Consequence. Crawlers have to discover every URL by following links. Pages that are deep, newly published, or poorly linked internally take longer to be found, and some may never be. A sitemap is the most direct way to hand a crawler the full list.
If that is not intended. Publish an XML sitemap and declare it with an absolute URL, e.g. "Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml". The line is global — it belongs outside any User-agent group and applies to every crawler.
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1 of 6 search engines are blocked
Blocked: Baiduspider.
BaiduspiderBaiduL81
Baidu
"Disallow: /" blocks Baiduspider.
If that is the intention. If your intention is to keep the site out of the major search indexes, the current configuration achieves that for these crawlers — the rest of the group is still allowed.
Consequence. These search engines cannot crawl the site, so its pages will not appear in their results. Note that robots.txt does not remove URLs that are already indexed — it stops them being re-crawled.
If that is not intended. Remove the matching Disallow rule, or give these crawlers their own group with an Allow rule. Path matching is longest-wins, so a specific Allow overrides a broader Disallow.
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1 of 4 AI answer engines are blocked
Blocked: Google-Extended.
Google-ExtendedGoogleL54
Google AI Overviews and Gemini grounding
"Disallow: /" blocks Google-Extended.
If that is the intention. If your intention is to keep the site out of AI-generated answers, the current configuration achieves that for these crawlers — the rest of the group is still allowed.
Consequence. The site cannot be cited as a source in AI-generated answers. Unlike training crawlers these send referral traffic, so blocking them forfeits those visits.
If that is not intended. Remove the matching Disallow rule, or allow these agents on the sections you want cited.
Common Crawl, widely redistributed as training data
"Disallow: /" blocks CCBot.
AmazonbotAmazonL36
Amazon model training and Alexa
"Disallow: /" blocks Amazonbot.
If that is the intention. If your intention is to prevent this content being used as model training data, the current configuration achieves that.
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
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 2.6 KB
Comfortably within the 500 KB that crawlers will read.
