AI Crawl Checker

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.

They solve different problems. The AI Crawl Checker (this tool) tests a single URL in seconds to answer one question: can AI bots technically read this specific page right now? It's ideal for diagnosing a particular page before publishing, after a site change, or when troubleshooting why a page isn't showing up in AI answers. The AI Visibility Checker at ai-visibility.sona.com does a full site-wide audit across up to 15 pages, checks whether AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity will actually discover and cite your content, and generates ready-to-deploy fix files like robots.txt and llms.txt. Think of this as the quick single-page diagnosis, and the Visibility Checker as the full site strategy audit.

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.