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Can AI assistants read hostgator.com?

Measured on 2026-09-20 by asking the site 9 times — once as a browser, once as each of the 8 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 #361.

D47 / 100
4 of 8 crawlers can read this page.
More readable than 5% of the 47,934 sites measured so far. No JSON-LD.

What each crawler got back

CrawlerHTTPResultrobots.txt
ClaudeBot (Claude)200 can read it no-file
GPTBot (ChatGPT)200 can read it no-file
OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT Search)200 can read it no-file
PerplexityBot (Perplexity)200 can read it no-file
Google-Extended (Gemini, AI Overviews)
a robots.txt token, not a crawler: it controls how already-crawled pages may be used, and never makes a request of its own
— not opted out no-file
Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta AI)403 challenged no-file
Amazonbot (Alexa, Rufus)403 challenged no-file
Bytespider (Doubao, Lark)403 challenged no-file
Applebot (Siri, Apple Intelligence)403 challenged no-file
Applebot-Extended (Apple Intelligence training)
a robots.txt token, not a crawler: it controls how already-crawled pages may be used, and never makes a request of its own
— not opted out no-file

Cloudflare 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. Let in the 4 crawlers your own robots.txt already allows+4 crawlers
    Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, Applebot are turned away before reading the page (served a bot challenge instead of the page), while robots.txt permits them — so this block is not written in your site. Cloudflare answers for this domain. Cloudflare applies AI-crawler blocking at the edge, independently of robots.txt (Security → Bots, plus the managed robots.txt feature). https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/concepts/bot/ Fixing it takes this domain from 4 to 8 of 8 crawlers.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.

Get told if this changes

One email only when a measured crawler flips on hostgator.com, served to refused or back. No schedule, no newsletter; double opt-in, one-click stop.

The checks

History

2026-09-13: 54 · 2026-09-14: 54 · 2026-09-15: 54 · 2026-09-16: 54 · 2026-09-17: 54 · 2026-09-18: 54 · 2026-09-19: 54 · 2026-09-20: 47

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Method. 9 live HTTP requests (one per crawler, one as a browser) plus robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap.xml and security.txt, 12-second timeout each, from a single vantage point. Blocking AI crawlers is a legitimate choice, not a failure: this page records what is true, not what should be. Domain comes from the Tranco research list. One page per domain — the homepage — is audited.

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