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Can AI assistants read indiatimes.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 #518.
A86 / 100
7 of 8 crawlers can read this page.
More readable than 74% of the 47,934 sites measured so far.
Structured data: NewsMediaOrganization, WebPage, WebSite.
What each crawler got back
| Crawler | HTTP | Result | robots.txt |
|---|---|---|---|
| ClaudeBot (Claude) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| GPTBot (ChatGPT) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT Search) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| PerplexityBot (Perplexity) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| 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 | allowed-by-star |
| Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta AI) | 200 | allowed by the server, blocked in robots.txt | blocked |
| Amazonbot (Alexa, Rufus) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| Bytespider (Doubao, Lark) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| Applebot (Siri, Apple Intelligence) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| 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 | allowed-by-star |
What to change, in order
- Publish llms.txtllms.txt is 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.
- Mark the content with <main>The content-reachability check scores 33/100: 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.
- 1 crawler is named and refused in robots.txt — a deliberate choiceMeta-ExternalAgent is blocked by a rule that names it. 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.
Get told if this changes
One email only when a measured crawler flips on indiatimes.com, served to refused or back. No schedule, no newsletter; double opt-in, one-click stop.
The checks
- Answers AI agents like it answers people100%
- Readable without JavaScript100%
- robots.txt lets the crawlers in90%
- Facts in JSON-LD100%
- Content reachable, not buried33%
- Publishes a map of itself45%
- Plain structure98%
History
2026-09-13: 88 · 2026-09-14: 88 · 2026-09-15: 87 · 2026-09-16: 88 · 2026-09-17: 87 · 2026-09-18: 87 · 2026-09-19: 88 · 2026-09-20: 86
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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.
Part of the Agent Web Index, 47,934 domains measured, updated continuously.
Part of the Agent Web Index, 47,934 domains measured, updated continuously.