Head to head

citymapper.com vs algolia.com

algolia.com is more readable to AI, 73 against 69 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.

citymapper.com 69/10069citymapper.com

Scanned 17 hours ago · full report

algolia.com 73/10073algolia.com

Scanned 14 hours ago · full report

Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensioncitymapper.comalgolia.com
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
40 / 4033 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
21 / 2518 / 25
Structure
Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact…
5 / 2018 / 20
Attribution
Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and…
3 / 154 / 15

The measurements side by side

Measurementcitymapper.comalgolia.com
Answer engines blocked00
Training crawlers blocked10
Refuses AI agents at the edgenoyes
Words of text without JavaScript3121,461
Structured datanoyes
Sitemapyesno
llms.txtyesno

citymapper.com blocks Meta-ExternalAgent.

algolia.com blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.

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