Head to head

happycow.net vs protected.net

protected.net is more readable to AI, 51 against 44 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.

happycow.net 44/10044happycow.net

Scanned 11 hours ago · full report

protected.net 51/10051protected.net

Scanned 11 hours ago · full report

Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensionhappycow.netprotected.net
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
37 / 4038 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
0 / 254 / 25
Structure
Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact…
3 / 205 / 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

Measurementhappycow.netprotected.net
Answer engines blocked00
Training crawlers blocked00
Refuses AI agents at the edgenono
Words of text without JavaScript01
Structured datanono
Sitemapnoyes
llms.txtnono

happycow.net blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.

protected.net blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.

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