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Chrome Extension · Free

Robots Checker PRO

Why isn't this page indexed? You get one verdict plus every signal behind it: the robots.txt rule that matched, meta robots, X-Robots-Tag, canonical and HTTP status. Evaluated with Google's real matching algorithm, across 27 crawlers including 16 AI bots.

7 tabs 27 crawlers 0 data collected Manifest V3
Robots Checker PRO — Status tab showing a page blocked by robots.txt
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One clear verdict

Indexable, Noindex, Blocked by robots.txt or Canonicalised elsewhere, with every signal that produced it listed underneath.

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Which rule won

The file parsed into groups, your crawler's group highlighted, and the winning line marked in the source. Click the verdict to jump to it.

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AI crawlers by job

16 bots from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Perplexity, Meta, Apple and Common Crawl, split into training, AI search and live fetch.

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Directives, decoded

Meta robots and X-Robots-Tag broken into tokens, each marked applied or ignored. Canonical read from HTML and the Link header.

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Link checks

Every link tested against robots.txt, with nofollow, sponsored and ugc flagged, plus optional highlighting right on the page.

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Sitemaps & badge

Sitemaps from robots.txt checked for status and URL count. Optionally paint a green tick or red cross on the toolbar icon.

Most robots checkers do a rough substring match. This one implements Google's actual matching rules from the Robots Exclusion Protocol (RFC 9309).

  • Specificity, not order. The most specific user-agent group wins, rather than the first one that happens to match.
  • Longest path wins. On an equal-length tie, Allow beats Disallow.
  • Real wildcards. * and the $ end-anchor are handled properly, matched against path plus query.
  • Merged groups. Records sharing a user-agent are combined, the way Google combines them.

So when Googlebot has its own group with Allow: /, you'll see that it overrides the site-wide Disallow, instead of a false alarm.

Changelog

Every version, newest first.

v1.0.0Jul 19, 2026Initial release
  • Tabs: Status, robots.txt, Directives, AI Bots, Links, Sitemaps, Tools.
  • robots.txt matcher built to Google's spec: group specificity, longest-match, Allow wins ties, * and $ wildcards, merged groups.
  • Crawler picker with 27 user agents; every tab recomputes for the one you choose.
  • AI Bots matrix with 16 crawlers across 7 companies, split by training / AI search / live fetch, showing whether each is blocked by its own rule or inherits User-agent: *.
  • Canonical read from both the HTML tag and the Link HTTP header, with conflicts flagged.
  • URL tester, JSON export, on-page link highlighting, and an optional toolbar badge that follows your selected crawler.
  • Light and dark themes, both verified to meet WCAG AA contrast; full keyboard navigation.

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