Publishers / abcnews.go.com
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Two different webs
4 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://abcnews.go.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
abcnews.go.com scores 54 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 46 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 4 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 1 of 8 training crawlers, 3 of 3 AI search indexes and 0 of 3 assistant fetchers. All 5 refusals are written in robots.txt, which is the transparent way to do it. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 4 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 3 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. Googlebot itself is blocked: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: googlebot-news). There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://abcnews.com/
- Title
- ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
- H1
- ABC News
- Words
- 1,812
- Scripts
- 38 tags · 283 KB
- Meta robots
- index, follow
- Canonical
- https://abcnews.com
- Server
- nginx/1.28.3
Machine
- robots.txt
- 13 groups · 3 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- Google-Extended, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot
- Challenged
- none
Gaps
- medium5 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) · Bytespider: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) · CCBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot)
- infoTraining blocked, citation allowedTraining crawlers are refused while search and assistant fetches get through. This is the common "cite me, don't train on me" posture.
- medium6 agents get a degraded pageClaudeBot: Different content than humans receive · Claude-User: Different content than humans receive · Perplexity-User: Different content than humans receive · Bingbot: Different content than humans receive · Meta-ExternalAgent: Different content than humans receive · Amazonbot: Different content than humans receive
- lowNo llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
- highGooglebot is blockedrobots.txt Disallow: / (group: googlebot-news)
- infoCanonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://abcnews.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 2001657 ms | 1,812 | visible HTTP 200, 1812 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | disallowedDisallow: / | 2001849 ms | 1,813 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: googlebot-news) |
| 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: / | 2001665 ms | 1,811 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot) |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowed | 2002094 ms | 1,812 | visible HTTP 200, 1812 words |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 2001623 ms | 1,812 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ChatGPT-User) |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | allowed | 2001517 ms | 1,813 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowed | 2001895 ms | 1,812 | visible HTTP 200, 1812 words |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 2001778 ms | 1,811 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | allowed | 2001784 ms | 1,812 | visible HTTP 200, 1812 words |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 2001698 ms | 1,811 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | 2001839 ms | 1,813 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | n/a | visible Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt | |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | allowed | 2001704 ms | 1,811 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | allowed | 2001615 ms | 1,813 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2001339 ms | 1,548 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2001950 ms | 1,811 | 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 abcnews.go.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.