Head to head

citynews.ca vs bnnbloomberg.ca

bnnbloomberg.ca is more readable to AI, 81 against 73 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.

citynews.ca 73/10073citynews.ca

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bnnbloomberg.ca 81/10081bnnbloomberg.ca

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Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensioncitynews.cabnnbloomberg.ca
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
40 / 4039 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
8 / 2517 / 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…
1 / 154 / 15

The measurements side by side

Measurementcitynews.cabnnbloomberg.ca
Answer engines blocked03
Training crawlers blocked02
Refuses AI agents at the edgenono
Words of text without JavaScript321,248
Structured datayesyes
Sitemapyesyes
llms.txtnono

citynews.ca blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.

bnnbloomberg.ca blocks anthropic-ai, CCBot, ChatGPT-User, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot.

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