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Can Google and AI find perplexity.ai?
67 / 100Score out of 100: the fewer and smaller the problems below, the higher. Checked 2026-09-28 10:01 UTC from the outside, the way a crawler sees it.
Fix these first
The problems that cost you the most visibility, worst first. Each one says why it matters and how to fix it.
1. Your site turns away crawlers it does not know
It answered 403 to our checker. That is usually a firewall or bot shield. Google usually gets through, but AI answer engines and smaller search engines often do not, and then they cannot read or cite you.
Fix: In your firewall or host settings (for example Cloudflare Bot Fight Mode), allow verified search and AI crawlers.
2. No llms.txt file
An optional file that gives AI tools a plain summary of your site. Google says it does not affect search; coding assistants and agents do read it. Nice to have, not a ranking factor.
Fix: Add /llms.txt with one paragraph about you and links to your key pages.
Who is allowed to read your site
Read from your robots.txt. Blocked means that search engine or AI cannot read your pages, so it cannot show or cite them.
- Google Search Googlebotallowed
- Bing (also feeds ChatGPT search and Copilot) Bingbotallowed
- ChatGPT search OAI-SearchBotallowed
- ChatGPT reading a link ChatGPT-Userallowed
- Perplexity PerplexityBotallowed
- Claude search Claude-SearchBotallowed
- Gemini (Google AI) Google-Extendedallowed
- OpenAI model training GPTBot training onlyallowed
- Anthropic model training ClaudeBot training onlyallowed
From your robots.txt.
Already good
Nothing to do here.
- Google and Bing are allowed to read your site
- AI answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) are allowed in
- Sitemap found with 0 pages
- Served over https
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