Can Perplexity read your website?
Find what stops Perplexity reading your site — and get the exact fixes, plus your full AI readiness report.
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What we check
Perplexity answers questions primarily through live citation — it needs to fetch, index and reference sources in something close to real time. That makes crawler access and content clarity especially important here.
- robots.txt rules for PerplexityBot
- Whether content is present without JavaScript execution
- Whether facts and claims are structured clearly enough to cite
- Sitemap and page discovery health
Crawlers involved
PerplexityBot
Perplexity AI
Crawls and indexes content to power live citations inside Perplexity answers.
Explore the related checker →Common problems
PerplexityBot blocked by generic AI-blocking rules
Some "block all AI crawlers" robots.txt templates catch PerplexityBot along with less desirable bots.
Facts buried in narrative copy
Specific, citable claims are present but wrapped in marketing language rather than stated plainly.
How to fix them
Allow PerplexityBot explicitly
Add a specific Allow directive if you want to be eligible for citation.
State facts plainly
A short, direct sentence stating a specific fact is far easier to cite than the same fact wrapped in three qualifying clauses.
Frequently asked
Does Perplexity crawl my whole site or just the homepage?
Perplexity's crawler follows internal links and your sitemap similarly to a search engine, so overall site structure and discoverability matter, not just the homepage.