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AI Crawl Checker

Check if AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and other AI agents can read your page. Test your website's accessibility to AI bots instantly.

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How It Works

Three simple steps to understand how AI crawlers see your website

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Enter Your URL

Paste any webpage URL and we'll fetch it using real AI bot user agents including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and more.

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AI Bot Simulation

We crawl your page using the same user agents that ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI services use to read websites.

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Get Your Report

Receive a detailed report on content accessibility, performance, framework detection, structured data, and actionable recommendations.

What We Analyze

Our crawler uses ChatGPT's official GPTBot user agent to simulate how AI services actually see your website.

Content Accessibility

See the actual text content AI bots can read — filtered from scripts, styles, and non-visible elements.

Page Performance

Measure response time and page load speed as experienced by AI crawlers visiting your site.

AI Bot Blocking Detection

Detect if your server returns HTTP 402, 403, 429, or other blocking responses to AI crawlers.

Framework Detection

Identify 17+ web frameworks and platforms (React, Next.js, WordPress, Shopify, etc.) with version detection.

JSON-LD & Schema Analysis

Evaluate structured data markup that helps AI models understand your content's meaning and context.

Meta Information

Check title tags, meta descriptions, canonical URLs, and robots directives with SEO recommendations.

Quality Metrics

Analyze content density, HTML-to-text ratio, and overall content quality scores for AI readability.

Page Classification

Categorize pages as Server-Side Rendered, Single Page App, Hybrid, or Static to understand crawlability.

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about AI crawlability and how Sona helps you stay visible to AI agents.

An AI Crawl Checker tests whether AI crawlers like GPTBot (ChatGPT), ClaudeBot (Claude), and PerplexityBot can access and read your website content. It simulates how these AI bots see your page, checking for content accessibility, blocking, structured data, and more. This helps you ensure your brand appears in AI-generated answers.
AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity are increasingly how people discover brands and products. If AI crawlers can't read your website, your content won't appear in AI-generated answers — meaning you're invisible to a growing share of search traffic. Sona's Agent Analytics helps you monitor this continuously at sona.com.
This tool uses GPTBot's official user agent (used by ChatGPT/OpenAI) to fetch your page. It also checks your robots.txt for rules affecting GPTBot, ClaudeBot, ChatGPT-User, CCBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Bytespider, FacebookBot, and other AI bot user agents.
Yes, the AI Crawl Checker by Sona is completely free with no sign-up required. You get a full report on your page's AI crawlability including content accessibility scores, framework detection, structured data analysis, and actionable recommendations. For continuous monitoring, check out Sona's Agent Analytics at sona.com.
Sona Agent Analytics is a platform that tracks how AI agents discover, crawl, and reference your brand in real time. While this free tool gives you a one-time snapshot, Sona provides continuous monitoring, alerts when your AI visibility changes, and deep insights across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and more. Learn more at sona.com.
The AI crawl score (0-100) measures how well AI bots can access and understand your page. It factors in content accessibility (35%), meta tag quality (25%), structured data like JSON-LD (20%), and page performance (20%). A score above 70 means your page is well-optimized for AI crawlers. Below 40 means AI bots likely can't read your content effectively.
Key steps: 1) Ensure your page is server-side rendered (not a JavaScript-only SPA). 2) Add proper meta titles and descriptions. 3) Include JSON-LD structured data. 4) Don't block AI bots in your robots.txt. 5) Keep response times under 500ms. 6) Use semantic HTML. For ongoing optimization, Sona's Agent Analytics at sona.com provides continuous recommendations.
SEO optimizes for traditional search engines like Google. AEO (AI Engine Optimization) — also called GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) — optimizes for AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. While there's overlap, AEO focuses more on structured data, content clarity, and ensuring AI crawlers can access your content. Sona helps you track both at sona.com.

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