Two Webs

Publishers / lemonde.fr

54

Two different webs

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

lemonde.fr scores 54 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 47 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. None of the 14 AI agents receive the page. All 8 refusals are written in robots.txt, which is the transparent way to do it. Googlebot itself is partial: Different content than humans receive. There is no llms.txt.

youfull pagedegradedblockedunknown

Human

Status
200 → https://www.lemonde.fr/en/
Title
Le Monde in English – World news, culture and opinion
H1
Everything to know about Pope Leo's trip to France
Words
1,570
Scripts
20 tags · 7 KB
Meta robots
index, follow, noarchive
Canonical
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/
Server
hidden

Machine

robots.txt
304 groups · 4 sitemaps
llms.txt
missing
llms-full.txt
missing
X-Robots-Tag
none
Blocked
Google-Extended, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, Applebot-Extended, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
Degraded
GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalAgent
Challenged
none

Gaps

  • medium
    8 of 14 AI agents are blockedGoogle-Extended: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Google-Extended) · ClaudeBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) · Claude-SearchBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-SearchBot) · Claude-User: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-User) · Applebot-Extended: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Applebot-Extended) · Amazonbot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) · Bytespider: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) · CCBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot)
  • medium
    8 agents get a degraded pageGooglebot: Different content than humans receive · GPTBot: Different content than humans receive · OAI-SearchBot: Different content than humans receive · ChatGPT-User: Different content than humans receive · PerplexityBot: Different content than humans receive · Perplexity-User: Different content than humans receive · Bingbot: Different content than humans receive · Meta-ExternalAgent: Different content than humans receive
  • 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.lemonde.fr/en/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.

Every agent

AgentTyperobots.txtFetchWordsResult
Human (Chrome)YouHumanallowed2001305 ms1,570visible
HTTP 200, 1570 words
GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews.Search engineallowed2001551 ms9,760partial
Different content than humans receive
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 trainingallowed2001660 ms9,760partial
Different content than humans receive
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations.AI search indexallowed2001470 ms9,760partial
Different content than humans receive
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowed2001595 ms9,760partial
Different content than humans receive
ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2001568 ms9,760blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot)
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search.AI search indexdisallowedDisallow: /2001530 ms9,760blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-SearchBot)
Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)disallowedDisallow: /2001627 ms9,760blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Claude-User)
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search indexallowed2001690 ms9,760partial
Different content than humans receive
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI assistant (live fetch)allowed2001641 ms9,760partial
Different content than humans receive
BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search.Search engineallowed2001498 ms9,760partial
Different content than humans receive
Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /n/ablocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Applebot-Extended)
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI trainingallowed2001593 ms9,760partial
Different content than humans receive
AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2001690 ms9,760blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot)
BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /4061382 ms0blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider)
CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /4061473 ms0blocked
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 lemonde.fr does right now, from Cloudflare's network.

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