Publishers / abc.net.au
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6 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://abc.net.au/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
abc.net.au scores 69 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 23 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 6 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 2 of 8 training crawlers, 2 of 3 AI search indexes and 2 of 3 assistant fetchers. All 8 refusals are written in robots.txt, which is the transparent way to do it. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 6 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 4 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://www.abc.net.au/
- Title
- ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- H1
- ABC News
- Words
- 2,601
- Scripts
- 49 tags · 198 KB
- Meta robots
- none
- Canonical
- https://www.abc.net.au
- Server
- hidden
Machine
- robots.txt
- 32 groups · 1 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- Google-Extended, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- none
- Challenged
- none
Gaps
- medium8 of 14 AI agents are blockedGoogle-Extended: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Google-Extended) · GPTBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot) · ChatGPT-User: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ChatGPT-User) · ClaudeBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) · PerplexityBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) · Meta-ExternalAgent: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent) · Bytespider: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) · CCBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot)
- lowNo llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
- infoCanonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://www.abc.net.au/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 200612 ms | 2,601 | visible HTTP 200, 2601 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | 200636 ms | 2,601 | visible HTTP 200, 2601 words |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | n/a | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Google-Extended) | |
| GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200566 ms | 2,601 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot) |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowed | 200566 ms | 2,601 | visible HTTP 200, 2601 words |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 200583 ms | 2,601 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ChatGPT-User) |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200566 ms | 2,601 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowed | 200574 ms | 2,601 | visible HTTP 200, 2601 words |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 200529 ms | 2,601 | visible HTTP 200, 2601 words |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 200634 ms | 2,601 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 200574 ms | 2,601 | visible HTTP 200, 2601 words |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | 200573 ms | 2,601 | visible HTTP 200, 2601 words |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training. | AI training | allowed | n/a | visible Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt | |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200572 ms | 2,601 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent) |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | allowed | 200624 ms | 2,601 | visible HTTP 200, 2601 words |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200608 ms | 2,601 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200598 ms | 2,601 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot) |
Snapshot
Measured 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC from a residential connection. Sites change their rules often, and sites that verify crawler IPs answer differently to different networks. Run a live comparison to see what abc.net.au does right now, from Cloudflare's network.