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41

Invisible to machines

2 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://mayoclinic.org/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.

mayoclinic.org scores 41 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 70 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 2 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 2 of 8 training crawlers, 0 of 3 AI search indexes and 0 of 3 assistant fetchers. All 12 refusals happen at the HTTP level with no matching robots.txt rule, so a crawler cannot tell the block is deliberate. Googlebot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Bingbot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot received a bot-management challenge instead of the page. Googlebot itself is blocked: Bot challenge served (HTTP 403). There is no llms.txt.

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Human

Status
200 → https://www.mayoclinic.org/
Title
The world's best hospital - Mayo Clinic
H1
Transforming your care
Words
856
Scripts
27 tags · 373 KB
Meta robots
Canonical
https://www.mayoclinic.org
Server
Google Frontend

Machine

robots.txt
1 groups · 32 sitemaps
llms.txt
missing
llms-full.txt
missing
X-Robots-Tag
none
Blocked
GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
Degraded
none
Challenged
Googlebot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Bingbot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot

Gaps

  • high
    12 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.
  • medium
    Bot-management challenge served to crawlersGooglebot, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Bingbot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot received an interstitial instead of the page. A robots.txt rule is an honest block. A challenge hides the page without saying so.
  • low
    No llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
  • high
    Googlebot is blockedBot challenge served (HTTP 403)
  • info
    Google-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.
  • info
    Canonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://www.mayoclinic.org/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.

Every agent

AgentTyperobots.txtFetchWordsResult
Human (Chrome)YouHumanallowedAllow: /2001110 ms856visible
HTTP 200, 856 words
GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews.Search engineallowedAllow: /403 challenge1476 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own.AI trainingallowedAllow: /n/avisible
Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt
GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models.AI trainingallowedAllow: /403 challenge1431 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations.AI search indexallowedAllow: /403 challenge1089 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowedAllow: /403 challenge1097 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models.AI trainingallowedAllow: /403 challenge1078 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search.AI search indexallowedAllow: /403 challenge1076 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowedAllow: /403 challenge1070 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search indexallowedAllow: /403 challenge1477 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI assistant (live fetch)allowedAllow: /403 challenge1070 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search.Search engineallowedAllow: /403 challenge1451 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training.AI trainingallowedAllow: /n/avisible
Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI trainingallowedAllow: /403 challenge1067 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI.AI trainingallowedAllow: /403 challenge1463 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt.AI trainingallowedAllow: /403 challenge1460 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)
CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs.AI trainingallowedAllow: /403 challenge1108 ms16blocked
Bot challenge served (HTTP 403)

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 mayoclinic.org does right now, from Cloudflare's network.

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