Can ChatGPT read your website? A free check by Matt Edward
Enter your domain. In about 10 seconds you see which AI crawlers can reach your site, which are blocked, and what stops an assistant quoting your pages. No email needed.
00 Result
/ 100
What to fix, in order
Crawler by crawler
| Crawler | Used for | robots.txt | Server |
|---|
“Server” is one request sent with that crawler’s name. Google and Bing verify their crawlers by IP address, so a test like this proves nothing about them and they are left untested.
Pages checked
| Page | Words | Score | First thing to fix |
|---|
This shows whether the engines can read you, not whether they name you. The full audit asks ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity your customers’ questions and counts who they recommend.
01What it checks
What does the AI crawler check test?
Four things: whether the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google and Bing are allowed in, whether your pages say who you are in structured data, whether the text is easy to quote, and whether you publish an llms.txt.
| Part | Points | What is measured |
|---|---|---|
| Access | 40 | robots.txt rules for 14 crawlers, plus one request as each AI crawler to see whether the server refuses it |
| Structure | 25 | Organization or LocalBusiness schema, and page-specific schema on the pages checked |
| Content | 25 | Text in the HTML without JavaScript, headings, length, question-and-answer blocks, dates |
| Guidance | 10 | An llms.txt file with a title and at least 3 links |
02What it can’t tell you
What can’t a crawler check tell you?
Whether the assistants actually name your business. A site can be fully open and still never be recommended. That takes asking the engines your customers’ questions, many times, and counting.
The AI visibility audit measures that part, with every figure shown as a share of answers and a 95% range.
03What it does to your site
What does the check do to my site?
It makes about 16 ordinary page requests, never more than 4 at once, and reads only public pages. It is limited to 5 checks an hour per visitor. Nothing is stored and no email is asked for.