AI Crawler Tester
Enter your URL and see exactly how AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) perceive your page. Find out what content they can extract and what they're missing.
Enter your website URL above to see how AI crawlers perceive your page. We'll simulate GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot perspectives and show you exactly what content they can extract.
🕷️ AI Crawler Behavior & Crawlability FAQ
Discover how search bots and AI agents read your website and how to fix accessibility gaps.
1. Do AI crawlers execute JavaScript?
Generally, **no**. Unlike Googlebot (which has a rendering queue to execute JS), AI crawlers (like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot) fetch raw HTML directly to save compute. If your site relies on client-side JS (like standard SPA React/Vue), the bot sees an empty page. You should use SSR (Server-Side Rendering) or pre-rendering.
2. Which AI bots are simulated by this tester?
We analyze your page from three crawler perspectives: **GPTBot** (OpenAI's scraping bot), **ClaudeBot / Claude-SearchBot** (Anthropic's training and search indexers), and **PerplexityBot** (Perplexity's real-time retrieval crawler). This shows you how these distinct bots read your page structure.
3. Why do canonicals and schemas matter for AI answer engines?
Answer engines like Perplexity pull real-time sources, so a clear canonical URL helps them point at the primary version of a page rather than a duplicate. Structured data (such as FAQ schema) exposes question-answer blocks that are easy to extract and cite.
4. How do I block crawlers if I don't want them scraping my site?
You can add Disallow rules in your robots.txt file for user-agents like GPTBot or ClaudeBot. To block all AI scrapers globally, you can block their known IP ranges or user-agents using a WAF (Web Application Firewall).
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