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Clarity Now Surfaces Robots.txt Violations in Bot Analytics

calendar_today June 23, 2026 person Ihab Rizk domain microsoft-clarity

As AI platforms and crawlers play a bigger role in how content is discovered, publishers need more than traffic volume to understand their AI visibility. They need to know which bots are accessing their content , what those bots are trying to reach , and whether those platforms are honoring the access preferences defined in robots.txt. With this new release in the Bot Analytics dashboard, Clarity now detects and surfaces robots.txt bot violations. You can see when bots request disallowed URLs,…

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