Defined.Technical SEO
Crawlability is whether a public URL can be requested and meaningfully read under a stated set of crawler conditions. It is related to, but does not prove, indexing, ranking, citation, or recommendation.
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Crawlability
The operational definition, the public evidence boundary, and the nearby concepts an operator needs before using the term in a diagnosis.
Use standard
Definition before diagnosis.
Operational meaning
What the term can—and cannot—support.
Read the definition as a contract. It keeps a useful public observation from expanding into an outcome the scan cannot see.
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A response status, robots directive, header, authentication wall, or rendered content state can affect what a crawler receives. Revvye observes those signals for the submitted surface and records the conditions behind the result.
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Different agents may execute JavaScript, follow links, respect directives, or retry failures differently. A single public observation cannot stand in for an engine's private index or a complete site crawl, so the result stays tied to the tested URL and time.
Public-surface boundary
The term travels with its limit.
- 01Observe
Inspect the submitted public surface and the declarations it returns.
- 02Preserve
Keep the rule, page signal, severity, and stated limitation together.
- 03Exclude
Do not infer private revenue, conversion, delivery, or customer behavior.
Move from term to evidence
Inspect the public path. Keep the private result private.
The free scan begins with the page you submit and routes its result through a private email-linked intake. It does not access private analytics or CRM data.
Public pages only. The $97 report comes after the result.
Public pagesNamed rulesPrivate result