What does AI see?

Free AI visibility checker: what we test

Most "can AI see my site" tools only read your robots.txt. whataisee fetches your homepage the way the AI robots do, with no JavaScript, and grades 5 parts worth 100 points. Every lost point is explained, every fix is copyable, and one button gives you a complete fix-it prompt for your own AI assistant.

• Access (30). Does your rules file (robots.txt) let in the 10 AI robots: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, Google-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, Applebot-Extended, CCBot and Bytespider? We also visit once as GPTBot and once as a normal browser. If the robot gets a 403 and the browser gets the page, your firewall or CDN is blocking AI, and robots.txt would never tell you. Finally we look for "noindex" and "noai" tags in headers and meta tags.
• Content (25). How many words can a robot read without running JavaScript? A page that is an empty box until JavaScript runs (a single-page app) looks blank to AI, because AI crawlers never run scripts. We also measure how much of your page is text versus code.
• Structure (20). Exactly one main title (h1), section titles, a main landmark, an info card for machines (JSON-LD structured data), and a page list (sitemap.xml).
• Meaning (15). A title, a short summary (meta description), a first paragraph long enough to quote, and dates and numbers near the top. These are the things AI answers lift from a page.
• Freshness (10). An llms.txt welcome note, update dates in the sitemap, and dateModified markup, so the page looks current.

On top of the score we check whether Googlebot and Bingbot are allowed in, whether your link shows a share card (Open Graph image) on WhatsApp and Facebook, and whether your site serves a lightweight markdown page to AI agents, with an estimate of how many tokens each AI visit costs today.

How the scan works

The scanner runs on Cloudflare's edge network. It fetches robots.txt, your homepage as GPTBot, your homepage as a browser, sitemap.xml, llms.txt and a markdown request, about 6 fetches in total. Then it counts words, parses the markup and adds up the points. No AI model is called and no browser is rendered, which is why every scan is free and takes about 10 seconds. We detect your framework (Next.js, Nuxt, Remix, Gatsby, SvelteKit, Angular, Astro, WordPress, Shopify, Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, Vue, React) so the advice fits your stack.

Questions people ask

Can ChatGPT read my website?

Only if three things are true: robots.txt lets GPTBot in, your firewall or CDN does not block AI user-agents, and your text is in the HTML rather than built by JavaScript. AI crawlers do not run JavaScript. The scan tests all three at once.

Is this the same as SEO?

It overlaps. Classic SEO is about ranking in Google. AI visibility (some people call it AEO or GEO) is about whether AI assistants can read, understand and quote your pages. Good structure helps both, which is why the scan also checks Googlebot, Bingbot and your share preview.

What is llms.txt?

A small plain-text file at yourdomain.com/llms.txt that tells AI systems what your site is about in a few hundred words. It is optional but cheap, and the scan checks for it. Our own is at whataisee.com/llms.txt.

What is "markdown for agents"?

When an AI agent asks for a page with the header "Accept: text/markdown", a site can answer with a light text version instead of the full HTML. The agent pays about 80% fewer tokens and reads more of your site. Some hosts sell this as a paid feature; the scan hands you a free recipe for any hosting.

What changes on September 15, 2026?

Cloudflare starts blocking AI training and agent crawlers by default for many sites. If your site sits behind Cloudflare and you never chose a setting, AI robots may be turned away from that date without you noticing. Scan now, and scan again after the date.

Why do you only scan the homepage?

One page is enough to catch the big problems: blocked robots, a JavaScript-only page, missing structure. It also keeps every scan fast and free. Once the homepage scores well, the same fixes usually apply to the rest of the site.

Disclaimer

This scan is informative only. Results are best-effort measurements of one page at one moment and may be inaccurate or incomplete. Scores are our own opinion of AI readability, not a promise of how any AI product will treat your site. Not for commercial use. We accept no responsibility for decisions made based on these results. whataisee is not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity, Google, Microsoft, Meta or Cloudflare; their names are used only to identify their crawlers.