Head to head

tds.net vs fastly.net

fastly.net is more readable to AI, 76 against 53 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.

tds.net 53/10053tds.net

Scanned 1 hour ago · full report

fastly.net 76/10076fastly.net

Scanned 11 hours ago · full report

Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensiontds.netfastly.net
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
36 / 4040 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
6 / 2522 / 25
Structure
Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact…
6 / 209 / 20
Attribution
Signals that let an answer engine name the author, date the content, resolve the publisher, and…
1 / 155 / 15

The measurements side by side

Measurementtds.netfastly.net
Answer engines blocked40
Training crawlers blocked110
Refuses AI agents at the edgenono
Words of text without JavaScript51,163
Structured datanono
Sitemapnoyes
llms.txtnoyes

tds.net blocks anthropic-ai, Bytespider, CCBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, cohere-ai, Diffbot, FacebookBot, Google-Extended, GPTBot, ImagesiftBot, omgili, omgilibot, PerplexityBot, Scrapy, YouBot.

fastly.net blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.

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