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indymedia.org vs disboard.org

indymedia.org is more readable to AI, 65 against 55 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.

indymedia.org 65/10065indymedia.org

Scanned 7 hours ago · full report

disboard.org 55/10055disboard.org

Scanned 7 hours ago · full report

Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensionindymedia.orgdisboard.org
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
39 / 4023 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
18 / 2522 / 25
Structure
Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact…
4 / 206 / 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

Measurementindymedia.orgdisboard.org
Answer engines blocked00
Training crawlers blocked07
Refuses AI agents at the edgenoyes
Words of text without JavaScript4246,544
Structured datanono
Sitemapnoyes
llms.txtnono

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

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

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