Can AI crawlers read canva.com?
AI crawlers can read almost nothing on this site. 13 of 20 checks failed.
Scored 32/100 on 2026-10-14 from https://www.canva.com/
What an AI crawler gets
The first 400 characters of text in the HTML, before any JavaScript runs.
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342 characters of readable text, under the 400 we count as readable
Which AI crawlers are allowed
| Crawler | robots.txt says |
|---|---|
| GPTBot | Blocked |
| OAI-SearchBot | Blocked |
| ClaudeBot | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBot | Blocked |
| PerplexityBot | Allowed |
| Perplexity-User | Allowed |
| Google-Extended | Blocked |
| CCBot | Blocked |
| Bytespider | Blocked |
| Amazonbot | Blocked |
Score by category
Fixes, biggest first
Put your words in the HTML
A crawler that runs no JavaScript found under 400 characters of text. Whatever your page says after scripts run, it doesn't say to them.
Let GPTBot crawl the site
Your robots.txt blocks OpenAI's crawler, so ChatGPT learns about you only from other sites.
Let ClaudeBot crawl the site
Your robots.txt blocks Anthropic's crawler, so Claude learns about you only from other sites.
Add structured data (JSON-LD)
Machine-readable facts about your business: name, logo, what you sell. AI systems use it to describe you accurately.
Publish a sitemap.xml
A list of every page you want found. Without one, crawlers only find what's linked.
Add real copy to the page
Readable text is a tiny share of the page's code, or there's very little of it. Crawlers summarise words, not markup.
Use semantic HTML tags
Tags like main, nav, article and footer show which part is content and which is chrome.
Describe your organisation in JSON-LD
Organization or WebSite objects tie your site to a known entity, so answers name you correctly.
Keep sitemap dates fresh
No lastmod date in the last 90 days, so crawlers can't tell what changed and may not come back.
Offer a machine-readable interface
A valid /openapi.json or /llms-full.txt lets AI agents use your product or read your docs in full, not just your homepage.
Add an llms.txt file
A short Markdown summary of your site at /llms.txt. Cheap to add, but few AI systems request it yet, so it's worth 3 points.
Add a canonical link
Tells crawlers which URL is the real one when the same page is reachable at several.
Mirror llms.txt at /.well-known/llms.txt
Some tools look in the .well-known folder instead. A copy of the same file covers both.
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7 checks passed
- Publish a robots.txt file (4 points)
- Let PerplexityBot crawl the site (6 points)
- Stop serving an empty app shell (10 points)
- Give the page an h1 heading (4 points)
- Write a descriptive page title (3 points)
- Add a meta description (3 points)
- Add Open Graph tags (2 points)