robots.txt report

pdffiller.com

https://pdffiller.com

D

58/100

Complexity 69/100

How scoring works
User Agents
2
Rules
32
Sitemaps
21
Critical
2
File Size
2.4 KB
Cached result · Expires in 1 day 13 minutes

1 critical problem

1 critical · 1 notice · 1 not checked · 8 pass

2 crawlers named · 1 unrecognised

Not checked

Who this file lets in

  • Every other crawler all 1 allowed
  • Intelligence Gatherer 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.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_form_irs_index.xmlL41Responded HTTP 404
  • https://www.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_form_new_flow_index.xmlL44Responded HTTP 404
Notice

Crawl-delay is declared 1 time and Google ignores it

Crawl-delay was never part of the standard. Google has never supported it; Bing and Yandex do.

Consequence. Any rate limit intended for Googlebot is not being applied. If the goal was to reduce load from Google specifically, it is not working.

If that is not intended. Set the crawl rate for Google in Search Console instead. Keep the directive if the limit is meant for Bing or Yandex, which do honour it.

  • Crawl-delay: 1L36
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

Page indexing directives are consistent

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

  • <meta name="robots" content="noodp, noydir">Page HTML
Not checked

11 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://www.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_csign_index.xmlL48Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
  • https://www.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_document_verb_index.xmlL49Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
  • https://www.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_synonyms_index.xmlL50Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
  • https://www.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_apipages_index.xmlL51Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
  • https://www.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_b2b_index.xmlL52Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
  • https://www.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_integrations_index.xmlL53Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
  • https://www.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_competitors_index.xmlL54Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
  • https://www.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_functionality_localization_index.xmlL55Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
  • https://www.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_functionality_index.xmlL56Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
  • https://www.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_general_index.xmlL57Not fetched: only the first few sitemaps are fetched, within a time limit and the site's Crawl-delay
  • https://www.pdffiller.com/new-sitemaps/sitemap_guides_index.xmlL58Not 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 2.4 KB

Comfortably within the 500 KB that crawlers will read.