seo/robots-txt · robots.txt

Your project should provide a robots.txt file.

Severity: warning

What it checks

The project should have a robots.txt, either at static/robots.txt or served via a src/routes/robots.txt/+server endpoint.

Why it matters

robots.txt tells crawlers which paths they may fetch and points them to your sitemap; missing it leaves crawl behaviour to defaults.

How to fix

Add static/robots.txt or a src/routes/robots.txt/+server endpoint:

User-agent: *
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

Mode differences

None. The check looks for the file or its +server endpoint in the project and is the same everywhere it runs, including a --route run. The dashboard’s live layer does not re-evaluate site-wide rules; the static baseline’s result stands.

Disabling

If this is intentional, turn the rule off:

export default {
  rules: {
    'seo/robots-txt': 'off'
  }
};