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Free AI Access Check

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Can AI Read My Site?

A free check of one public page at /ai-access-check. It needs no account and no credits, uses no AI, and stores nothing: the result is shown once, in your browser. It answers one question: can AI search engines fetch and read this page?

  1. Open Can AI read my site? from the home page or the dashboard checklist
  2. Enter any public page address and choose Check this page
  3. Wait up to a minute: we fetch the page several times from our servers
A result for https://example.com: no access problems found, robots.txt allows search crawlers, user-requested fetches and training crawlers, the first HTML has readable text, and every crawler name gets the same answer as a browser.
A result: one line per test, and how the server answered each crawler name.

What It Tests

robots.txt, by crawler purpose

Whether your robots.txt lets each kind of crawler fetch the page: AI search crawlers (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot, Bingbot, Googlebot), user-requested fetches (ChatGPT-User, Perplexity-User, Claude-User) and model training crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, CCBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, meta-externalagent). Blocking training crawlers is shown as your policy choice, never as a problem: it does not hide your pages from AI search. The rules are read the way RFC 9309 says, the same way as the AI Bot Permissions check in a full scan.

How your server answers each crawler name

We fetch the page once like a browser and once with the name of each search and user-fetch crawler, then compare. A crawler is treated differently when its status differs from the browser's or it receives less than half as much content. Our requests come from our servers, not from the real crawlers' addresses, so every difference is marked unverified: it is a lead to check in your server or CDN logs, not proof that a provider is blocked.

Readable text in the first HTML

Whether the HTML your server sends already contains readable text, or the page is an empty shell that JavaScript fills in later. Many AI fetchers do not run JavaScript, so they only see the first HTML.

Snippet controls

Whether a robots meta tag or an X-Robots-Tag header tells search engines not to index the page or not to show its text (noindex, nosnippet, max-snippet:0, none).

Reading the Result

No access problems found
Every test passed: AI search crawlers may fetch the page and can read it
Needs attention
At least one test found something that keeps AI search out or hides the text
Partly tested
Some rows could not be tested; the others are reliable
Could not test
The page timed out, answered everyone with an error or showed a bot challenge
Could not test is not blocked. A firewall or CDN that refuses our servers may still let the real crawlers in. Being readable does not guarantee that an AI answer will mention you: a full scan also looks at content, structure and more.

Limits

  • Without an account: 5 checks per hour and 20 per day from one network.
  • Signed in: a daily allowance on your account instead of the network limit.
  • Each website can be checked 10 times per hour in total, by everyone together, so the check is never used to flood a site.
  • When too many checks run at the same time, you are asked to try again in a minute.
  • Only public addresses are fetched; private and internal addresses are refused.