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Can AI assistants read your website?

If ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity cannot open your pages, they cannot quote you. Enter your address to see which AI crawlers are let in and which are turned away.

Works for any website. We read two public pages, your robots.txt and your homepage, and store nothing.

What this check looks at

What is an AI crawler?

An AI crawler is a program that an AI company sends to read web pages. Some build the search results an assistant uses to answer questions. Others collect text to train future models. They are separate, and you can allow one kind and refuse the other.

How can a site block them without meaning to?

There are two common ways. A line in robots.txt that refuses a crawler by name, often added by a plugin. Or a firewall or CDN setting that turns away AI bots before they reach the site. This check tests both.

Which crawlers matter if I want to be quoted?

The ones that feed live answers: OAI-SearchBot and ChatGPT-User for ChatGPT, PerplexityBot for Perplexity, Claude-SearchBot for Claude, plus Googlebot and Bingbot. Training crawlers such as GPTBot or Google-Extended are a different choice, and blocking them does not remove you from search.

How exact is the firewall test?

We request your homepage once as a normal browser and once each with the names of three AI crawlers, then compare the answers. Real crawlers come from their own networks, so your firewall may treat them a little differently. A block shown here is a strong sign that something needs a look.

My crawlers are allowed. Why am I still not quoted?

Being readable is only the entry ticket. Assistants quote pages that answer the question plainly and that already do well in search. That is the part Nora AI Publisher helps with: articles that put the answer first, published to your WordPress site for you.

Readable is step one. Quotable is step two.

Nora AI Publisher writes articles that answer the question in the first lines and publishes them to WordPress. 2 posts a month free.