What does the robots.txt tester do?

The robots.txt tester fetches and analyzes a website's robots.txt file, shows you all user-agent rules, and lets you test whether a specific URL path is allowed or blocked for different crawlers such as Googlebot or Bingbot.

Can I test URLs for different user-agents?

Yes. You can choose common crawlers like Googlebot, Googlebot-Image, Bingbot or a custom user-agent and instantly see if a given path is allowed or disallowed according to the robots.txt rules.

Do I need my robots.txt file to be live?

No. You can either fetch the live robots.txt from a website URL or paste your own robots.txt content directly into the tool, which is useful for staging environments or work in progress.

Is this robots.txt tester free?

Yes. The robots.txt tester on PowerSEOTools.online is completely free to use with no registration, login or usage limits.

Is it safe to paste my robots.txt here?

Yes. The tool is designed for technical SEO audits and does not store your robots.txt content for long term. For extra privacy, you can also host a similar script on your own server.

Robots.txt Tester & Analyzer

Fetch and inspect robots.txt, see all crawler rules and test whether specific URL paths are allowed or blocked for different user-agents.

Website URL

Enter your website URL. The tool will automatically request https://yourdomain.com/robots.txt.

Source options

Use pasted robots.txt instead of live URL

Turn this on if you want to validate a draft robots.txt or one from a private/staging environment.

Robots.txt content

Source

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URL or pasted robots.txt

HTTP Status

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Waiting for analysis…

Content-Type

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Reported by the server (if fetched)

File Size

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Approximate uncompressed size

Last Modified

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If provided by the server

User-agent groups

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Unique groups of crawler rules

User-agent lines

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User-agent directives

Allow rules

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Number of Allow directives

Disallow rules

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Number of Disallow directives

Sitemap directives

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Sitemap: lines in robots.txt

Crawl-delay lines

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Crawl-delay directives

Test URL access

Choose a crawler and path to see whether it is allowed or blocked according to the current robots.txt rules.

User-agent

Pick a crawler you want to test.

Custom user-agent

Only used when "Custom user-agent" is selected.

URL path to test

You can enter either a path (e.g. /blog/post/) or a full URL. Query strings are supported.

Issues & suggestions

Free Online Robots.txt Tester & Analyzer

The Robots.txt Tester from PowerSEOTools.online helps you understand and debug how crawlers see your site. It fetches and parses your robots.txt file, shows you user-agent groups and rules, and lets you test whether specific URL paths are allowed or blocked for different bots.

When Should You Check Robots.txt?

After launching a new site or migration to make sure important pages are not accidentally blocked.
Before opening a staging or test environment to search engines.
When you see "Submitted URL blocked by robots.txt" warnings in Google Search Console.
During technical SEO audits to confirm crawler access for key sections like /blog/, /shop/ or /images/.

Best Practices for Robots.txt

Keep the file small and simple so that it is easy to maintain and debug.
Use User-agent: * for generic rules and more specific user-agents when you need special cases.
Avoid blocking CSS and JS files that are needed to render pages correctly.
Add Sitemap: lines to point crawlers at your XML sitemaps.
Remember that robots.txt is a crawl directive, not a security feature. Do not use it to hide sensitive URLs.

Combine this robots.txt tester with other Website Management tools on PowerSEOTools.online like the HTTP Header Checker, Redirect Checker and XML Sitemap Validator for a complete technical SEO toolkit directly in your browser.