indystar.com vs epicurious.com
epicurious.com is more readable to AI, 81 against 73 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.
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Where the difference is by dimension
| Dimension | indystar.com | epicurious.com |
|---|---|---|
| Reach Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h… |
30 / 40 | 34 / 40 |
| Readability Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex… |
17 / 25 | 20 / 25 |
| Structure Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact… |
19 / 20 | 20 / 20 |
| Attribution Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and… |
3 / 15 | 3 / 15 |
The measurements side by side
| Measurement | indystar.com | epicurious.com |
|---|---|---|
| Answer engines blocked | 17 | 10 |
| Training crawlers blocked | 21 | 11 |
| Refuses AI agents at the edge | no | no |
| Words of text without JavaScript | 400 | 1,476 |
| Structured data | yes | yes |
| Sitemap | yes | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
indystar.com blocks AI2Bot, Amazonbot, Amzn-SearchBot, Amzn-User, anthropic-ai, Applebot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, ClaudeBot, cohere-ai, cohere-training-data-crawler, Diffbot, DuckAssistBot, FacebookBot, Google-CloudVertexBot, Google-Extended, GoogleOther, GPTBot, ImagesiftBot, Kangaroo Bot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, Meta-WebIndexer, MistralAI-User, OAI-SearchBot, omgili, omgilibot, PanguBot, Perplexity-User, PerplexityBot, Scrapy, SemrushBot-OCOB, TikTokSpider, Timpibot, YouBot.
epicurious.com blocks Amazonbot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, ClaudeBot, cohere-ai, cohere-training-data-crawler, Diffbot, DuckAssistBot, Google-CloudVertexBot, Google-Extended, GoogleOther, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, Meta-WebIndexer, MistralAI-User, PanguBot, Perplexity-User, PerplexityBot, Timpibot.
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