Noindex checker
Check whether a page tells search engines not to index it - through the robots meta tag or the X-Robots-Tag header - and see its canonical tag and robots.txt rule in the same result.
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What the noindex checker reads
The robots meta tag in the page head and the X-Robots-Tag response header - the two places a noindex or nofollow directive comes from - as the page is served.
How a noindex ends up on a live page
A staging setting shipped to production, an SEO plugin switch, or a CDN rule that adds X-Robots-Tag to every response. None of them change what visitors see.
A check tells you today. Monitoring tells you the day it changes
This is a one-time result. The Indexability option on a website monitor reads these signals on every check and sends a notice when one of them changes.
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A one-time check only tells you about today
Website monitoring with Indexability reads the robots meta tag, the X-Robots-Tag header and the canonical tag on every check, and sends a notice the day one of them changes.
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Key takeaways
- This tool loads the page you enter once, follows redirects and reads the robots meta tag and the X-Robots-Tag response header as the server sends them, not after JavaScript runs.
- It reports whether either one carries noindex or nofollow, and which of the two set it.
- The same result shows the page's canonical tag and whether the site's robots.txt allows the URL for all crawlers.
- It is free, needs no login and no credit card.
- For continuous checks, the Indexability option on a website monitor reads these signals on every check and sends a notice when one changes.
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