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

fortune.com scores 85 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 15 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 11 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 5 of 8 training crawlers, 3 of 3 AI search indexes and 3 of 3 assistant fetchers. 2 are refused in robots.txt and 1 is refused at the HTTP level. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 3 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 6 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. There is no llms.txt.

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Human

Status
200
Title
Fortune - Fortune 500 Daily & Breaking Business News
H1
none
Words
2,361
Scripts
71 tags · 337 KB
Meta robots
index
Canonical
https://fortune.com/
Server
nginx

Machine

robots.txt
7 groups · 10 sitemaps
llms.txt
missing
llms-full.txt
missing
X-Robots-Tag
none
Blocked
Google-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot
Degraded
none
Challenged
none

Gaps

  • medium
    3 of 14 AI agents are blockedGoogle-Extended: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Google-Extended) · Bytespider: HTTP 403 for this user agent · CCBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot)
  • info
    Training blocked, citation allowedTraining crawlers are refused while search and assistant fetches get through. This is the common "cite me, don't train on me" posture.
  • 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)YouHumanallowed200201 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 words
GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews.Search engineallowed200229 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 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 trainingallowed200201 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 words
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations.AI search indexallowed200200 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 words
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowed200142 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 words
ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models.AI trainingallowed200202 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 words
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search.AI search indexallowed200173 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 words
Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowed200173 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 words
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search indexallowed200162 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 words
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI assistant (live fetch)allowed200155 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 words
BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search.Search engineallowed200221 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 words
Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training.AI trainingallowedn/avisible
Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI trainingallowed200154 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 words
AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI.AI trainingallowed200234 ms2,361visible
HTTP 200, 2361 words
BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt.AI trainingallowed403113 ms82blocked
HTTP 403 for this user agent
CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /200207 ms2,361blocked
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 fortune.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.

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