Publishers / marketwatch.com
Invisible to machines
1 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://marketwatch.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
marketwatch.com scores 3 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 85 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. Even a plain request carrying a Chrome user agent was refused (HTTP 401), so marketwatch.com serves its pages only to clients that pass a full browser check. Every crawler below got the same treatment, which is why the score is so low. 10 are refused in robots.txt and 3 are refused at the HTTP level. Googlebot itself is blocked: HTTP 401 for this user agent. The raw HTML is an app shell with 9 words; content appears only after JavaScript runs. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 401 → https://www.marketwatch.com/
- Title
- marketwatch.com
- H1
- none
- Words
- 9
- Scripts
- 2 tags · 1 KB · app shell
- Meta robots
- none
- Canonical
- none
- Server
- CloudFront
Machine
- robots.txt
- 3 groups · 6 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- Google-Extended, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- none
- Challenged
- none
Gaps
- highHumans cannot load this page eitherHTTP 401. Every other check is measured against a broken baseline.
- high13 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.
- lowNo llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
- highGooglebot is blockedHTTP 401 for this user agent
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | disallowedDisallow: / | 401275 ms | 9 | blocked HTTP 401 |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowedAllow: / | 401379 ms | 9 | blocked HTTP 401 for this user agent |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | n/a | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) | |
| GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | 401972 ms | 9 | blocked HTTP 401 for this user agent |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowedAllow: / | 401218 ms | 9 | blocked HTTP 401 for this user agent |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: / | 401330 ms | 9 | blocked HTTP 401 for this user agent |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 401294 ms | 9 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 401335 ms | 9 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 4012153 ms | 9 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 4012865 ms | 9 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 4012834 ms | 9 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowedAllow: / | 4012993 ms | 9 | blocked HTTP 401 for this user agent |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | n/a | visible Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt | |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 4012470 ms | 9 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 401234 ms | 9 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 4012608 ms | 9 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 401377 ms | 9 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
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 marketwatch.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.