Publishers / ndtv.com
Invisible to machines
2 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://ndtv.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
ndtv.com scores 46 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 63 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). The site publishes an llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://www.ndtv.com/
- Title
- Get Latest News, India News, Breaking News, Today's News - NDTV.com
- H1
- Form 6 For New Voters: When A Small Change Triggered A Big Row
- Words
- 2,743
- Scripts
- 62 tags · 65 KB
- Meta robots
- none
- Canonical
- https://www.ndtv.com
- Server
- hidden
Machine
- robots.txt
- 4 groups · 5 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- present
- 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
- 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.
- mediumBot-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.
- highGooglebot is blockedBot challenge served (HTTP 403)
- 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.ndtv.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 200420 ms | 2,743 | visible HTTP 200, 2743 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | 403 challenge171 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| 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 | 403 challenge171 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowed | 403 challenge171 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 403 challenge170 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | allowed | 403 challenge170 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowed | 403 challenge170 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 403 challenge252 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | allowed | 403 challenge177 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 403 challenge172 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | 403 challenge169 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| 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 | 403 challenge251 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | allowed | 403 challenge169 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | allowed | 403 challenge168 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | allowed | 403 challenge250 ms | 16 | blocked 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 ndtv.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.
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