Does humans.txt affect SEO?

No. It is purely a human-facing credits file and has no impact on search ranking or crawling.

Is humans.txt still used?

It is optional and less common than it once was, but many teams still add one as a small, friendly touch that credits contributors and the stack.

Does this send my data anywhere?

No. Utilumo's developer tools parse and transform input inside the browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, stored, or logged.

Explainer1 min readUpdated July 19, 2026

What is a humans.txt file?

Short answer

humans.txt is a plain-text file at /humans.txt that credits the people behind a site. It is a friendly convention — not a standard — usually split into TEAM, THANKS, and SITE sections.

Credit the people behind the site

While robots.txt speaks to crawlers, humans.txt speaks to people. It is a small text file that names the team, thanks contributors, and lists the technology a site is built with.

/* TEAM */
Developer: Jane Doe
Site: jane@example.com
Location: Vienna, Austria

/* SITE */
Last update: 2026-07-19
Standards: HTML5, CSS3
Components: Next.js, React

A simple humans.txt

Where it goes

The file lives at the root of the domain, at https://example.com/humans.txt. Many sites also add a <link rel="author" href="/humans.txt"> in the page head to point to it.

Conventional sections

/* TEAM */ — the people who built the site, with roles and contacts
/* THANKS */ — contributors, libraries, or inspirations to credit
/* SITE */ — last update, languages, standards, and components used

It is a convention, not a standardhumans.txt has no formal schema and no effect on SEO or crawling. The section labels and fields are informal, so adapt them to what you want to share.

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References

humanstxt.org — humanstxt.org