Head to head

penny-arcade.com vs blockshopper.com

penny-arcade.com is more readable to AI, 61 against 51 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.

penny-arcade.com 61/10061penny-arcade.com

Scanned 10 hours ago · full report

blockshopper.com 51/10051blockshopper.com

Scanned 10 hours ago · full report

Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensionpenny-arcade.comblockshopper.com
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
32 / 4023 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
21 / 2517 / 25
Structure
Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact…
4 / 208 / 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

Measurementpenny-arcade.comblockshopper.com
Answer engines blocked00
Training crawlers blocked17
Refuses AI agents at the edgeyesyes
Words of text without JavaScript749169
Structured datanono
Sitemapnoyes
llms.txtnono

penny-arcade.com blocks GPTBot.

blockshopper.com blocks Amazonbot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, GPTBot, Meta-ExternalAgent.

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