Can AI assistants read gumtree.co.za?

Measured on 2026-09-19 by asking the site 7 times — once as a browser, once as each of the 6 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.

What each crawler got back

Azure Front Door answers for this domain. Where a crawler above is refused while robots.txt allows it, the rule is applied by that edge, not written by the site — see how often each edge does this.

What to change, in order

1. 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.
2. Mark the content with <main>
   The content-reachability check scores 30/100: with no <main> or <article> landmark, or with most of the page outside it, an assistant reads the navigation and the footer at the same cost as the text it came for.
3. Fix the plain structure: one <h1>, a title, a description, alt text
   The structure check scores 35/100. These are the cheapest signals on the page and the first ones an assistant uses to decide what the site is.
4. 3 crawlers are named and refused in robots.txt — a deliberate choice
   ClaudeBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot 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 people86%
• Readable without JavaScript100%
• robots.txt lets the crawlers in43%
• Facts in JSON-LD0%
• Content reachable, not buried30%
• Publishes a map of itself75%
• Plain structure35%

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