Crawlability Checker
This crawlability checker tests whether a search engine can actually reach one of your pages. Paste a URL and it runs the four checks a crawler runs, in the order a crawler runs them: can the URL be discovered, is Googlebot allowed to request it, does the server answer cleanly, and does it resolve to a single final address. It reports which check breaks first, because everything after the first break is never reached.
It is a free crawlability checker — no sign-up, no email, and nothing you enter is stored.
Crawlability checker
Enter any public URL. This runs the four checks a crawler runs, in the order it runs them, and shows you which one breaks. Nothing is stored and nothing is emailed.
What each check means
A crawlability test is only useful if you know what to do with the result. Here is what each of the four stages is actually asking, and what fixes it.
1. Is the URL discoverable?
A crawler cannot request a URL it has never heard of. This stage reads the sitemaps your site publishes — taking the Sitemap: lines from robots.txt, and following a sitemap index down to the child that would hold this page — and reports whether your URL is listed. If it is missing, the page is relying entirely on internal links to be found.
2. Is Googlebot allowed to request it?
This reads your live robots.txt and evaluates it the way Google does: the most specific matching user-agent group wins, then the longest matching rule wins, and an Allow beats a Disallow of exactly the same length. When a rule blocks the URL, the tool names the exact line, so you are not left guessing which of forty rules did it. That makes this stage a robots txt checker in its own right, evaluated against Googlebot rather than against a generic parser.
3. Does the server answer cleanly?
The URL is requested and the status code and response time are recorded. Anything in the 5xx range, or a response slow enough to time out, ends the crawl there. A 401, 403, 429 or 503 is reported separately as not testable rather than broken — many sites serve a challenge to unknown clients while serving verified search engines perfectly well, and calling that a fault would be a false alarm about a healthy page.
4. Does it resolve to one address?
Redirects are followed hop by hop and every hop is shown. One redirect straight to the destination is the target state. Two or more is a chain worth collapsing, and a loop returns nothing at all.
What this crawlability checker cannot tell you
Two limits, stated plainly, because a tool that hides them is worse than no tool.
- It cannot see your internal links. Sitemap membership is only half of discovery. The other half is whether any page links to this one, and proving that needs a crawl of the whole site rather than a fetch of one URL. A page can pass this check and still be an orphan.
- It reports what your site returns to this checker, now. It is not what Google did. Verified crawlers are identified by reverse DNS and are often treated differently, so for what Google itself received, use Search Console's URL Inspection tool on a property you own.
Within those limits it is precise: every result above is something the tool actually measured on a live request, not an estimate.
Crawlability checker FAQs
How to test crawlability of a page
Enter the URL above. The checker runs the four stages in crawler order and stops you at the first break. To check crawlability across a whole site rather than one URL, run the same four checks against a sample of pages from each template — template-level problems are the ones that matter, because one robots.txt rule or one navigation change affects every page built the same way.
Is my page blocked by robots txt?
The second check answers exactly that, and names the rule that did it. Worth knowing: a robots.txt block does not reliably keep a page out of search results. Google's documentation is explicit that a disallowed URL can still be indexed if other pages link to it, and that a noindex rule on a blocked page is never seen, because the crawler cannot fetch the page to read it.
How do i test if google can crawl my page without Search Console?
That is what this tool is for — it needs no access to your site and no verified property, because every check it runs is made from public information: your robots.txt, your sitemaps, and the response your server gives to an ordinary request. If you do have Search Console access for the site, use URL Inspection as well; it reports what Google actually received, which no external tool can see.
Does a website crawlability test prove my page will rank?
No, and any tool implying otherwise is selling something. Crawlability is reachability — the first gate, and the cheapest one to fix. Indexing is a separate decision the search engine makes after it has read the page, and ranking comes after that. Passing all four checks means nothing is stopping the page being read; it says nothing about whether the page deserves to win.
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