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AI Crawler Access Checker

AI visibility is how often a brand or website appears in AI-generated answers and citations. Technical visibility is the prerequisite: an AI system cannot retrieve useful content when its crawler is blocked, the page requires JavaScript to render, or the site provides weak machine-readable context.

This checker measures part of that technical layer. It inspects published crawler rules and raw homepage delivery, then reports an Accessible, Limited, Blocked, or Not checked access verdict for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Bing Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. It does not verify indexing, rankings, brand mentions, or actual citations.

Takes ~20 seconds. Checks published crawler access for ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Bing Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. It does not measure citations.

How to use it

  1. 1

    Enter your website address and run the check.

  2. 2

    Wait about 20 seconds while we fetch your robots.txt and homepage and run the platform checks.

  3. 3

    Read the crawler-access verdict for each platform and the specific fixes for Limited or Blocked results.

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    Score 70 or higher and you can embed a crawler-access badge on your site, linked to a redacted snapshot.

FAQ

What is AI visibility?

AI visibility describes whether a brand, website, or source appears in answers generated by systems such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. Measuring actual visibility requires repeated citation and mention tracking. This checker measures only the technical conditions that make retrieval possible.

Can ChatGPT see my website?

Crawler access is one prerequisite. This checker tests whether your published rules allow OAI-SearchBot and whether useful homepage content appears in the raw HTML. It does not verify that ChatGPT has indexed or cited the site.

What's the difference between GPTBot and OAI-SearchBot?

GPTBot collects training data for OpenAI's models, while OAI-SearchBot indexes pages for ChatGPT search answers. Blocking GPTBot is an IP-policy choice that doesn't remove you from ChatGPT search; blocking OAI-SearchBot does.

How do I know if my site is blocked from AI search?

Check robots.txt for Disallow rules against retrieval crawlers like OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot, and Googlebot. This checker reads those live rules and reports whether the named crawlers are allowed.

Why does one platform show Blocked while others are Accessible?

Each platform uses different crawlers, and robots.txt rules are set per user-agent. It's common for a WordPress plugin or CDN default to block one vendor's bots and not another's, which is exactly the per-platform gap this checker surfaces.

Is this the same as the technical readiness scan?

They use the same bounded technical audit. The free audit gives one technical access score, while this checker groups crawler-access signals by platform. Neither result measures actual citations.

Check the technical access surface.

These tools inspect individual inputs. Run the free technical access audit for a bounded crawler-controls and raw-HTML score plus prioritized observations. Neither result claims to measure indexing, rankings, or citations.

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