nyt.net vs nationstates.net
nyt.net is more readable to AI, 65 against 42 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 | nyt.net | nationstates.net |
|---|---|---|
| Reach Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h… |
17 / 40 | 23 / 40 |
| Readability Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex… |
20 / 25 | 12 / 25 |
| Structure Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact… |
20 / 20 | 4 / 20 |
| Attribution Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and… |
4 / 15 | 1 / 15 |
The measurements side by side
| Measurement | nyt.net | nationstates.net |
|---|---|---|
| Answer engines blocked | 12 | 0 |
| Training crawlers blocked | 14 | 7 |
| Refuses AI agents at the edge | yes | yes |
| Words of text without JavaScript | 910 | 107 |
| Structured data | yes | no |
| Sitemap | yes | no |
| llms.txt | no | no |
nyt.net blocks anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, ClaudeBot, cohere-ai, Diffbot, DuckAssistBot, FacebookBot, Google-CloudVertexBot, Google-Extended, GPTBot, ImagesiftBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, Meta-WebIndexer, OAI-SearchBot, omgili, omgilibot, Perplexity-User, PerplexityBot, Scrapy, Timpibot, YouBot.
nationstates.net blocks Amazonbot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, GPTBot, Meta-ExternalAgent.
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