Two Webs

Publishers / epicurious.com

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Two different webs

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

epicurious.com scores 53 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 49 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 1 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 0 of 8 training crawlers, 1 of 3 AI search indexes and 0 of 3 assistant fetchers. 11 are refused in robots.txt and 2 are refused at the HTTP level. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 8 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 1 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. There is no llms.txt.

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Human

Status
200 → https://www.epicurious.com/
Title
Epicurious – Recipes, Menu Ideas, Videos & Cooking Tips | Epicurious
H1
Epicurious
Words
3,499
Scripts
15 tags · 23 KB
Meta robots
index, follow, max-image-preview:large
Canonical
https://www.epicurious.com/
Server
CloudFront

Machine

robots.txt
3 groups · 7 sitemaps
llms.txt
missing
llms-full.txt
missing
X-Robots-Tag
none
Blocked
Google-Extended, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
Degraded
none
Challenged
none

Gaps

  • high
    13 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.
  • 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.epicurious.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.

Every agent

AgentTyperobots.txtFetchWordsResult
Human (Chrome)YouHumanallowed2001565 ms3,499visible
HTTP 200, 3499 words
GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews.Search engineallowed2001884 ms3,499visible
HTTP 200, 3499 words
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 trainingallowed4031341 ms4blocked
HTTP 403 for this user agent
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations.AI search indexallowed2001560 ms3,499visible
HTTP 200, 3499 words
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowed4031357 ms4blocked
HTTP 403 for this user agent
ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2001636 ms3,499blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot)
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search.AI search indexdisallowedDisallow: /2001674 ms3,499blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-SearchBot)
Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)disallowedDisallow: /2001611 ms3,499blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-User)
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search indexdisallowedDisallow: /2001512 ms3,499blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot)
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI assistant (live fetch)disallowedDisallow: /2001787 ms3,499blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Perplexity-User)
BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search.Search engineallowed2002301 ms3,499visible
HTTP 200, 3499 words
Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /n/ablocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Applebot-Extended)
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2001654 ms3,499blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent)
AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2001863 ms3,499blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot)
BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /4031348 ms4blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider)
CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2002203 ms3,499blocked
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 epicurious.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.

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