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Is your store visible to ChatGPT?

Paste your store's address. We read its robots.txt by the rules crawlers follow and tell you whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Bing may read your home page, and whether Google may use it for Gemini. The rest of a first look at the store follows.

Free, with no sign-up. We use the address once and store neither it nor the report.

The checkup runs in your browser with JavaScript, which is off here. The list below says what it reads, and a store review covers all of it and more, with a person. How the store review works

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How it works

  1. 1. Paste your store's address.

  2. 2. We read its robots.txt for 9 AI and search crawlers, by the rules of the robots.txt standard (RFC 9309).

  3. 3. You see which of them may read your home page, then the markup AI tools read and the rest of the first look.

What we check

What the check reads, AI visibility first.

Your robots.txt, read for each crawler the way the standard says a crawler must, then the page itself: the HTML the store sends, its llms.txt and its sitemap. Nothing that JavaScript adds later, and no speed test.

Platform. Which platform the store runs on, from signs in its HTML and headers. Shown, never judged.

AI visibility

  • Whether robots.txt lets GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and Bingbot read the home page.
  • An llms.txt file. Nice to have, not a ranking factor.

Basics

  • The store opens over HTTPS.
  • Where the address ends up, and how many redirects it takes.
  • How long the page takes to start arriving at our server.
  • The page says which language it is in.
  • The page has a viewport tag for phones, and lets shoppers zoom.

Search

  • The page title, and its length.
  • The meta description, and its length.
  • One main heading (H1) on the page.
  • The canonical tag points at the page itself or its main address.
  • Nothing tells search engines to leave the page out.
  • A sitemap, found through robots.txt or at /sitemap.xml.

Sharing

  • The share title, description and image (Open Graph tags).

Structured data

  • The types of structured data (JSON-LD) on the page.
  • Product markup on a product page.
  • Organization markup on the home page.

Weight

  • How many scripts the page loads, and from how many outside hosts.
  • Scripts in the head that hold up the page (no async or defer).
  • Images without a width and height.
  • Images below the first few that are not lazy-loaded.

Trust pages

  • Links to shipping, returns, privacy, terms and contact pages.

Images

  • Images without alt text.

Questions

Questions about AI visibility.

Can this tell me whether ChatGPT recommends my store?

No. It does not ask ChatGPT anything. It tells you whether the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Bing may read your home page, and whether the page carries the structured data AI tools read. Being let in comes first, and it does not mean you will be named.

Which crawlers does it check?

It reads your robots.txt for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and Bingbot, by the rules of RFC 9309, the robots.txt standard. For each one it says whether it may read your home page and what it does.

Should I block AI crawlers?

That is your call, and the report tells the kinds apart. A training crawler such as GPTBot collects pages that models are trained on, and blocking it does not decide whether you show up in search answers. A search crawler such as OAI-SearchBot or PerplexityBot finds the pages those answers come from, and blocking it can keep your pages out of them.

Do I need an llms.txt file?

It is optional: a plain summary of a site that some AI tools read. It is nice to have and not a ranking factor, so the check shows whether you have one and never counts it against you.

Is the check free, and do you keep my address?

It is free, with no sign-up. The address is used once, to run the check, and neither it nor the report is stored or logged. If you book a store review from the report, the booking form is given the address, so you do not type it again.

Anthony Havrik, founder of Craftive

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