Free Crawl Checker to Test If Your Pages Access to Googlebot and AI Search

The site crawlability refers to the ability of search engine bots to easily discover, access, read, and navigate without facing technical barriers. Now, good site crawlability requires a site to be easily crawled by both traditional search engines like Google, Bing and AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and others.

AI crawler is the bot that AI assistants send to read the public webs for response to users and for training. When buyers ask those AI assistants for recommendations, the LLMs can only talk about sites their AI crawlers could access and read.

No, ChatGPT is not a web crawler, but it deploys web crawlers to collect web information for training and answering users. GPTbot works for continuously scanning public web pages and training itself; the OAI-searchbot(or ChatGPT-User) works for fetching web pages in real time and responding to users' specific questions. You can check if your pages are crawlable by these 2 ChatGPT crawlers with Kairosy AI.

Generally, there are 3 main AI crawler types: search and citation crawlers, user-triggered fetchers, and training crawlers.Here are common AI crawlers: - ChatGPT: OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User - Perplexity: PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User - Claude: Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User(Claude-Web), ClaudeBot - Gemini: Google-Extended - Bing: Bingbot - Others: CCBot, Meta-Externalagent, Amazonbot, DuckAssistBot(DuckDuckGo), Applebot(apple AI), Bytespider(tiktok)

To check website crawlability yourself, you can use the URL Inspection tool in Google Search Console. If you wanna know if your web is crawlable by AI, you can read robots.txt for each bot’s User-agent group, then check the page for meta robots and X-Robots-Tag headers. To easily check your page crawlability, you can just run Kairosy AI crawlability test tool for free and know if your site is accessible for 15 crawlers in about 5 seconds!

Web crawlability determines whether search engines(such as Google or ChatGPT) can find and understand a page; indexability determines whether search tools will display a page in response to users’ queries.

To stop a search engine or AI assistant from crawling a page, you can edit the “disallow” rule in your robots.txt file. But disallowing Google-Extended (gemini AI crawler) in your site's robots.txt file does not affect your traditional Google Search rankings.

Blocking AI crawlers is invisibility by configuration. If you insist to block AI crawlers but still wanna get involved in AI answers, you can block AI trainer bots (like GPTBot, CCBot) but allow search bots (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot) to stay citable. However, you should be aware that adopting the AI crawler blocking strategy requires careful deliberation rather than blind adherence to a trend.

You’d better check your website's crawlability once a month. There are many factors that would change your sites’ robots files silently, like themes, plugins and CDN rules. So a monthly search engine and AI crawlability audit (and a quick re-test after every migration) is the habit that keeps your web always visible to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Perplexity and other search engines.

Crawlable by AI just means your web is readable in AI assistants. You need to do more optimization for AI recommendations, like fix negative brand sentiment, monitor AI visibility and improve your site reputation in AI. You can try Kairosy AI to scan and see what ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity actually tell users about you, and know how to fix if the answer stings. Now, Kairosy AI offers a 7-day free trial for all new users.