robots.txt report

segment.com

https://segment.com

D

58/100

Complexity 50/100

How scoring works
User Agents
1
Rules
19
Sitemaps
0
Warning
3
File Size
976 B
Cached result · Expires in 1 day 1 hour

3 things to look at

2 warning · 1 notice · 8 pass

2 crawlers named · 1 unrecognised

Who this file lets in

  • Every other crawler all 1 allowed
  • Uncategorized all 1 allowed

Path Access Checker

Detailed Analysis

Warning

No sitemap is declared

The file contains no "Sitemap:" line.

Consequence. Crawlers have to discover every URL by following links. Pages that are deep, newly published, or poorly linked internally take longer to be found, and some may never be. A sitemap is the most direct way to hand a crawler the full list.

If that is not intended. Publish an XML sitemap and declare it with an absolute URL, e.g. "Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml". The line is global — it belongs outside any User-agent group and applies to every crawler.

Warning

1 rule names 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: /en-us/testL26"test" below the first level
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: 1L30
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="index">Page HTML
Pass

No syntax problems

Every line parses as a directive crawlers understand.

Pass

File size is 976 bytes

Comfortably within the 500 KB that crawlers will read.