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Can AI see your site?
Find out in seconds whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google’s AI crawlers can actually read your website — the first requirement for being cited in AI answers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about AI crawler access and getting cited by AI.
AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot are the bots that read the web to power AI assistants and AI search. If your robots.txt blocks them, those engines can’t read your site — so they can’t cite or recommend your business in their answers.
GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User (ChatGPT), ClaudeBot, Claude-Web and anthropic-ai (Claude), PerplexityBot (Perplexity), Google-Extended (Gemini and Google AI Overviews), Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot, CCBot (Common Crawl), and Bytespider.
Access is necessary but not sufficient. Letting AI crawlers in is step one; getting cited also depends on machine-readable structure (schema, llms.txt), retrieval-ready content, and authority. This tool scores the foundation — the full picture is our 5-Layer GEO Stack.
No. The check fetches your site’s public robots.txt and homepage in real time and returns the result. We don’t store the URL or the report.