What does the blocking layer mean?

A crawler can be blocked by robots rules, by server or CDN configuration, by a bot-management vendor or by the page itself. Citlyze identifies which layer returned the block so you know who needs to change what.

Is blocking AI crawlers ever the right choice?

Sometimes, for content you do not want reused. Citlyze makes the choice visible: you can see exactly which crawlers are blocked on which pages and confirm it matches your policy.

How is this different from a GEO audit?

Access monitoring answers whether a crawler can reach the page. The audit answers whether the page is worth citing once reached. Both run from the same workspace and point at the same pages.

Do I need to install anything?

Access checks run from outside your site with nothing to install. Verified crawler visits use the site snippet or your server logs, whichever suits your stack.

Use case

Make sure AI can read your site

Citlyze monitors whether the crawlers behind AI answers can reach your key pages, tells you which layer blocks them when they cannot, and audits the pages so the content they read is worth citing.

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Bot access

Robots policy vs live responses · checked continuously

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PageGPTBotOAI-SearchBotPerplexityBotClaudeBot//pricing/product/docs

Reachable Blocked Your policy

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ChatGPT
Gemini
Perplexity
DeepSeek
ByteDance
Grok
Google AI Overview & AI Mode
Bing Copilot

Open incident

PerplexityBot · /pricing

Open

Firewall/CDN block · cloudflare

The request was rejected before your app answered. Check your bot rules and allow this crawler.

Aug 15

first seen

2h ago

last check

Email + Slack

alerted

Resolves automatically when access recovers.

Auto-resolve

Monitor

Continuous access checks for every AI crawler

Your key pages are checked for each AI crawler. When one is blocked, the alert names the layer, from robots rules to firewall to a bot-management vendor, so the fix goes to the right team.

Access grid per crawler and page
Alert names the blocking layer
Incident history per page

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Audit

Pages built so engines can use them

Page audits check the parts that matter for AI answers: crawlability, structured content, answerable sections and the signals engines use to trust a page.

Per-page audit with a score
Fixes ranked by impact
Re-check after each change

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Site connection

asterflow.com · AI crawler tracking

Receiving events

Cloudflare

capture method

2 min ago

last verified hit

94%

signed requests

Setup checks

Workspace key createdAsterFlow production

Complete

Cloudflare worker installedRequests signed at the edge

Complete

Crawler events receivedGPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot

Live

Unknown user agents3 awaiting review

Review

Recent verified hits

GPTBot/field-service-scheduling2 min ago

PerplexityBot/compare/routepilot8 min ago

ClaudeBot/blog/dispatch-planning14 min ago

Verify

See the crawlers that came

Verified crawler visits per page show which engines read your content after the fix, so you have proof of access.

Verified visits per crawler
Pages each crawler requested
Trend after each fix

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FAQ

AI crawler access

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The crawlers used by the major AI assistants and search engines to fetch and index content. The list is maintained centrally and grows as new crawlers appear.

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