Is PerplexityBot blocked on your site?
PerplexityBot is the Perplexity crawler that builds the index the model answers from. If your robots.txt blocks it, that engine cannot read your pages, and a page it cannot read is a page it can never cite.
Free, no sign-up. We fetch one public file and read it. Nothing is stored.
Questions
- What does PerplexityBot do?
- PerplexityBot is used by Perplexity. It builds the index the model answers from.
- Should I block PerplexityBot?
- Usually not. This crawler is how Perplexity reaches your pages when answering a question, so blocking it removes you from answers you could have been cited in.
- Is this check free?
- Yes, and there is no signup. We fetch one public file, robots.txt, and read the rules for this user-agent. You see the full result, including every failure we find.
Check something else
- Is Perplexity-User blocked on your site?Tests the Perplexity-User user-agent specifically, which fetches a page live when a user asks about it.
- Is GPTBot blocked on your site?Tests the GPTBot user-agent specifically, which builds the index the model answers from.
- Is ClaudeBot blocked on your site?Tests the ClaudeBot user-agent specifically, which builds the index the model answers from.
- Is your llms.txt valid?Reads and parses the llms.txt file itself, rather than testing a crawler rule.