robots.txt report

canva.com

https://canva.com

All reports for canva.comPage not read: bot challenge
C

66/100

Complexity 100/100

How scoring works
User Agents
32
Rules
686
Sitemaps
2
Critical
2
File Size
6.4 KB
Cached result · Expires in 21 hours 9 minutes

1 critical problem

1 critical · 1 notice · 1 info · 1 not checked · 6 pass

32 crawlers named · 6 unrecognised

What this file says about crawlers

Not checked

Who this file lets in

  • AI Data Scraper all 15 blocked
  • Unrecognised3 allowed, 2 blocked
  • Undocumented AI Agent all 2 blocked
  • Intelligence Gatherer1 allowed, 1 blocked
  • Scraper all 1 blocked
  • Fetcher all 3 allowed
  • Every other crawler all 1 allowed
  • Security Scanner all 1 allowed

Path Access Checker

Detailed Analysis

Critical

1 declared sitemap could not be fetched

The URL is declared in robots.txt but does not return a successful response.

Consequence. Crawlers find nothing at the address they were pointed to, so no URLs are submitted. This is worse than declaring no sitemap, because the declaration suggests discovery is covered when it is not.

If that is not intended. Publish the sitemap at the declared URL, or correct the URL to where it lives.

  • https://www.canva.com/landing_page_sitemap_index.xmlL261Responded HTTP 403
Notice

1 rule is declared more than once

The same directive and path appear repeatedly within one group.

Consequence. Duplicates have no effect on crawling, but they inflate the file toward the 500 KB limit and usually signal that the file is generated without dedup.

If that is not intended. Remove the repeats.

  • disallow: *__hstc=L69Already declared on line 30 for *
Info

5 of 6 AI training crawlers are blocked

Blocked: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider, meta-externalagent, CCBot.

  • GPTBotOpenAIL146

    OpenAI model training

    "Disallow: /" blocks GPTBot.

  • ClaudeBotAnthropicL146

    Anthropic model training

    "Disallow: /" blocks ClaudeBot.

  • BytespiderByteDanceL254

    ByteDance model training

    "Disallow: /" blocks Bytespider.

  • meta-externalagentMetaL254

    Meta model training

    "Disallow: /" blocks meta-externalagent.

  • CCBotCommon CrawlL146

    Common Crawl, widely redistributed as training data

    "Disallow: /" blocks CCBot.

If that is the intention. If your intention is to prevent this content being used as model training data, the current configuration achieves that for these crawlers — the rest of the group is still allowed.

Consequence. These crawlers cannot retrieve content from the site, so it will not be collected as training data. They send no traffic back, and blocking them does not affect search rankings.

If that is not intended. Remove the site-wide block, or replace it with narrower path restrictions.

Pass

Search engines can reach the site

All 6 checked search engines are allowed at the site root.

Pass

AI answer engines can reach the site

All 4 checked AI answer engines are allowed at the site root.

Pass

User-triggered AI fetches can reach the site

All 3 checked user-triggered AI fetches are allowed at the site root.

Pass

Social link previews can reach the site

All 5 checked social link previews are allowed at the site root.

Not checked

Page directives were not checked

The page answered HTTP 403 with a bot challenge instead of its content, so its meta robots tags and X-Robots-Tag headers were not read.

Consequence. Nothing is known about whether this page asks to be kept out of search results. Its absence of directives here proves nothing either way.

If that is not intended. Analyse the page again once it answers normally to our bot.

Pass

No syntax problems

Every line parses as a directive crawlers understand.

Pass

File size is 6.4 KB

Comfortably within the 500 KB that crawlers will read.