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Free AI Readiness Checker: Is Your Site Visible to ChatGPT?

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AI Readiness Checker

Find out if ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity can actually read your site. Get a scored AI readiness report across 9 crawlers, with ranked fixes you can act on today.

What this tool checks

This tool fetches your page and checks how visible it is to AI crawlers like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google's AI Overview. It analyzes the raw HTML delivered on first load, before JavaScript runs.

  • Checks robots.txt and meta robots for AI crawler permissions
  • Analyzes server-rendered HTML content only
  • JavaScript-loaded content is not included in the analysis

For a full rendering view, use Google Search Console to see how Google crawls and renders your pages.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are AI crawlers?

AI crawlers are bots used by AI companies (OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc.) to read web pages and train or power their language models. Examples include GPTBot, Google-Extended, and ClaudeBot.

Why should I allow AI crawlers?

Allowing AI crawlers increases the chance your content is cited in AI-generated answers (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity). Blocking them means your brand is invisible in the AI-powered search landscape.

What is llms.txt?

llms.txt is an emerging standard (similar to robots.txt) that lets website owners give AI language models a curated, structured overview of their site content. Early adoption signals AI-friendliness and may improve how models reference your brand.

How does the AI Readiness score work?

The score (0-100) weighs five factors: whether each of the 9 major AI crawlers is allowed (40 pts), sitemap accessibility (20 pts), structured data (20 pts), semantic HTML (10 pts), and meta descriptions (10 pts).

Does this tool access my website?

Yes. We fetch your robots.txt, sitemap.xml, homepage HTML, and llms.txt to check crawler access, structure, and metadata. We do not store your content.

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A single robots.txt update can block GPTBot overnight. A competitor can overtake you in AI citations this week. Ooty SEO tracks your AI visibility daily and alerts you inside ChatGPT, Gemini, or Claude before you fall behind.

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Why AI Visibility Matters

AI search is not coming. It is here. ChatGPT has over 200 million weekly active users. Google's AI Overviews appear on roughly 30% of US searches. Perplexity processes millions of queries daily. When someone asks an AI assistant about your industry, your competitors, or your products, does it mention you?

AI assistants can only cite content they can access. If your robots.txt blocks GPTBot, your website does not exist inside ChatGPT. If Google-Extended is blocked, your content is less likely to appear in Gemini answers and AI Overviews. This is not theoretical. It is happening right now, for every query, every day.

This AI readiness checker scans whether the 9 major AI crawlers can reach your site and gives you a prioritized action list to fix what is broken. Think of it as a ChatGPT visibility test and AI SEO checker in one.

The 9 AI Crawlers This Tool Checks

GPTBot (OpenAI)

Collects content for ChatGPT training and knowledge. Blocking GPTBot excludes your site from ChatGPT's understanding of your industry. If your competitors allow it and you do not, they get cited and you do not.

ChatGPT-User (OpenAI)

The real-time browsing agent. When a user asks ChatGPT to check your website or find current information, this is the bot that visits. Blocking it makes your site unreachable during live conversations.

Google-Extended (Google)

Controls whether your content is used for Gemini and AI Overviews. Blocking it may reduce your visibility in Google's AI features while still allowing traditional search indexing. This is the most consequential crawler for most sites because Google controls 90%+ of search traffic.

GoogleOther (Google)

Used for experimental Google products and research. Blocking it may limit your inclusion in future AI integrations from Google.

PerplexityBot (Perplexity)

Powers Perplexity's AI search engine, which provides cited, sourced answers. Blocking it removes your site from Perplexity answers entirely. Perplexity users tend to be high-intent researchers.

ClaudeBot (Anthropic)

Used by Claude for training and knowledge. Blocking it excludes your content from Anthropic's AI products, including Claude's growing user base.

Bytespider (ByteDance)

Feeds TikTok's AI features and other ByteDance products. Relevant if your audience uses TikTok for search, which 40% of Gen Z users now do for certain query types.

CCBot (Common Crawl)

Maintains the open dataset that many AI models train on, including models beyond the major consumer brands. Blocking CCBot affects a wide range of AI systems simultaneously.

Applebot-Extended (Apple)

Powers Apple Intelligence and Siri. As Apple integrates more AI into iOS and macOS, this crawler becomes increasingly relevant for reaching the 1.5 billion active Apple device users.

Understanding Your AI Readiness Score

The score runs from 0 to 100, weighted across five factors:

  • Crawler access (40 points): Whether each of the 9 AI crawlers is allowed, blocked, or not mentioned in robots.txt. "Not mentioned" means allowed by default under the robots exclusion standard.
  • Sitemap accessibility (20 points): Whether AI crawlers can find and parse your sitemap to discover all your pages efficiently.
  • Structured data (20 points): Whether your pages use JSON-LD markup that helps AI systems understand your content type, properties, and relationships.
  • Semantic HTML (10 points): Whether your pages use proper heading hierarchy (h1 through h6) and semantic elements that make content machine-readable.
  • Meta descriptions (10 points): Whether key pages have descriptions that summarize their content for AI systems to parse and cite.

A score below 50 typically means at least one major AI crawler is blocked or critical technical signals are missing. Sites scoring above 80 are well-positioned to appear in ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity answers.

How to Improve Your AI Readiness

If your score is lower than expected, work through these steps in order:

  • Check your robots.txt for User-agent directives that block AI crawlers. If you are blocking GPTBot or Google-Extended, decide whether that is intentional. Use the Robots.txt Generator to build an updated file with AI crawler presets.
  • Add an llms.txt file at your domain root. This emerging standard gives AI models a curated summary of your site's key content, structured in Markdown. Early adoption signals AI-friendliness and helps models reference your brand more accurately.
  • Verify your sitemap is accessible and up to date. AI crawlers use sitemaps to discover content efficiently. Use the Sitemap Validator to check for structural errors and stale entries.
  • Add JSON-LD structured data to key pages. Use the Schema Markup Validator to verify your markup against Google's requirements for 8 rich result types.
  • Consider selective blocking. You can allow browsing crawlers (ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot) while blocking training crawlers (GPTBot, CCBot). This lets your site appear in real-time AI answers without contributing to training data. The robots.txt generator has presets for this exact configuration.
  • Run the SEO analyzer too. AI visibility and traditional SEO reinforce each other. The SEO Content Analyzer checks 44 signals across 7 dimensions, including E-E-A-T and schema, which directly affect how AI systems evaluate your content.
  • Check HTTP status codes. The HTTP Status Checker verifies that your pages return 200 and redirects resolve correctly, which affects whether AI crawlers can reach your content.

Related Guides

  • How AI Overviews impact SEO covers what Google's AI features mean for your traffic and visibility.
  • GEO vs SEO: the definitive guide explains how generative engine optimization differs from traditional SEO.
  • AI search visibility guide is a complete playbook for appearing in AI-generated answers.
  • Zero-click searches: what to do covers how to capture value when searchers never click through.