Head to head
emcd.io vs thenewstack.io
thenewstack.io is more readable to AI, 71 against 54 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.
Scanned 3 hours ago · full report
Scanned 3 hours ago · full report
Where the difference is by dimension
| Dimension | emcd.io | thenewstack.io |
|---|---|---|
| Reach Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h… |
38 / 40 | 25 / 40 |
| Readability Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex… |
3 / 25 | 16 / 25 |
| Structure Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact… |
8 / 20 | 20 / 20 |
| Attribution Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and… |
1 / 15 | 10 / 15 |
The measurements side by side
| Measurement | emcd.io | thenewstack.io |
|---|---|---|
| Answer engines blocked | 0 | 4 |
| Training crawlers blocked | 0 | 8 |
| Refuses AI agents at the edge | no | yes |
| Words of text without JavaScript | 5 | 5,384 |
| Structured data | no | yes |
| Sitemap | yes | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
emcd.io blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.
thenewstack.io blocks Amazonbot, anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, cohere-ai, FacebookBot, GPTBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-WebIndexer, PerplexityBot.
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