Head to head
mic.com vs spacenews.com
mic.com is more readable to AI, 87 against 70 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.
Scanned 1 day ago · full report
Scanned 1 day ago · full report
Where the difference is by dimension
| Dimension | mic.com | spacenews.com |
|---|---|---|
| Reach Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h… |
39 / 40 | 21 / 40 |
| Readability Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex… |
20 / 25 | 19 / 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… |
4 / 15 | 10 / 15 |
The measurements side by side
| Measurement | mic.com | spacenews.com |
|---|---|---|
| Answer engines blocked | 1 | 5 |
| Training crawlers blocked | 1 | 6 |
| Refuses AI agents at the edge | no | yes |
| Words of text without JavaScript | 1,238 | 902 |
| Structured data | yes | yes |
| Sitemap | yes | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
mic.com blocks Applebot, Applebot-Extended.
spacenews.com blocks Bytespider, CCBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, GoogleOther, GPTBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot.
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