AI Crawlability Checker
Check if your website is accessible to AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, and more. Analyze your robots.txt, HTTP headers, and meta tags.
AI Crawlability Checker: Audit Your Website's AI Bot Access
The AI Crawlability Checker analyzes whether your website allows or blocks AI crawlers. It inspects your robots.txt file, HTTP response headers, and HTML meta tags to determine access policies for every major AI bot.
Why AI Crawlability Matters
AI companies like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Meta deploy crawlers to collect web content for training large language models and powering AI search features. If your robots.txt blocks AI bots, your content won't appear in AI-generated responses, ChatGPT answers, or AI search results.
Conversely, if you want to prevent AI training on your content, you need to explicitly block these crawlers. Understanding your current settings is the first step.
What This Tool Checks
The checker analyzes three layers of AI crawler access control:
- robots.txt directives — User-agent rules for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, and more
- X-Robots-Tag headers — HTTP-level directives like noai and noimageai
- Meta robots tags — Page-level HTML meta directives targeting AI crawlers
Frequently Asked Questions
AI crawlers are automated bots used by AI companies like OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and others to access and read web content. They collect data to train language models, power AI search features, and generate AI-powered responses.
Add User-agent directives in your robots.txt file for specific AI bots (e.g., GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended) with Disallow: /. You can also use X-Robots-Tag HTTP headers or meta robots tags with 'noai' values.
It depends on your goals. Blocking AI crawlers prevents your content from being used for AI training, but may also reduce your visibility in AI-powered search results and chatbot responses. Consider which bots to block selectively.
robots.txt is a text file at the root of your website that tells web crawlers which pages they can or cannot access. It follows the Robots Exclusion Protocol and is respected by major search engines and AI crawlers.
X-Robots-Tag is an HTTP response header that provides crawling and indexing directives. It supports values like 'noai' and 'noimageai' to specifically restrict AI crawlers from using your content.
Key AI bots include GPTBot and ChatGPT-User (OpenAI), Google-Extended (Google AI), ClaudeBot (Anthropic), CCBot (Common Crawl), PerplexityBot (Perplexity AI), Bytespider (ByteDance), and Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta).