually atyoursite.com/robots.txt) - Find any
Disallowrules targeting AI bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or Google-Extended - Remove or modify those rules to allow crawling
- Re-check with our tool to confirm the bots are now allowed
FAQ
Is this tool free?
Yes, the AI Crawlability Checker is completely free with no signup required.
Does blocking AI bots affect my Google ranking?
Blocking Google-Extended only affects Gemini AI training, not your traditional Google Search ranking. However, blocking Googlebot will affect both.
Should I allow all AI crawlers?
For maximum AI visibility, yes. If you have concerns about AI training on your content, you can selectively block training-focused bots (GPTBot, Google-Extended, CCBot) while allowing search bots (ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot).
How often should I check?
Check whenever you update your robots.txt or deploy site changes. For ongoing monitoring, CiteRank's paid plans track your AI visibility daily.
What if I don't have a robots.txt file?
If your site has no robots.txt, all bots are allowed by default — that's usually fine for AI visibility.