Free AI crawlability checker for your site
AI Crawlability checks whether AI bots can reach and read your public site. A pass means the tested access signals allow a bot to fetch your page; a fail identifies the rule or technical signal to fix.
Free. Checks GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and more.
This is an AEOForged tool. The checker is a free access test. On AEOForged you get the rest of the stack — crawlability plus extractability, audits, and measured citation monitoring.
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Join the AEOForged waitlistWhat we check
Everything that decides whether an AI engine can read you
Per-bot access
GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and 7 more — checked individually, not just Googlebot.
robots.txt rules
Which AI crawlers your robots.txt allows or blocks, and the exact rule responsible.
Opt-out signals
noai / noimageai meta tags and X-Robots-Tag headers that quietly remove you from AI answers.
Rendering & speed
Whether your content lives in the initial HTML — most AI crawlers won't run your JavaScript.
llms.txt & sitemap
Discovery files that help AI systems map and understand your most important pages.
Structured data
How schema and a direct-answer structure make your facts easy for engines to extract.
Guides & articles
Source-grounded, no invented stats
AI Crawlability: Make Your Site Visible to AI
Make your site accessible to AI answer engines with practical guidance on bots, robots.txt, llms.txt, JavaScript rendering and schema.
Read the complete guidellms.txt Guide: What It Is and What Helps
Learn what llms.txt is, how to create it, how it differs from robots.txt and what evidence says about AI visibility.
Readrobots.txtrobots.txt for AI Crawlers: GPTBot & More
Set robots.txt rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other AI crawlers, with examples, common mistakes and practical limits.
ReadContent StructureHow to Structure Content for AI Extraction
How to structure pages so AI answer engines can extract and cite them: direct answers, question-led headings, scannable formatting, and FAQ and Article schema.
ReadComparisonAI crawlability checker compared with AEOForged
This free AI crawlability checker versus AEOForged: one bot-access probe versus a site audit, living fix list, and citation board. Same publisher.
ReadCheckerCrawlability Checker: How to Check If AI Bots Can Read Your Site
A crawlability checker tests whether named bots can fetch a URL. Use it to find AI access gaps Googlebot-only SEO tools miss. A pass is not a citation.
Readrobots.txtrobots.txt Allow All: What It Does for Googlebot and AI Crawlers
User-agent * with Allow / is a default allow. Named AI bots still need exact tokens if you also Disallow, and ChatGPT-User may not honor robots.txt.
ReadWhat is AI crawlability?
AI crawlability is the ability of AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Claude — to reach, render, parse and cite a website's content. It overlaps with classic SEO crawlability but is not the same: AI engines use distinct crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended) and most do not execute JavaScript, so a site that ranks in Google can still be invisible to them.
How do you make a site visible to AI answer engines?
Allow the AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended) in robots.txt, serve your content as server-rendered HTML so it exists without JavaScript, add Article and FAQPage schema, and put the direct answer first in every section. Access enables eligibility; structure decides whether engines like Google AI Overviews actually quote you. The free checker tests the access layer; the complete guide covers the full checklist.
Frequently asked questions
Is being crawlable enough to get cited by AI?
No. Crawlability is necessary but not sufficient. Allowing a bot only makes you eligible — clarity, authority, source-grounding and a direct-answer structure decide whether an engine actually quotes you. The checker reports access; the guides cover extractability.
Which AI crawlers should I allow?
At minimum the retrieval crawlers that power live answers: GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT), PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot, and Google-Extended (Google AI). Blocking these removes you from those engines' answers. Training-only crawlers like CCBot are a separate, optional policy decision.
· AI Crawlability Editorial
AI Crawlability Editorial maintains this guide and checker. Our method is to inspect publicly available robots.txt rules, page HTML, response headers, and discovery files for the signals described on this page; results describe access, not a promise of citation or ranking.
Crawlability is necessary but not sufficient for citation. We won't promise guaranteed rankings — we tell you exactly what AI engines can read today, and how to make your content the clearest answer.
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