Publishers / theaustralian.com.au
Invisible to machines
1 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://theaustralian.com.au/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
theaustralian.com.au scores 38 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 75 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 1 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 1 of 8 training crawlers, 0 of 3 AI search indexes and 0 of 3 assistant fetchers. 10 are refused in robots.txt and 3 are refused at the HTTP level. 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). There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nocookies?a=A.flavipes
- Title
- No Cookies | The Australian
- H1
- No Cookies
- Words
- 756
- Scripts
- 30 tags · 20 KB
- Meta robots
- noarchive
- Canonical
- https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nocookies
- Server
- nginx
Machine
- robots.txt
- 4 groups · 2 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- Google-Extended, 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
- high13 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.
- lowNo llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
- highGooglebot is blockedBot challenge served (HTTP 403)
- infoCanonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nocookies. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | disallowedDisallow: / | 200361 ms | 756 | visible HTTP 200, 756 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowedAllow: (empty) | 403 challenge39 ms | 155 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| 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 | allowedAllow: (empty) | 403 challenge45 ms | 155 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowedAllow: (empty) | 403 challenge44 ms | 155 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: (empty) | 403 challenge46 ms | 155 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 403 challenge51 ms | 155 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 403 challenge56 ms | 155 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 403 challenge56 ms | 155 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 403 challenge62 ms | 155 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 403 challenge51 ms | 155 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowedAllow: (empty) | 403 challenge90 ms | 155 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training. | AI training | allowedAllow: (empty) | n/a | visible Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt | |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 403 challenge80 ms | 155 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 403 challenge72 ms | 155 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 403 challenge73 ms | 155 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 403 challenge50 ms | 155 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
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 theaustralian.com.au does right now, from Cloudflare's network.