Head to head

wgbh.org vs theworld.org

wgbh.org is more readable to AI, 80 against 55 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.

wgbh.org 80/10080wgbh.org

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theworld.org 55/10055theworld.org

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Where the difference is by dimension

Dimensionwgbh.orgtheworld.org
Reach
Whether AI crawlers and answer-engine fetchers are permitted to request the page at all. What h…
39 / 4023 / 40
Readability
Whether a fetcher that does not execute JavaScript receives the actual content, in markup an ex…
19 / 2518 / 25
Structure
Machine-readable markup that states the page's type, entities, canonical URL, and discrete fact…
16 / 209 / 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

Measurementwgbh.orgtheworld.org
Answer engines blocked10
Training crawlers blocked10
Refuses AI agents at the edgenoyes
Words of text without JavaScript1,1022,044
Structured datayesno
Sitemapyesyes
llms.txtnono

wgbh.org blocks ChatGPT-User, GPTBot.

theworld.org blocks no tracked AI crawler in robots.txt.

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