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Invisible to machines

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

cnbc.com scores 35 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 78 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. None of the 14 AI agents receive the page. 12 are refused in robots.txt and 2 are refused at the HTTP level. Googlebot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Bingbot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot received a bot-management challenge instead of the page. Googlebot itself is blocked: Bot challenge served (HTTP 403). There is no llms.txt.

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Human

Status
200 → https://www.cnbc.com/world/?region=world
Title
International Business, World News & Global Stock Market Analysis
H1
none
Words
248
Scripts
3 tags · 3 KB
Meta robots
max-image-preview:large
Canonical
https://www.cnbc.com/world/
Server
hidden

Machine

robots.txt
3 groups · 9 sitemaps
llms.txt
missing
llms-full.txt
missing
X-Robots-Tag
none
Blocked
Google-Extended, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
Degraded
none
Challenged
Googlebot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Bingbot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot

Gaps

  • high
    14 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.
  • medium
    Bot-management challenge served to crawlersGooglebot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Bingbot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot received an interstitial instead of the page. A robots.txt rule is an honest block. A challenge hides the page without saying so.
  • low
    No llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
  • high
    Googlebot is blockedBot challenge served (HTTP 403)
  • info
    Canonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://www.cnbc.com/world/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.

Every agent

AgentTyperobots.txtFetchWordsResult
Human (Chrome)YouHumanallowed2003546 ms248visible
HTTP 200, 248 words
GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews.Search engineallowed403 challenge1387 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /n/ablocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Google-Extended)
GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /403 challenge1382 ms16blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot)
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations.AI search indexdisallowedDisallow: /403 challenge1401 ms16blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: OAI-SearchBot)
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)disallowedDisallow: /403 challenge1441 ms16blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ChatGPT-User)
ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /403 challenge1460 ms16blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot)
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search.AI search indexallowed403 challenge1381 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)disallowedDisallow: /403 challenge1375 ms16blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-User)
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search indexdisallowedDisallow: /403 challenge1485 ms16blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot)
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI assistant (live fetch)allowed403 challenge1399 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search.Search engineallowed403 challenge1380 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /n/ablocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Applebot-Extended)
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /403 challenge1417 ms16blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent)
AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /403 challenge1388 ms16blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot)
BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /403 challenge1392 ms16blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider)
CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /403 challenge1384 ms16blocked
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 cnbc.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.

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