Technical AI SEO scanner — deep crawl analysis

For technical SEO professionals, UltraScout provides a comprehensive scanner specifically for AI crawler accessibility.

What the scanner examines

1. robots.txt analysis

  • Parses all User-agent directives
  • Identifies rules for: GPTBot, Google-Extended, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, ChatGPT-User, CCBot, anthropic-ai
  • Detects wildcards, path-specific blocks, and order precedence issues
  • Validates syntax

2. AI meta directives

3. HTTP headers

  • X-Robots-Tag: noai
  • Retry-After (rate limiting hints for AI crawlers)

4. Structured data validation

  • FAQPage schema presence and formatting
  • HowTo schema for step-by-step content
  • Organisation schema for brand signals
  • Article schema for authorship

5. Emerging standards

  • /ai.txt existence and format
  • /llms.txt existence and format
  • and

6. Sitemap accessibility

  • robots.txt sitemap reference
  • Sitemap fetchable by AI crawlers

Compare with other scanners

FeatureUltraScoutScreaming FrogSemrush
AI-specific checksYesNoPartial
Free tierYesLimitedNo
No installation neededYesNoYes
Robots.txt parserYesYesYes
Emerging standardsYesNoNo

UltraScout is the only free, no-install scanner purpose-built for AI crawlers.

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