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robots.txt report

inc.com

https://www.inc.com/

All reports for inc.comPage not read: HTTP 403
A

100/100

Complexity 100/100

How scoring works
User Agents
55
Rules
76
Sitemaps
3
Pass
0
File Size
2.0 KB

No problems found

6 checks passed · 2 policy notes

54 crawlers named · 12 unrecognised

What this file says about crawlers

Not checked

Who this file lets in

  • Unrecognised all 11 blocked
  • AI Data Scraper2 allowed, 10 blocked
  • Undocumented AI Agent all 4 blocked
  • AI Search Crawler3 allowed, 2 blocked
  • AI Assistant3 allowed, 2 blocked
  • Uncategorized2 allowed, 2 blocked
  • Intelligence Gatherer2 allowed, 1 blocked
  • Scraper all 1 blocked

Path Access Checker

Detailed Analysis

Info

1 of 4 AI answer engines are blocked

Blocked: PerplexityBot.

  • PerplexityBotPerplexityL62

    Perplexity answers

    "Disallow: /" blocks PerplexityBot.

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.

Info

5 of 6 AI training crawlers are blocked

Blocked: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider, CCBot, Amazonbot.

  • GPTBotOpenAIL41

    OpenAI model training

    "Disallow: /" blocks GPTBot.

  • ClaudeBotAnthropicL71

    Anthropic model training

    "Disallow: /" blocks ClaudeBot.

  • BytespiderByteDanceL101

    ByteDance model training

    "Disallow: /" blocks Bytespider.

  • CCBotCommon CrawlL104

    Common Crawl, widely redistributed as training data

    "Disallow: /" blocks CCBot.

  • AmazonbotAmazonL95

    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 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

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, 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

3 sitemaps declared

Every declared sitemap is an absolute URL and is crawlable.

  • https://www.inc.com/sitemap_index.xmlL142
  • https://www.inc.com/sitemap/sitemap_news.xmlL143
  • https://www.inc.com/sitemap/podcasts.xmlL144
Pass

No syntax problems

Every line parses as a directive crawlers understand.

Pass

File size is 2.0 KB

Comfortably within the 500 KB that crawlers will read.