Googlebot & AI Crawlability Checker

Most failures stem from restrictive robots.txt rules, CDN or WAF blocks, HTTPS errors, or missing sitemap entries. Update your robots directives, whitelist legitimate user agents, confirm HTTPS returns 200-level responses, and publish a valid sitemap that’s referenced in robots.txt.

We check HTTPS availability, inspect robots.txt directives, enumerate declared sitemaps, identify CDN providers, and simulate requests as multiple user agents to see whether they’re allowed, partially allowed, or blocked.

Run an audit and expand the “Google Bots” accordion in the Robots section. Look for Googlebot or GoogleOther entries—if they show “Blocked” review your robots.txt rules or firewalls that might be denying access.

After running an audit, compare Bingbot in the “Search Engine Crawlers” group with Googlebot in the “Google Bots” group. Each row shows HTTP response info and matched rules so you can spot differences quickly.

Yes—expand the “AI & LLM Crawlers” group. We simulate requests as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and other AI agents so you can confirm whether they receive 2xx responses or are blocked.

Google may skip URLs if they return non-200 status codes, are blocked by robots.txt, duplicate other content, or have canonical/conflicting metadata. Use the Sitemaps card to verify reachability and ensure each URL returns a crawlable 200 response.

Think of robots.txt as simple allow/deny rules. Each user-agent section lists Disallow and Allow paths. The Robots card summarizes which rules match major crawlers so you can see directives in plain language without parsing the file manually.

The built-in scan checks the root URL, but you can manually test individual pages by requesting them with the desired user agent (using curl or your own script) and comparing results. We plan to add per-URL testing in a future update.