Head to head

gumtree.co.za vs freelancer.co.za

freelancer.co.za is more readable to AI, 87 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.

gumtree.co.za 65/10065gumtree.co.za

Scanned 9 hours ago · full report

freelancer.co.za 87/10087freelancer.co.za

Scanned 7 hours ago · full report

Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensiongumtree.co.zafreelancer.co.za
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
38 / 4040 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
14 / 2519 / 25
Structure
Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact…
6 / 2019 / 20
Attribution
Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and…
3 / 154 / 15

The measurements side by side

Measurementgumtree.co.zafreelancer.co.za
Answer engines blocked30
Training crawlers blocked50
Refuses AI agents at the edgenono
Words of text without JavaScript3,6191,600
Structured datanoyes
Sitemapyesyes
llms.txtyesno

gumtree.co.za blocks anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended, CCBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, cohere-ai, Google-Extended, GPTBot, PerplexityBot.

freelancer.co.za blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.

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