Two Webs

Publishers / engadget.com

95

Mostly one web

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

engadget.com scores 95 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 3 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. Every AI agent receives the same page a browser does. There is no llms.txt.

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Human

Status
200 → https://www.engadget.com/
Title
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
H1
none
Words
1,498
Scripts
12 tags · 8 KB
Meta robots
none
Canonical
https://www.engadget.com/
Server
nginx/1.18.0 (Ubuntu)

Machine

robots.txt
1 groups · 2 sitemaps
llms.txt
missing
llms-full.txt
missing
X-Robots-Tag
none
Blocked
none
Degraded
none
Challenged
none

Gaps

  • 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
    Canonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://www.engadget.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.

Every agent

AgentTyperobots.txtFetchWordsResult
Human (Chrome)YouHumanallowed200558 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews.Search engineallowed200575 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 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 trainingallowed200579 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations.AI search indexallowed200564 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowed200555 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models.AI trainingallowed200570 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search.AI search indexallowed200562 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowed200554 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search indexallowed200577 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI assistant (live fetch)allowed200571 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search.Search engineallowed200407 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training.AI trainingallowedn/avisible
Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI trainingallowed200563 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI.AI trainingallowed200567 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt.AI trainingallowed200575 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words
CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs.AI trainingallowed200406 ms1,498visible
HTTP 200, 1498 words

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 engadget.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.

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