Free checkuchicago.edu
Can Google and AI find uchicago.edu?
32 / 100Score out of 100: the fewer and smaller the problems below, the higher. Checked 2026-09-28 10:27 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. 1 page in your sitemap is broken
For example https://www.uchicago.edu/Research-and-Scholarship/Center/institute_for_population_and_precision_health answered 403. A sitemap full of dead links makes Google trust it less.
Fix: Remove dead pages from the sitemap or bring them back.
2. Pages in your sitemap are marked noindex
For example https://www.uchicago.edu/404-page. You are telling Google "list this" and "hide this" at the same time.
Fix: Either drop them from the sitemap or remove the noindex.
3. No main heading (H1) on your home page
Search engines and AI use the main heading to understand what the page is about.
Fix: Add one H1 that names what you offer.
1 more
- No llms.txt file: 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 298 pages
- Served over https
- Home page title is a good length
- Structured data found (WebSite)
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