What is an AI visibility checker?+
It's a tool that tests whether AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's Gemini can actually access and crawl your website. It reads your live robots.txt, checks each AI user-agent, looks for an llms.txt and sitemap, and gives you a 0–100 visibility score with specific fixes.
How do I check if ChatGPT or Perplexity can access my website?+
Paste your URL and click Check. The tool evaluates the exact crawlers those engines use, ChatGPT-User and OAI-SearchBot for ChatGPT, PerplexityBot for Perplexity, ClaudeBot and Claude-User for Claude, Google-Extended for Gemini, against your robots.txt rules and shows Allowed or Blocked for each.
Which AI crawlers does it check?+
13 in total, across three groups. Search Engines: Googlebot, Bingbot. AI Training Crawlers: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, CCBot, Bytespider, Applebot-Extended, meta-externalagent. AI Answer Engines: ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot.
How is the AI visibility score calculated?+
It's a transparent, deterministic rollup: crawler access is worth up to 80 points (the share of the 13 agents your robots.txt allows) and a published llms.txt is worth 20 points, with a small penalty if your homepage carries a noindex directive. The same site always produces the same score, nothing is randomized.
Why would AI assistants be blocked from my site?+
The usual causes are a robots.txt rule (a 'Disallow: /' under 'User-agent: *' or a named AI bot), a leftover noindex in your meta robots tag or X-Robots-Tag header, or a firewall/CDN rule. This checker pinpoints which of these is blocking each crawler so you can fix the right one.
How do I make my website visible to AI?+
Allow the AI crawlers you want in robots.txt (the tool gives you a ready-to-paste snippet), remove any accidental noindex, publish a sitemap.xml, and add an llms.txt summarising your site. You can generate a valid llms.txt right inside this tool and then re-check to confirm your score improved.
What is llms.txt and does this tool detect it?+
llms.txt is a Markdown file at your domain root that gives AI answer engines a clean summary of your site. Yes, the checker probes for llms.txt and llms-full.txt and, if you don't have one, it can generate a valid llms.txt from your sitemap so you can publish it immediately.
Is allowing AI crawlers good or bad for my site?+
It's a strategic choice. Allowing AI answer-engine and training crawlers means your content can be surfaced and cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews, which is increasingly where discovery happens. Some sites prefer to block training crawlers while allowing answer engines. This tool shows both so you can decide deliberately.
Does this tool query ChatGPT or Perplexity to see if my brand is mentioned?+
No. It measures crawler access and AI-readiness signals from your own live robots.txt, llms.txt and page headers, everything is real and reproducible. Whether an AI actually mentions your brand also depends on your content, but a site the assistants can't crawl can never be cited at all, which is the gap this tool closes first.
Is the AI visibility checker free and private?+
Yes. It's completely free with no signup, and it only reads your site's public files (robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap) and homepage, the same things any crawler sees. Nothing you enter is stored.
How often should I run an AI visibility check?+
Run it after any change to robots.txt, a site migration, a CDN/firewall update, or a big content launch, and periodically as AI crawlers evolve. New AI user-agents appear regularly, so a site that was fully visible last year may have gaps today.