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Publishers / dw.com

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Invisible to machines

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

dw.com scores 29 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 79 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: Empty app shell; content needs JavaScript. The raw HTML is an app shell with 0 words; content appears only after JavaScript runs. There is no llms.txt.

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Human

Status
200 → https://www.dw.com/
Title
none
H1
none
Words
0
Scripts
5 tags · 5 KB · app shell
Meta robots
none
Canonical
none
Server
hidden

Machine

robots.txt
53 groups · 1 sitemaps
llms.txt
missing
llms-full.txt
missing
X-Robots-Tag
none
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

  • high
    12 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
    4 agents get a degraded pageGooglebot: Empty app shell; content needs JavaScript · Claude-SearchBot: Empty app shell; content needs JavaScript · Claude-User: Empty app shell; content needs JavaScript · Bingbot: Empty app shell; content needs JavaScript
  • high
    Page is an empty shell without JavaScriptRaw HTML holds 0 words across 5 scripts. Most AI crawlers do not execute JavaScript, so they see roughly nothing.
  • low
    No llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.

Every agent

AgentTyperobots.txtFetchWordsResult
Human (Chrome)YouHumanallowed2001361 ms0visible
HTTP 200, 0 words
GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews.Search engineallowed2001345 ms0partial
Empty app shell; content needs JavaScript
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: /2001353 ms0blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot)
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations.AI search indexdisallowedDisallow: /2001357 ms0blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: OAI-SearchBot)
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)disallowedDisallow: /2001330 ms0blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ChatGPT-User)
ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2001342 ms0blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot)
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search.AI search indexallowed2001369 ms0partial
Empty app shell; content needs JavaScript
Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowed2001368 ms0partial
Empty app shell; content needs JavaScript
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search indexdisallowedDisallow: /2001348 ms0blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot)
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI assistant (live fetch)disallowedDisallow: /2001347 ms0blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: perplexity-user/1.0)
BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search.Search engineallowed2001352 ms0partial
Empty app shell; content needs JavaScript
Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /n/ablocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Applebot-Extended)
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2001353 ms0blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent)
AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2001340 ms0blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot)
BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2001348 ms0blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider)
CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2001349 ms0blocked
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 dw.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.

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