Publishers / mirror.co.uk
Two different webs
2 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://mirror.co.uk/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
mirror.co.uk scores 56 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 43 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 2 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 1 of 8 training crawlers, 1 of 3 AI search indexes and 0 of 3 assistant fetchers. 7 are refused in robots.txt and 5 are refused at the HTTP level. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 7 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 1 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://www.mirror.co.uk/
- Title
- The Mirror: The Heart of Britain
- H1
- The Mirror: The Heart of Britain
- Words
- 1,307
- Scripts
- 137 tags · 405 KB
- Meta robots
- noarchive
- Canonical
- https://www.mirror.co.uk
- Server
- CloudFront
Machine
- robots.txt
- 22 groups · 2 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- none
- Challenged
- none
Gaps
- high12 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.
- 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.mirror.co.uk/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 2002451 ms | 1,307 | visible HTTP 200, 1307 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | 2002442 ms | 1,307 | visible HTTP 200, 1307 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 | disallowedDisallow: / | 4023251 ms | 0 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot) |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 4023300 ms | 0 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: OAI-SearchBot) |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 4023303 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 4023300 ms | 0 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowed | 2002418 ms | 1,307 | visible HTTP 200, 1307 words |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 4023257 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 4023301 ms | 0 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 4023296 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | 2002409 ms | 1,307 | visible HTTP 200, 1307 words |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | n/a | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Applebot-Extended) | |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 4023297 ms | 0 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent) |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | allowed | 4023334 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | allowed | 4023285 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 4023372 ms | 0 | blocked 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 mirror.co.uk does right now, from Cloudflare's network.