Robots + Sitemap Inspector — User Guide
This tool fetches a site's robots.txt, the page itself, and its first sitemap server-side, then reports indexing signals and crawler rules — with special attention to AI crawlers.
Quick start
- Enter a domain or a full page URL and click Inspect.
- Review the page signals (canonical, indexability, meta robots, X-Robots-Tag).
- Review the robots.txt parse, including AI/LLM crawler verdicts.
- Review the sitemap type and URL count.
Page signals
For the URL you enter, the tool reads:
- Canonical — the
rel="canonical"link, i.e. the page's preferred URL. - Indexability — whether
noindexappears in the meta robots tag or theX-Robots-Tagheader. - Meta robots — the
<meta name="robots">content (defaults toindex, followif absent). - X-Robots-Tag — the response header equivalent, often used for non-HTML files.
robots.txt
The robots.txt is fetched from the site origin and parsed into user-agent groups (allow/disallow rules) and declared sitemaps.
AI / LLM crawler rules
The tool evaluates well-known AI crawlers — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, PerplexityBot, Bytespider, Applebot-Extended, and more — and labels each:
- blocked — fully disallowed (
Disallow: /). - limited — some paths disallowed.
- allowed — no specific rule (falls back to
*), or explicitly allowed.
This is the fastest way to confirm whether your content is opted in or out of AI training and answer engines.
URL Path Access Tester
Test specific path routes (e.g. /api/private, /blog/post-1) against selected crawler User-Agents (Googlebot, GPTBot, Bingbot, ClaudeBot, *) in real-time to verify access permissions according to the domain's robots.txt rules.
Sitemap
The first sitemap (from robots.txt, or /sitemap.xml as a fallback) is fetched and classified as a sitemap index (links to child sitemaps) or a urlset (links to pages), with a count and a few sample entries.
Caveats
- Results reflect what the server returned to this tool; sites may serve different robots.txt or headers by user-agent or region.
- Only the first sitemap is fetched — large sites split URLs across many child sitemaps under an index.
- A missing robots.txt means all crawlers are allowed by default.