Two Webs

Publishers / polygon.com

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Two different webs

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

polygon.com scores 54 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 48 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.

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Human

Status
200 → https://www.polygon.com/
Title
Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
H1
none
Words
1,627
Scripts
47 tags · 81 KB
Meta robots
max-image-preview:large
Canonical
https://www.polygon.com/
Server
nginx

Machine

robots.txt
21 groups · 2 sitemaps
llms.txt
missing
llms-full.txt
missing
X-Robots-Tag
none
Blocked
Google-Extended, GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot
Degraded
Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot
Challenged
none

Gaps

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

Every agent

AgentTyperobots.txtFetchWordsResult
Human (Chrome)YouHumanallowed2002611 ms1,627visible
HTTP 200, 1627 words
GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews.Search engineallowed2002677 ms1,632partial
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 trainingdisallowedDisallow: /fetch failedblocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot)
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations.AI search indexallowedfetch failedunknown
Fetch failed: fetch failed
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)disallowedDisallow: /fetch failedblocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ChatGPT-User)
ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /fetch failedblocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot)
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search.AI search indexallowed2002706 ms1,626partial
Different content than humans receive
Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowed2002647 ms1,633partial
Different content than humans receive
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search indexdisallowedDisallow: /2002665 ms1,633blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot)
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI assistant (live fetch)allowed2002720 ms1,628partial
Different content than humans receive
BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search.Search engineallowed2002623 ms1,627partial
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 trainingallowed2002655 ms1,630partial
Different content than humans receive
AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI.AI trainingallowed2002594 ms1,626partial
Different content than humans receive
BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /fetch failedblocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider)
CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /fetch failedblocked
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 polygon.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.

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