NYNitish Yadavinnitishyadav.hashnode.dev·Aug 15 · 16 min readHow I Test Whether AI Crawlers Can Access a WebsiteBy Nitish Kumar Yadav, founder of FixAEOLast verified: August 15, 2026 I used to treat robots.txt as a yes-or-no test. If the crawler was not blocked, the site was crawlable. That answer is incomplete00