1 warning · 1 notice · 4 info · 1 not checked · 5 pass
66 crawlers named · 12 unrecognised
What this file says about crawlers
Not checked
Who this file lets in
AI Data Scraper1 allowed, 12 blocked
Unrecognised all 11 blocked
AI Search Crawler all 8 blocked
Uncategorized all 7 blocked
Intelligence Gatherer1 allowed, 5 blocked
AI Assistant all 5 blocked
Undocumented AI Agent all 3 blocked
Fetcher3 allowed, 2 blocked
Path Access Checker
Detailed Analysis
Warning
4 rules name a location nobody would have guessed
Rules name a sensitive location made specific by a qualifier or by where it sits, or a spreadsheet by its full path.
Consequence. A bare "/backup" is in every scanner wordlist; "/backup-2023/" is in none. Listing it advertises the location to the readers least likely to honour the rule.
If that is not intended. Put these locations behind authentication or remove them; once they are protected, the line can stay or go. Responses behind authentication are not indexed, so they need no "noindex". Content that is public by design and only has to stay out of search wants a "noindex" without the Disallow: a crawler only sees a noindex on a page it may fetch.
Disallow: /athletic/global-color-test.phpL54"test" below the first level
Disallow: /athletic/global-font-test.phpL55"test" below the first level
Disallow: /athletic/following-feed-test/*L62"test" below the first level
Disallow: /athletic/feed-test/L64"test" below the first level
Notice
1 rule is declared more than once
The same directive and path appear repeatedly within one group.
Consequence. Duplicates have no effect on crawling, but they inflate the file toward the 500 KB limit and usually signal that the file is generated without dedup.
If that is not intended. Remove the repeats.
disallow: /searchL113Already declared on line 81 for *, Googlebot
If that is the intention. If your intention is to keep the site out of AI-generated answers, the current configuration achieves that.
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.
If that is the intention. If your intention is to prevent assistants from fetching pages when a person asks for them, the current configuration achieves that.
Consequence. When someone asks an assistant to open a page on this site, it cannot be retrieved. These requests are made because a person asked for that specific page, not to collect content in bulk.
If that is not intended. Allow these agents globally, or only on the sections you want retrievable.
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.
Info
2 rules suggest sensitive files may exist
Wildcard patterns name no location, but suggest such files may exist under public paths.
Consequence. A pattern such as "/*.sql$" discloses nothing a reader can request directly. It does say what kind of file the site expects to have lying around.
If that is not intended. Verify that files matching these patterns are not served.
