{"id":28500,"date":"2026-09-08T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/how-do-i-check-if-a-site-is-accessible-to-users-and-indexing-robots\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T00:47:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T21:47:43","slug":"how-do-i-check-if-a-site-is-accessible-to-users-and-indexing-robots","status":"publish","type":"ar_ykb","link":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/yandex-bilgi-bankasi\/how-do-i-check-if-a-site-is-accessible-to-users-and-indexing-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I check if a site is accessible to users and indexing robots?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Availability is the precondition for everything else. Yandex makes the consequence explicit: if the robot cannot reach the site because of a server error, <strong>the site may disappear from search results entirely<\/strong> \u2014 and for the same reason, visitors cannot reach it either.<\/p>\n<h2>The three checks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Site diagnostics<\/strong> (Website optimisation \u2192 Site diagnostics), with a summary widget on the dashboard. This is where availability problems are reported first.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Security and violations.<\/strong> Yandex connects security to availability directly: infected sites are typically blocked by antivirus software in the browser, and <em>hosting providers often disable infected sites<\/em>, making them unreachable for visitors and robots alike. A malware incident is an availability incident.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Page check<\/strong> (Tools \u2192 Check page), which is the most informative of the three because it shows three different things at once.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What page check actually gives you<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A <strong>screenshot<\/strong> of the page as rendered on mobile and desktop, in the audit results tab.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>text available to the indexing bot<\/strong>, under &#8220;page version in the database \u2192 page content&#8221;. This is the definitive answer to &#8220;can the robot read this page&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>response code<\/strong>, under technical information.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yandex states the rule plainly: <code>200 OK<\/code> means the page is accessible to bots and visitors; <strong>any other code means it is accessible to neither and cannot appear in search results<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>How to use this<\/h2>\n<p>When a page is missing from search, check availability before anything else, and check it as the robot rather than in a browser. The screenshot and the stored page content together answer the two questions that matter \u2014 what it looks like, and what of it the engine can actually read \u2014 and the gap between them is where most surprises live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Availability is the precondition for everything else. Yandex makes the consequence explicit: if the robot cannot reach the site because of a server error, the site may disappear from search results entirely \u2014 and for the same reason, visitors cannot reach it either. The three checks Site diagnostics (Website optimisation \u2192 Site diagnostics), with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"menu_order":76,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ar_ykb_kategori":[764],"ar_ykb_etiket":[],"class_list":["post-28500","ar_ykb","type-ar_ykb","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","ar_ykb_kategori-site-indexing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ar_ykb"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29133,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb\/28500\/revisions\/29133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_kategori","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_kategori?post=28500"},{"taxonomy":"ar_ykb_etiket","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alienroad.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ar_ykb_etiket?post=28500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}