AI visibility

Perplexity

Can Perplexity read your site?

Perplexity cites sources on every answer. PerplexityBot decides whether yours can be one.

Reads robots.txt and llms.txt. Nothing stored.

How it reads the web

Perplexity documents PerplexityBot for building its index and Perplexity-User for fetching a page during a conversation. Because every Perplexity answer shows its sources, being readable here translates directly into a visible link. Perplexity reads served HTML and honours robots.txt for PerplexityBot.

Documented user agents

  • PerplexityBotchecked
  • Perplexity-Userdocumented

What your site needs

Four things that decide whether Perplexity can use your pages

  1. 01

    Allow PerplexityBot

    It is on most "block AI" lists. Decide deliberately.

  2. 02

    Descriptive titles and descriptions

    Perplexity shows them next to the citation. The builder default reads as "Lovable App".

  3. 03

    A sitemap that lists live pages

    Discovery is faster when the sitemap is accurate and the pages in it return 200.

Why builder sites fail here

  • Sitemap generated once at the first deploy and never updated
  • Duplicate titles across every route
  • Preview domain left as canonical

BulkAudits finds these on a live site, then opens a pull request on a new branch with the fix. You merge.

Audit my site

Questions about Perplexity

Why does Perplexity show my competitor and not me?
Usually one of three things: PerplexityBot is blocked, the page has no server-visible text, or the metadata is the builder default. The free check below covers the first; the diagnostic covers the rest.

Other assistants

Every check above is part of the nine-point AI readiness score in a full audit.