Can AI assistants read lonelyplanet.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 #3,694.
What each crawler got back
| Crawler | HTTP | Result | robots.txt |
|---|---|---|---|
| ClaudeBot (Claude) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| GPTBot (ChatGPT) | 403 | challenged | blocked |
| 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 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| Amazonbot (Alexa, Rufus) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| Bytespider (Doubao, Lark) | 403 | challenged | 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 |
AWS CloudFront 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
- Let in the 1 crawler your own robots.txt already allows+1 crawlerBytespider is turned away before reading the page (served a bot challenge instead of the page), while robots.txt permits it — so this block is not written in your site. AWS CloudFront answers for this domain. AWS WAF Bot Control has an AI-crawler category that CloudFront enforces ahead of your origin. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/waf-bot-control.html Fixing it takes this domain from 6 to 7 of 8 crawlers.
- 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 16/100: 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 choiceGPTBot 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.
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The checks
- Answers AI agents like it answers people75%
- Readable without JavaScript100%
- robots.txt lets the crawlers in90%
- Facts in JSON-LD100%
- Content reachable, not buried16%
- Publishes a map of itself45%
- Plain structure97%
History
2026-09-13: 78 · 2026-09-14: 78 · 2026-09-15: 78 · 2026-09-16: 78 · 2026-09-17: 78 · 2026-09-18: 78 · 2026-09-19: 80 · 2026-09-20: 78
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