Two Webs

Publishers / skysports.com

89

Mostly one web

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

skysports.com scores 89 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 10 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 12 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 6 of 8 training crawlers, 3 of 3 AI search indexes and 3 of 3 assistant fetchers. All 2 refusals are written in robots.txt, which is the transparent way to do it. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 2 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 6 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. There is no llms.txt.

youfull pagedegradedblockedunknown

Human

Status
200 → https://www.skysports.com/
Title
Sky Sports - Sports News, Transfers, Scores | Watch Live Sport
H1
Sky Sports Homepage
Words
1,725
Scripts
42 tags · 70 KB
Meta robots
index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1
Canonical
none
Server
hidden

Machine

robots.txt
6 groups · 1 sitemaps
llms.txt
missing
llms-full.txt
missing
X-Robots-Tag
none
Blocked
GPTBot, CCBot
Degraded
none
Challenged
none

Gaps

  • medium
    2 of 14 AI agents are blockedGPTBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot) · CCBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot)
  • info
    Training blocked, citation allowedTraining crawlers are refused while search and assistant fetches get through. This is the common "cite me, don't train on me" posture.
  • 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
    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.

Every agent

AgentTyperobots.txtFetchWordsResult
Human (Chrome)YouHumanallowed2001340 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews.Search engineallowed2001339 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own.AI trainingallowedn/avisible
Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt
GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2001340 ms1,725blocked
robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot)
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations.AI search indexallowed2001339 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowed2001407 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models.AI trainingallowed2001338 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search.AI search indexallowed2001338 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page.AI assistant (live fetch)allowed2001330 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
PerplexityBotPerplexityAI search indexallowed2001337 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
Perplexity-UserPerplexityAI assistant (live fetch)allowed2001823 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search.Search engineallowed2001338 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training.AI trainingallowedn/avisible
Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt
Meta-ExternalAgentMetaAI trainingallowed2001328 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI.AI trainingallowed2001266 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt.AI trainingallowed2001335 ms1,725visible
HTTP 200, 1725 words
CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs.AI trainingdisallowedDisallow: /2001335 ms1,725blocked
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 skysports.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.

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