Two Webs

Publishers / salon.com

95

Mostly one web

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

salon.com scores 95 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 4 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. Every AI agent receives the same page a browser does. There is no llms.txt.

youfull pagedegradedblockedunknown

Human

Status
200 → https://www.salon.com/
Title
Salon.com - News, Politics, Culture, Science & Food
H1
Salon Homepage
Words
1,727
Scripts
27 tags · 11 KB
Meta robots
index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
Canonical
https://www.salon.com/
Server
Apache

Machine

robots.txt
66 groups · 1 sitemaps
llms.txt
missing
llms-full.txt
missing
X-Robots-Tag
none
Blocked
none
Degraded
none
Challenged
none

Gaps

  • 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.salon.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.

Every agent

AgentTyperobots.txtFetchWordsResult
Human (Chrome)YouHumanallowed200204 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews.Search engineallowedAllow: /200258 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
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: /200173 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations.AI search indexallowedAllow: /200233 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowedAllow: /200212 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models.AI trainingallowedAllow: /200177 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search.AI search indexallowedAllow: /200203 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowedAllow: /200232 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search indexallowedAllow: /200232 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI assistant (live fetch)allowedAllow: /200231 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search.Search engineallowedAllow: (empty)200259 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training.AI trainingallowedAllow: /n/avisible
Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI trainingallowedAllow: /200231 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI.AI trainingallowedAllow: /200256 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt.AI trainingallowedAllow: (empty)200231 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words
CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs.AI trainingallowedAllow: /200261 ms1,727visible
HTTP 200, 1727 words

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 salon.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.

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