Head to head

flashback.org vs counterpunch.org

counterpunch.org is more readable to AI, 79 against 63 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.

flashback.org 63/10063flashback.org

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counterpunch.org 79/10079counterpunch.org

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Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensionflashback.orgcounterpunch.org
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
39 / 4032 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
19 / 2521 / 25
Structure
Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact…
4 / 2018 / 20
Attribution
Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and…
1 / 158 / 15

The measurements side by side

Measurementflashback.orgcounterpunch.org
Answer engines blocked00
Training crawlers blocked07
Refuses AI agents at the edgenoyes
Words of text without JavaScript3,3581,319
Structured datanoyes
Sitemapnono
llms.txtnoyes

flashback.org blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.

counterpunch.org blocks Amazonbot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, GPTBot, Meta-ExternalAgent.

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