Robots.txt checker

What is a Robots.txt Checker?

The Robots.txt Checker fetches a website's robots.txt file and parses it to show which paths are disallowed for crawlers and which sitemaps are declared, without you having to manually read the raw file.

What to Look For

• Accidental blanket disallows — A leftover Disallow: / from a staging environment can deindex an entire production site.
• Declared sitemaps — Confirms your sitemap.xml is actually referenced so search engines can discover it automatically.
• Per-bot rules — Different rules for Googlebot, Bingbot, or AI crawlers can be reviewed at a glance.

Why It Matters

robots.txt is one of the first files search engines fetch when crawling a domain. A single misconfigured rule can silently block large sections of a site from ever being indexed.