Head to head

birminghammail.co.uk vs halifax-online.co.uk

halifax-online.co.uk is more readable to AI, 52 against 43 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.

birminghammail.co.uk 43/10043birminghammail.co.uk

Scanned 18 minutes ago · full report

halifax-online.co.uk 52/10052halifax-online.co.uk

Scanned 53 minutes ago · full report

Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensionbirminghammail.co.ukhalifax-online.co.uk
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all, in rob…
36 / 4039 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
1 / 259 / 25
Structure
Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact…
5 / 203 / 20
Attribution
Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and…
1 / 151 / 15

The measurements side by side

Measurementbirminghammail.co.ukhalifax-online.co.uk
Answer engines blocked30
Training crawlers blocked50
Refuses AI agents at the edgenono
Words of text without JavaScript054
Structured datanono
Sitemapyesno
llms.txtnono

birminghammail.co.uk blocks anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, ClaudeBot, GPTBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, YouBot.

halifax-online.co.uk blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.

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