Publishers / aljazeera.com
Two different webs
9 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://aljazeera.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
aljazeera.com scores 73 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 21 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 9 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 5 of 8 training crawlers, 2 of 3 AI search indexes and 2 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": 3 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 4 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. Googlebot itself is partial: Different content than humans receive. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://www.aljazeera.com/
- Title
- Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera
- H1
- Al Jazeera
- Words
- 932
- Scripts
- 44 tags · 310 KB
- Meta robots
- max-image-preview:large
- Canonical
- https://www.aljazeera.com
- Server
- nginx
Machine
- robots.txt
- 10 groups · 5 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Bytespider
- Degraded
- none
- Challenged
- none
Gaps
- medium5 of 14 AI agents are blockedGPTBot: 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) · Bytespider: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider)
- medium2 agents get a degraded pageGooglebot: Different content than humans receive · Bingbot: 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.
- infoGoogle-Extended not listedYou block other training crawlers but Gemini training via Google-Extended is still allowed. Add it to the same group if the policy is meant to be even-handed.
- infoCanonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://www.aljazeera.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 2002074 ms | 932 | visible HTTP 200, 932 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | 2002084 ms | 2,622 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own. | AI training | allowed | n/a | visible Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt | |
| GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002095 ms | 932 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot) |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowed | 2002073 ms | 932 | visible HTTP 200, 932 words |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002068 ms | 932 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ChatGPT-User) |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002094 ms | 932 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowed | 2002036 ms | 932 | visible HTTP 200, 932 words |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 2002072 ms | 932 | visible HTTP 200, 932 words |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002087 ms | 932 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 2002076 ms | 932 | visible HTTP 200, 932 words |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | 2002056 ms | 2,622 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| 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 | allowed | 2002025 ms | 932 | visible HTTP 200, 932 words |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | allowed | 2002027 ms | 932 | visible HTTP 200, 932 words |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002094 ms | 932 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | allowed | 2002071 ms | 932 | visible HTTP 200, 932 words |
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 aljazeera.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.