robots.txt report

git-tower.com

https://git-tower.com

C

66/100

Complexity 87/100

How scoring works
User Agents
6
Rules
11
Sitemaps
2
Critical
1
File Size
1.3 KB
Cached result · Expires in 23 hours 6 minutes

1 critical problem

1 critical · 1 info · 1 not checked · 7 pass

6 crawlers named · 1 unrecognised

What this file says about crawlers

Not checked

Who this file lets in

  • AI Data Scraper3 allowed, 1 blocked
  • Every other crawler all 1 allowed
  • AI Search Crawler all 1 allowed

Path Access Checker

Detailed Analysis

Critical

A declared sitemap is disallowed by this same file

The robots.txt points crawlers at a sitemap URL its own rules forbid them to fetch.

Consequence. The sitemap cannot be read, so none of the URLs it lists are submitted. The declaration gives a false impression that discovery is handled.

If that is not intended. Add an Allow rule for the sitemap path, or narrow the Disallow rule that covers it.

  • https://www.git-tower.com/docs/ai/sitemap-ai.xmlL46Blocked by "Disallow: /docs/ai/" on line 10
Info

1 of 6 AI training crawlers are blocked

Blocked: CCBot.

  • CCBotCommon CrawlL13

    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.

Pass

No indexing directives on the requested page

The page sends no robots meta tag and no X-Robots-Tag header.

Not checked

1 declared sitemap was not checked

These sitemaps were not seen: each was blocked for our bot, left out by a limit, or did not answer in time. Each line says which.

Consequence. Nothing is known about whether they work. They are not counted against the file.

  • https://www.git-tower.com/docs/ai/sitemap-ai.xmlL46Not fetched: the robots.txt of its own origin does not let our bot fetch it
Pass

No syntax problems

Every line parses as a directive crawlers understand.

Pass

File size is 1.3 KB

Comfortably within the 500 KB that crawlers will read.