Test and optimize your robots.txt

Run a free test to spot configuration issues and find useful improvements. Enter your domain, review the report and see what to adjust.

If your AI policy already exists under a custom path, provide its public same-domain URL or path, such as /ai-policy/.

What should your site allow?

Choose the goal that best fits your site. The recommendations will use that goal.

Help me choose my intent profile Four questions can recommend an existing profile before the audit.

Answer a few questions to find a suitable option. You can change it before running the test.

Should traditional search engines be able to crawl the site?
Do you want to declare a restriction against AI training on your content?
Do you want to allow crawlers used for AI answers or AI search when that supports discoverability?
What is your main priority?

This helper selects one of the available profiles. You can review and change the choice before testing.

Free. No sign-up. Full audit results are cached briefly by domain for performance. We keep the previous score for up to 30 days to show progress, plus short-lived diagnostic attempts for reliability. Long-term stats are aggregated and anonymised.

What we check

1

Presence & validity

Is robots.txt reachable? Is the syntax valid? Is your sitemap referenced?

2

AI crawler coverage

Are GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot & 16 others addressed explicitly?

3

Modern AI signals

llms.txt, ai-manifest.json, .well-known/ governance, AI usage policy, training-vs-retrieval signals.

4

Hygiene

No accidental Disallow: /, no obsolete directives, no over-engineering.

Turn your results into useful changes

Review the points flagged in your report, adjust your settings, then test again to check your published robots.txt.