X-Robots-Tag Checker
What Is An X-Robots-Tag Checker?
An X-Robots-Tag Checker is a tool that analyzes the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header of a webpage to see how search engines are instructed to crawl and index it.
Why Does It Matter?
Unlike meta robots tags (which are placed in HTML), the X-Robots-Tag is set at the server level and can control indexing for HTML pages, PDFs, images, and other non-HTML files.
If configured incorrectly, it can:
- Block important pages or files from being indexed
- Override your on-page SEO settings.
- Causes unexpected drops in visibility.
How to Use the Tool
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
About X-Robots-Tag Checker
What does this tool check?
The tool fetches your URL server-side and shows you every HTTP response header the server returns — exactly as a bot or browser would see them. It then highlights the X-Robots-Tag header and any <meta name="robots"> tag found in the HTML, parses all directives (noindex, nofollow, nosnippet, noarchive, noimageindex, max-snippet), and gives you a final indexability verdict.