robots.txt report

ground.news

https://ground.news/

B

78/100

Complexity 71/100

How scoring works
User Agents
11
Rules
33
Sitemaps
0
Warning
1
File Size
538 B
Cached result · Expires in 2 days 13 hours

1 thing to look at

1 warning · 1 info · 7 pass

11 crawlers named · 2 unrecognised

What this file says about crawlers

Who this file lets in

  • Search Engine Crawler all 6 blocked
  • SEO Crawler all 1 blocked
  • Uncategorized all 1 blocked
  • Unrecognised all 1 blocked
  • Every other crawler all 1 allowed
  • AI Data Scraper all 1 allowed

Path Access Checker

Detailed Analysis

Warning

No sitemap is declared

The file contains no "Sitemap:" line.

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.

Info

1 of 6 search engines are blocked

Blocked: YandexBot.

  • YandexBotYandexL9

    Yandex

    "Disallow: /" blocks YandexBot.

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.

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

AI training crawlers can reach the site

All 6 checked AI training crawlers are allowed at the site root.

Pass

Page indexing directives are consistent

1 meta tag and 0 X-Robots-Tag headers, with no contradictions.

  • <meta name="robots" content="noimageindex">Page HTML
Pass

No syntax problems

Every line parses as a directive crawlers understand.

Pass

File size is 538 bytes

Comfortably within the 500 KB that crawlers will read.