robots.txt report

outrank.so

https://outrank.so

B

89/100

Complexity 82/100

How scoring works
User Agents
13
Rules
13
Sitemaps
11
Notice
1
File Size
1.3 KB
Cached result · Expires in 1 day 51 minutes

1 thing to look at

1 notice · 1 not checked · 8 pass

13 crawlers named · 1 unrecognised

Not checked

Who this file lets in

  • AI Data Scraper all 5 allowed
  • AI Search Crawler all 3 allowed
  • AI Assistant all 3 allowed
  • Undocumented AI Agent all 1 allowed
  • Every other crawler all 1 allowed

Path Access Checker

Detailed Analysis

Notice

Every URL is open to every crawler

The file declares user agents but no effective Disallow rule.

Consequence. Every URL is crawlable, including any that exist only for internal use. Crawl budget is spent evenly rather than on pages worth ranking.

If that is not intended. Consider disallowing sections with no search value — internal search results, faceted or parameterised URLs, cart and account pages.

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

AI training crawlers can reach the site

All 6 checked AI training crawlers 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.outrank.so/blog/sitemap.xmlL67Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
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.