robots.txt report

notion.so

https://notion.so

C

65/100

Complexity 96/100

How scoring works
User Agents
6
Rules
17
Sitemaps
11
Critical
2
File Size
1.1 KB
Cached result · Expires in 1 day 39 minutes

1 critical problem

1 critical · 1 notice · 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

  • SEO Crawler all 4 blocked
  • AI Data Scraper all 1 blocked
  • Every other crawler all 1 allowed

Path Access Checker

Detailed Analysis

Critical

2 declared sitemaps 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.

  • https://www.notion.com/pages/sitemap.xmlL38Responded HTTP 404
  • https://www.notion.com/product/sitemap.xmlL39Responded HTTP 404
Notice

1 rule can never take effect

A broader rule of the same type already covers these paths.

Consequence. These lines change nothing. They are harmless, but they add length to a file that has a size limit, and they make the real policy harder to read.

If that is not intended. Remove the redundant rules, or narrow the broader rule if it is catching more than intended.

  • disallow: /lp/webinars/*L13Already covered by "disallow: /lp/webinars/" on line 12
Info

1 of 6 AI training crawlers are blocked

Blocked: Amazonbot.

  • AmazonbotAmazonL25

    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

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

2 declared sitemaps were 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://sitemaps.notion.com/sitemap-categories.xmlL42Not fetched: it is on another origin, whose robots.txt could not be read
  • https://sitemaps.notion.com/sitemap-collections.xmlL43Not fetched: it is on another origin, whose robots.txt could not be read
Pass

No syntax problems

Every line parses as a directive crawlers understand.

Pass

File size is 1.1 KB

Comfortably within the 500 KB that crawlers will read.