Why it matters
Without it, crawlers assume they can go anywhere, which is usually fine, and they miss the sitemap hint. On single-page apps a missing robots.txt often returns your homepage instead of a 404, which confuses crawlers.
How Patch checks
We fetch /robots.txt and check it returns a text file.
How to fix it
User-agent: *
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://your site/sitemap.xml
- Add a robots.txt at https://your site/robots.txt:
Your own report goes further: it names the exact pages, services and settings Patch found on your site, and with a full report you get a fix prompt to paste into Lovable, Bolt or Cursor.
Where this applies
Applies to every site that wants search traffic.