Head to head

federalnewsnetwork.com vs hidemyass.com

hidemyass.com is more readable to AI, 89 against 87 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.

federalnewsnetwork.com 87/10087federalnewsnetwork.com

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hidemyass.com 89/10089hidemyass.com

Scanned 1 day ago · full report

Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensionfederalnewsnetwork.comhidemyass.com
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
36 / 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…
20 / 2016 / 20
Attribution
Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and…
4 / 154 / 15

The measurements side by side

Measurementfederalnewsnetwork.comhidemyass.com
Answer engines blocked60
Training crawlers blocked100
Refuses AI agents at the edgenono
Words of text without JavaScript1,5401,737
Structured datayesyes
Sitemapyesno
llms.txtnono

federalnewsnetwork.com blocks anthropic-ai, Bytespider, CCBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, ClaudeBot, cohere-ai, Diffbot, FacebookBot, Google-Extended, GPTBot, ImagesiftBot, omgili, omgilibot, PerplexityBot, YouBot.

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

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