Publishers / elpais.com
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Two different webs
6 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://elpais.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
elpais.com scores 69 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 22 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 6 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 4 of 8 training crawlers, 1 of 3 AI search indexes and 1 of 3 assistant fetchers. All 8 refusals are written in robots.txt, which is the transparent way to do it. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 4 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 2 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200
- Title
- EL PAÍS: el periódico global
- H1
- none
- Words
- 5,003
- Scripts
- 23 tags · 58 KB
- Meta robots
- index,follow
- Canonical
- https://elpais.com
- Server
- openresty
Machine
- robots.txt
- 200 groups · 0 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- none
- Challenged
- none
Gaps
- medium8 of 14 AI agents are blockedClaudeBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) · Claude-SearchBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-SearchBot) · Claude-User: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-User) · PerplexityBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) · Perplexity-User: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Perplexity-User) · Amazonbot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) · Bytespider: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) · CCBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot)
- 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.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 200229 ms | 5,003 | visible HTTP 200, 5003 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | 200265 ms | 5,003 | visible HTTP 200, 5003 words |
| 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 | allowed | 200230 ms | 5,003 | visible HTTP 200, 5003 words |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowed | 200228 ms | 5,003 | visible HTTP 200, 5003 words |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 200242 ms | 5,003 | visible HTTP 200, 5003 words |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200270 ms | 5,003 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 200286 ms | 5,003 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-SearchBot) |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 200297 ms | 5,003 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-User) |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 200247 ms | 5,003 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 200281 ms | 5,003 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Perplexity-User) |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | 200291 ms | 5,003 | visible HTTP 200, 5003 words |
| 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 | 200274 ms | 5,003 | visible HTTP 200, 5003 words |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200273 ms | 5,003 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200245 ms | 5,003 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 200260 ms | 5,003 | 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 elpais.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.