Publishers / thetimes.com
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4 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://thetimes.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
thetimes.com scores 63 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 31 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 4 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 2 of 8 training crawlers, 1 of 3 AI search indexes and 1 of 3 assistant fetchers. All 10 refusals are written in robots.txt, which is the transparent way to do it. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 6 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 2 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://www.thetimes.com/
- Title
- Latest news & breaking headlines | The Times and The Sunday Times
- H1
- The Times & The Sunday Times Homepage
- Words
- 4,644
- Scripts
- 72 tags · 694 KB
- Meta robots
- max-image-preview:large
- Canonical
- https://www.thetimes.com/
- Server
- CloudFront
Machine
- robots.txt
- 2 groups · 0 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- Google-Extended, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- none
- Challenged
- none
Gaps
- medium10 of 14 AI agents are blockedGoogle-Extended: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) · ClaudeBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) · Claude-SearchBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) · Claude-User: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) · PerplexityBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) · Perplexity-User: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) · Meta-ExternalAgent: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) · Amazonbot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) · Bytespider: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) · CCBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *)
- lowNo llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
- infoCanonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://www.thetimes.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002995 ms | 4,644 | visible HTTP 200, 4644 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowedAllow: / | 2003479 ms | 4,644 | visible HTTP 200, 4644 words |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | n/a | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) | |
| GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | 2002911 ms | 4,644 | visible HTTP 200, 4644 words |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowedAllow: / | 2003036 ms | 4,644 | visible HTTP 200, 4644 words |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: / | 2003062 ms | 4,644 | visible HTTP 200, 4644 words |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002022 ms | 14 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002959 ms | 4,644 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 2003242 ms | 4,644 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 2001661 ms | 14 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 2001771 ms | 14 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowedAllow: / | 2003537 ms | 4,644 | visible HTTP 200, 4644 words |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | n/a | visible Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt | |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002958 ms | 4,644 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2003049 ms | 4,644 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 4031130 ms | 82 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: *) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2001808 ms | 14 | 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 thetimes.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.