Head to head
port.ac.uk vs lancaster.ac.uk
port.ac.uk is more readable to AI, 87 against 75 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 | port.ac.uk | lancaster.ac.uk |
|---|---|---|
| Reach Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h… |
40 / 40 | 39 / 40 |
| Readability Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex… |
19 / 25 | 23 / 25 |
| Structure Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact… |
20 / 20 | 9 / 20 |
| Attribution Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and… |
8 / 15 | 4 / 15 |
The measurements side by side
| Measurement | port.ac.uk | lancaster.ac.uk |
|---|---|---|
| Answer engines blocked | 0 | 0 |
| Training crawlers blocked | 1 | 0 |
| Refuses AI agents at the edge | no | no |
| Words of text without JavaScript | 751 | 1,118 |
| Structured data | yes | no |
| Sitemap | yes | yes |
| llms.txt | yes | no |
port.ac.uk blocks Bytespider.
lancaster.ac.uk blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.
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