Paste a documentation URL and get a readiness report in seconds: reachability, HTTPS and redirects, extractable content, robots.txt accessibility, and sitemap discovery — each finding paired with a specific fix.
Free tool · no signupFetches one page, discards the content
Enter a public http:// or https:// address. Internal, local, and ChattyBox hosts cannot be checked; the server re-validates every request.
A docs chatbot is only as good as what it can fetch and read. The report mirrors that pipeline stage by stage.
The checker requests the URL, follows up to three redirects, and reports the HTTP status and response time it saw.
It shows whether the address you entered and the final destination use https://, and lists every redirect hop in between.
It measures what a chatbot could read from the served HTML: title, meta description, visible text, headings, code blocks, and a <main> landmark.
It fetches robots.txt and reports what the file says — including a blanket Disallow: / for all crawlers — without claiming to prove how every product enforces it.
It checks one sitemap: the first valid same-origin sitemap declaration in robots.txt, or /sitemap.xml when no valid declaration is found. It counts up to 1,000 entries and identifies sitemap indexes without crawling their children.
Every finding comes with a plain-language explanation and a specific fix, so the report turns into a to-do list rather than a score.
A check attempts to read your page, robots.txt, and one sitemap, with DNS safety lookups and limited redirects. Failed or blocked requests can stop it early. The report keeps measurements, not fetched page content.
Step 1
Any public http(s) page works — a getting-started guide, an API reference page, or the docs homepage.
Step 2
The checker attempts to fetch the page, robots.txt, and one sitemap, subject to safety checks and timeouts. It also makes DNS safety lookups and can follow redirects.
Step 3
It extracts the readiness signals you see in the report, then discards the fetched content. Nothing is stored or indexed by the check.
Step 4
Work through the findings, then run the check again — or paste another page — until the report matches the site you want a chatbot to answer from.
Privacy note: the checker does not crawl your whole site, does not store page content, and does not index anything. Only the summary you see is produced — the fetched page text is thrown away as soon as the signals are extracted.
ChattyBox crawls your public pages, indexes them for retrieval, and answers visitor questions with citations back to the source. Free includes 10 pages per site, so you can test answer quality on a real docs section before upgrading as your needs grow.
What the tool does, what it never does, and how to read the verdict.
It fetches one documentation page you choose, plus that site’s robots.txt and sitemap.xml, and reports the signals a docs chatbot depends on: reachability, HTTPS and redirects, extractable content, robots accessibility, and sitemap discovery. The fetched content is then discarded.
No. The checker reads one page, robots.txt, and a sitemap to compute the report, keeps only the summary numbers you see, and discards the page content. Nothing from the check is stored, indexed, or used for answers.
“Ready” means the checker found nothing to fix on that page. “Review” means the page was fetched and read, but the report lists improvements such as a missing meta description or redirect chain. “Blocked” means the page could not be fetched or read at all, so a chatbot crawler would likely hit the same wall.
No. The tool reports robots accessibility — what your robots.txt actually says and whether it could be fetched. It does not prove how any specific chatbot product, including ChattyBox, enforces robots rules. Check a product’s crawling documentation before relying on it.
The checker only runs against public http(s) URLs and rejects local, internal, and private-network addresses. Public staging pages can be checked if reachable without authentication; private internal docs are not supported.
The checker is free and needs no signup. If the report looks good, you can start ChattyBox on the Free plan, which includes 10 indexed pages per site, and the signup form prefills the URL you checked.
The checker reports what it measured on the day you ran it. Sites change — re-run the check before launch day, and after moving docs or changing hosting.
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