Head to head

chicago.gov vs fec.gov

fec.gov is more readable to AI, 75 against 53 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.

chicago.gov 53/10053chicago.gov

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fec.gov 75/10075fec.gov

Scanned 45 minutes ago · full report

Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensionchicago.govfec.gov
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
23 / 4039 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
22 / 2524 / 25
Structure
Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact…
4 / 207 / 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

Measurementchicago.govfec.gov
Answer engines blocked00
Training crawlers blocked00
Refuses AI agents at the edgeyesno
Words of text without JavaScript736513
Structured datanono
Sitemapnono
llms.txtnono

chicago.gov blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.

fec.gov blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.

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