Head to head

ara.cat vs vilaweb.cat

ara.cat is more readable to AI, 90 against 66 out of 100. Both were measured with the same audit: robots.txt policy for 48 AI agents, live requests under four crawler user agents, and a JavaScript-free read of the homepage.

ara.cat 90/10090ara.cat

Scanned 2 days ago · full report

vilaweb.cat 66/10066vilaweb.cat

Scanned 2 days ago · full report

Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensionara.catvilaweb.cat
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
39 / 4024 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
22 / 2518 / 25
Structure
Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact…
20 / 2016 / 20
Attribution
Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and…
4 / 154 / 15

The measurements side by side

Measurementara.catvilaweb.cat
Answer engines blocked10
Training crawlers blocked40
Refuses AI agents at the edgenoyes
Words of text without JavaScript2,2156,195
Structured datayesyes
Sitemapyesyes
llms.txtnono

ara.cat blocks Applebot-Extended, CCBot, ClaudeBot, GPTBot, omgilibot, PerplexityBot.

vilaweb.cat blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.

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