Can AI assistants read cargocollective.com?

Measured on 2026-09-18 by asking the site 5 times — once as a browser, once as each of the 4 crawlers that feed ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Meta AI, Apple Intelligence and Doubao — and comparing what came back. The AI-training opt-out tokens that never crawl are read from robots.txt instead. Tranco rank #7,698.

What each crawler got back

What to change, in order

1. 2 AI crawlers are shut out by the catch-all rule, not by a rule naming them
   robots.txt has no group for ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot; they fall under User-agent: * with Disallow: /. If the intent was to stop generic scrapers, the assistants are collateral: add one explicit group per crawler with Allow: /. The server refuses them as well, so both the robots.txt rule and the edge rule have to change.
2. Put the text in the HTML, not only in JavaScript
   The HTML that arrives is nearly empty and the content is painted by JavaScript. None of these crawlers run it, so even the ones that are served read a blank page. Server-rendering or prerendering the main content is what changes their result.
3. Declare the facts in JSON-LD
   There is no JSON-LD on the page, so every fact — who you are, what you sell, the price — has to be guessed out of the prose and the layout. A schema.org block is the difference between being quoted correctly and being paraphrased.
4. Publish sitemap.xml and llms.txt
   sitemap.xml and llms.txt are missing, so an assistant has to discover the site by following links. llms.txt is the emerging convention for telling an assistant which pages actually matter.
5. 2 crawlers are named and refused in robots.txt — a deliberate choice
   GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot are blocked by a rule that names them. Nothing to fix here: this page records what is true, not what should be. It is listed so the deliberate part of the block is not confused with the accidental part above.

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The checks

• Answers AI agents like it answers people20%
• Readable without JavaScript0%
• robots.txt lets the crawlers in0%
• Facts in JSON-LD0%
• Content reachable, not buried60%
• Publishes a map of itself0%
• Plain structure70%

History

2026-09-13: 14 · 2026-09-15: 14 · 2026-09-16: 10 · 2026-09-17: 14 · 2026-09-18: 14

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