AI Visibility

How to Check if AI Can Find Your Website (Free)

By Adev Aarons · August 1, 2026

By Adev Aarons, Founder of Specularis · Updated July 2026

To check if AI can find your website, look at three things: does your robots.txt allow the AI crawlers, do you have Person and Organization schema, and do independent sources cite you. If all three are in place, ChatGPT and Perplexity can read you, identify you, and trust you enough to recommend you. Below is how to check each by hand, plus a free tool that checks all five signals in about a minute.

How do you check if AI crawlers can read your site?

Type your domain followed by /robots.txt into your browser, like yoursite.com/robots.txt. This file tells crawlers what they can and can’t access. Look for any Disallow line tied to these AI crawlers:

• GPTBot (OpenAI / ChatGPT)
• ClaudeBot and anthropic-ai (Anthropic / Claude)
• PerplexityBot (Perplexity)
• CCBot (Common Crawl, feeds many models)
• Google-Extended (Google’s AI training)

If you see Disallow: / under any of those, that crawler is blocked and cannot read a single page. If the file returns a 404, you have no robots.txt at all, which usually means everything is allowed by default. That is fine, though an explicit allow file is cleaner.

How do you check if AI knows who you are?

Right-click your homepage and choose “View Page Source,” then press Ctrl+F (or Cmd+F) and search for application/ld+json. That is your structured data. You want to see:

• A Person block with your name, job title, and a sameAs list of your real profiles
• An Organization block for your company, linked to the Person
• Ideally Article or FAQPage blocks on your content

If nothing comes up, AI has no clean way to tell who you are or what you do, and it will hesitate to name a business it cannot confidently identify.

How do you check if your content is quotable?

Read your homepage and top pages the way an AI would. Do you answer the real questions your customers ask, directly, in the first line? Or do you open with a slogan and bury the substance?

AI lifts clear, direct answers. Content that gets cited is answer-first: it states the answer up front and uses real questions as headings. If your pages read like a brochure, there is nothing for AI to quote.

How do you check if other sites back you up?

Search your name plus your company in Google, and also ask ChatGPT or Perplexity directly: “Who is [your name], and what does [your company] do?” Notice what comes back.

If the only source is your own website, you have no independent corroboration, and this is the pillar most businesses are weakest on. AI trusts you far more when press, directories, and reviews confirm who you are. If AI answers with “I don’t have information on that,” that is your gap.

How do you check the technical basics?

Four quick checks:

1. yoursite.com/sitemap.xml should load and list your pages.
2. Your site should be on HTTPS, not HTTP.
3. Your pages should not be set to noindex (check the page source for <meta name="robots" content="noindex">).
4. yoursite.com/llms.txt should exist, a simple file that tells AI what your site is about.

Any one of these missing can quietly undercut everything else.

The faster way: run a free audit

Checking all of this by hand takes time and a bit of technical know-how. We built a free tool that runs every one of these checks in about a minute and emails you a scored report, 0 to 100, with the exact fixes ranked by impact.

Run your free AI visibility audit here. No credit card, results in your inbox in minutes. It is the fastest way to see exactly where AI can and can’t find you.