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8 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://independent.co.uk/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
independent.co.uk scores 76 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 20 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 8 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 4 of 8 training crawlers, 2 of 3 AI search indexes and 2 of 3 assistant fetchers. All 6 refusals happen at the HTTP level with no matching robots.txt rule, so a crawler cannot tell the block is deliberate. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 4 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 4 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://www.independent.co.uk/
- Title
- News | The Independent | Today's headlines and latest breaking news
- H1
- Video
- Words
- 2,537
- Scripts
- 35 tags · 79 KB
- Meta robots
- max-image-preview:large,max-video-preview:-1
- Canonical
- https://www.independent.co.uk/
- Server
- hidden
Machine
- robots.txt
- 2 groups · 2 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalAgent, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- none
- Challenged
- none
Gaps
- medium6 of 14 AI agents are blockedClaudeBot: HTTP 402 for this user agent · PerplexityBot: HTTP 402 for this user agent · Perplexity-User: HTTP 402 for this user agent · Meta-ExternalAgent: HTTP 402 for this user agent · Bytespider: HTTP 402 for this user agent · CCBot: HTTP 402 for this user agent
- 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.
- infoCanonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://www.independent.co.uk/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 200208 ms | 2,537 | visible HTTP 200, 2537 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | 200225 ms | 2,537 | visible HTTP 200, 2537 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 | 200227 ms | 2,537 | visible HTTP 200, 2537 words |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowed | 200220 ms | 2,537 | visible HTTP 200, 2537 words |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 200214 ms | 2,537 | visible HTTP 200, 2537 words |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | allowed | 40239 ms | 69 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowed | 200198 ms | 2,537 | visible HTTP 200, 2537 words |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 200229 ms | 2,537 | visible HTTP 200, 2537 words |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | allowed | 40238 ms | 69 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 40238 ms | 69 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | 200233 ms | 2,537 | visible HTTP 200, 2537 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 | 40238 ms | 69 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | allowed | 200634 ms | 2,537 | visible HTTP 200, 2537 words |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | allowed | 40237 ms | 69 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | allowed | 40237 ms | 69 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
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 independent.co.uk does right now, from Cloudflare's network.
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