Head to head
scitation.org vs adl.org
adl.org is more readable to AI, 88 against 32 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 15 hours ago · full report
Scanned 15 hours ago · full report
Where the difference is by dimension
| Dimension | scitation.org | adl.org |
|---|---|---|
| Reach Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h… |
24 / 40 | 38 / 40 |
| Readability Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex… |
0 / 25 | 21 / 25 |
| Structure Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact… |
5 / 20 | 20 / 20 |
| Attribution Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and… |
1 / 15 | 9 / 15 |
The measurements side by side
| Measurement | scitation.org | adl.org |
|---|---|---|
| Answer engines blocked | 0 | 2 |
| Training crawlers blocked | 0 | 8 |
| Refuses AI agents at the edge | yes | no |
| Words of text without JavaScript | 1 | 1,130 |
| Structured data | no | yes |
| Sitemap | yes | yes |
| llms.txt | no | no |
scitation.org blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.
adl.org blocks Amazonbot, anthropic-ai, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, cohere-ai, Diffbot, Google-Extended, GPTBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher.
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