- Are they let in
- Your pages read
- Told what to fix
ChatGPT reads websites. Can it read yours?
Answer engines send software to read your pages. Ranko checks whether yours lets it in, and what it finds
Are you letting them in
Many sites turn these readers away without ever knowing
Your pages, read properly
A hundred pages checked the way those readers see them
One score for your site
A single number, and whether it moved since last time
Told what to change
Each problem comes with instructions, not just a warning
How it works
One line in one file can hide your whole site.
Answer engines look for permission before they read a website. Plenty of sites refuse it entirely by accident.
Site health audit
Find out what an AI sees when it visits
Whether it is allowed in, how much it can read, and what to fix first.
What Ranko looks at
Permission first, then whether your pages can be read
One number for your site
It climbs as you work through the problems found
The mistake most sites make
Turning these readers away without ever realising it
A list you can work
Fix it, snooze it, or tick it off and move on
Before anything else
Start here. The rest can wait.
Get this wrong and every other improvement is wasted effort.
Find out who you are turning away.
Most teams have never checked.
- ChatGPT, Perplexity and the rest.
- One line can block them all.
- A clear yes or no for each.
Tell the engines what your site covers.
A file some engines now expect.
- Ranko writes the file from your pages.
- Change anything you disagree with.
- Download it when you are happy.
Frequently asked questions
What is an AI crawler, in plain terms?
How would my site be blocking one?
Usually by accident. Every site keeps a small file listing who is allowed to read it, and these newer readers are often left out of it, or turned away by a setting nobody has revisited in years.
How is this different from an SEO audit?
What do I actually get back?
What is the llms.txt file for?
Find out what an AI sees when it visits.
Check whether the answer engines are let in, get one score for your site, and written instructions for every problem found.