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82

Mostly one web

10 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://businessinsider.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.

businessinsider.com scores 82 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 19 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 10 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 5 of 8 training crawlers, 3 of 3 AI search indexes and 2 of 3 assistant fetchers. All 3 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 5 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. There is no llms.txt.

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Human

Status
200 → https://www.businessinsider.com/
Title
Business Insider - Latest News in Tech, Markets, Economy & Innovation
H1
Business Insider - Top Stories
Words
1,485
Scripts
30 tags · 124 KB
Meta robots
none
Canonical
https://www.businessinsider.com/
Server
hidden

Machine

robots.txt
13 groups · 7 sitemaps
llms.txt
missing
llms-full.txt
missing
X-Robots-Tag
none
Blocked
ClaudeBot, Bytespider, CCBot
Degraded
Claude-User
Challenged
none

Gaps

  • medium
    3 of 14 AI agents are blockedClaudeBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) · Bytespider: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) · CCBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot)
  • info
    Training 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.
  • medium
    1 agents get a degraded pageClaude-User: Different content than humans receive
  • low
    No llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
  • info
    Google-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.
  • info
    Canonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://www.businessinsider.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.

Every agent

AgentTyperobots.txtFetchWordsResult
Human (Chrome)YouHumanallowed200293 ms1,485visible
HTTP 200, 1485 words
GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews.Search engineallowed200236 ms1,485visible
HTTP 200, 1485 words
Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own.AI trainingallowedn/avisible
Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt
GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models.AI trainingallowed200305 ms1,485visible
HTTP 200, 1485 words
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations.AI search indexallowed200287 ms1,485visible
HTTP 200, 1485 words
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowed200280 ms1,485visible
HTTP 200, 1485 words
ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /200248 ms1,485blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot)
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search.AI search indexallowed200221 ms1,485visible
HTTP 200, 1485 words
Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowed200298 ms1,418partial
Different content than humans receive
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search indexallowed200240 ms1,485visible
HTTP 200, 1485 words
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI assistant (live fetch)allowed200200 ms1,485visible
HTTP 200, 1485 words
BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search.Search engineallowed200278 ms1,485visible
HTTP 200, 1485 words
Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training.AI trainingallowedn/avisible
Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI trainingallowed200247 ms1,485visible
HTTP 200, 1485 words
AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI.AI trainingallowed200277 ms1,485visible
HTTP 200, 1485 words
BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /200209 ms1,429blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider)
CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /200252 ms1,485blocked
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 businessinsider.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.

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