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.
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 *
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.