Publishers / slate.com
Two different webs
1 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://slate.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
slate.com scores 50 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 55 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 1 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 0 of 8 training crawlers, 0 of 3 AI search indexes and 1 of 3 assistant fetchers. 8 are refused in robots.txt and 4 are refused at the HTTP level. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 8 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 1 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. Googlebot itself is partial: Different content than humans receive. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200
- Title
- Slate Magazine - Politics, Business, Technology, and the Arts
- H1
- It’s Slate’s 30th Birthday!
- Words
- 2,065
- Scripts
- 33 tags · 213 KB
- Meta robots
- max-image-preview:large
- Canonical
- https://slate.com/
- Server
- hidden
Machine
- robots.txt
- 4 groups · 1 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- Google-Extended, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- Claude-SearchBot
- 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.
- medium2 agents get a degraded pageGooglebot: Different content than humans receive · Claude-SearchBot: Different content than humans receive
- lowNo llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 20062 ms | 2,065 | visible HTTP 200, 2065 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | 20052 ms | 2,092 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | n/a | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Google-Extended) | |
| GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 40232 ms | 0 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot) |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowed | 40231 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 40235 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 40235 ms | 0 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowed | 20054 ms | 2,092 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 20053 ms | 2,065 | visible HTTP 200, 2065 words |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | allowed | 40240 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 40234 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 402 for this user agent |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | 20057 ms | 2,065 | visible HTTP 200, 2065 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: / | 40240 ms | 0 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent) |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 40233 ms | 0 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 40234 ms | 0 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 40239 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 slate.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.