Head to head

gothamist.com vs compuserve.com

gothamist.com is more readable to AI, 69 against 65 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.

gothamist.com 69/10069gothamist.com

Scanned 16 hours ago · full report

compuserve.com 65/10065compuserve.com

Scanned 16 hours ago · full report

Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensiongothamist.comcompuserve.com
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
39 / 4039 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
16 / 2517 / 25
Structure
Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact…
8 / 204 / 20
Attribution
Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and…
1 / 151 / 15

The measurements side by side

Measurementgothamist.comcompuserve.com
Answer engines blocked10
Training crawlers blocked20
Refuses AI agents at the edgenono
Words of text without JavaScript839861
Structured datanono
Sitemapyesno
llms.txtnono

gothamist.com blocks CCBot, ChatGPT-User, Google-Extended, GPTBot.

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

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