Publishers / bbc.com · also in Top 100
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Invisible to machines
0 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://bbc.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
bbc.com scores 44 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 65 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. None of the 14 AI agents receive the page. All 12 refusals are written in robots.txt, which is the transparent way to do it. Googlebot itself is partial: Different content than humans receive. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://www.bbc.com/
- Title
- BBC Home - Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
- H1
- none
- Words
- 2,645
- Scripts
- 68 tags · 161 KB
- Meta robots
- NOODP, NOYDIR
- Canonical
- https://www.bbc.com
- Server
- BBC-GTM
Machine
- robots.txt
- 40 groups · 39 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- bingbot: noarchive
- Blocked
- Google-Extended, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User
- Challenged
- none
Gaps
- high12 of 14 AI agents are blockedAssistants asked about this page will guess, or cite someone else. Deliberate for a paywalled publisher. Otherwise this is the biggest gap on the list.
- medium4 agents get a degraded pageGooglebot: Different content than humans receive · Claude-SearchBot: Different content than humans receive · Claude-User: 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.
- infoCanonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://www.bbc.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 200809 ms | 2,645 | visible HTTP 200, 2645 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | 200865 ms | 2,645 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| 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: / | 200793 ms | 2,645 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot) |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 200814 ms | 2,645 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: OAI-SearchBot) |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 200793 ms | 2,645 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ChatGPT-User) |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200864 ms | 2,645 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowed | 200825 ms | 2,645 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 200863 ms | 2,645 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 200863 ms | 2,645 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 4035021 ms | 2 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Perplexity-User) |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | 200862 ms | 2,645 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | n/a | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Applebot-Extended) | |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200862 ms | 2,650 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent) |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200862 ms | 2,650 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200861 ms | 2,645 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200870 ms | 2,645 | 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 bbc.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.
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