Head to head
nic.microsoft vs cloud.microsoft
cloud.microsoft is more readable to AI, 82 against 64 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 13 hours ago · full report
Scanned 13 hours ago · full report
Where the difference is by dimension
| Dimension | nic.microsoft | cloud.microsoft |
|---|---|---|
| Reach Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h… |
39 / 40 | 39 / 40 |
| Readability Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex… |
17 / 25 | 24 / 25 |
| Structure Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact… |
4 / 20 | 16 / 20 |
| Attribution Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and… |
1 / 15 | 3 / 15 |
The measurements side by side
| Measurement | nic.microsoft | cloud.microsoft |
|---|---|---|
| Answer engines blocked | 0 | 0 |
| Training crawlers blocked | 0 | 0 |
| Refuses AI agents at the edge | no | no |
| Words of text without JavaScript | 335 | 1,233 |
| Structured data | no | yes |
| Sitemap | no | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
nic.microsoft blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.
cloud.microsoft blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.
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