Publishers / time.com
57
Two different webs
2 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://time.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
time.com scores 57 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 41 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 2 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 2 of 8 training crawlers, 0 of 3 AI search indexes and 0 of 3 assistant fetchers. All 7 refusals happen at the HTTP level with no matching robots.txt rule, so a crawler cannot tell the block is deliberate. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200
- Title
- TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
- H1
- TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
- Words
- 1,971
- Scripts
- 38 tags · 579 KB
- Meta robots
- max-image-preview:large
- Canonical
- https://time.com/
- Server
- hidden
Machine
- robots.txt
- 3 groups · 9 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalAgent, CCBot
- Degraded
- OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Amazonbot, Bytespider
- Challenged
- none
Gaps
- medium7 of 14 AI agents are blockedGPTBot: HTTP 406 for this user agent · ChatGPT-User: HTTP 406 for this user agent · Claude-User: HTTP 406 for this user agent · PerplexityBot: HTTP 406 for this user agent · Perplexity-User: HTTP 406 for this user agent · Meta-ExternalAgent: HTTP 406 for this user agent · CCBot: HTTP 406 for this user agent
- medium5 agents get a degraded pageOAI-SearchBot: Different content than humans receive · ClaudeBot: Only 0 words vs 1971 for humans · Claude-SearchBot: Only 0 words vs 1971 for humans · Amazonbot: Only 0 words vs 1971 for humans · Bytespider: Only 0 words vs 1971 for humans
- lowNo llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
- infoGoogle-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
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowedAllow: / | 20052 ms | 1,971 | visible HTTP 200, 1971 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | 200100 ms | 1,971 | visible HTTP 200, 1971 words |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | n/a | visible Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt | |
| GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | 40653 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 406 for this user agent |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowedAllow: / | 2001491 ms | 2,097 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: / | 40656 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 406 for this user agent |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | 2001474 ms | 0 | partial Only 0 words vs 1971 for humans |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowedAllow: / | 2001489 ms | 0 | partial Only 0 words vs 1971 for humans |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: / | 40656 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 406 for this user agent |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | allowedAllow: / | 40654 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 406 for this user agent |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: / | 40654 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 406 for this user agent |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowedAllow: / | 200121 ms | 1,971 | visible HTTP 200, 1971 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 | allowedAllow: / | 40653 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 406 for this user agent |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | 2001488 ms | 0 | partial Only 0 words vs 1971 for humans |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | 2001472 ms | 0 | partial Only 0 words vs 1971 for humans |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | 40653 ms | 0 | blocked HTTP 406 for this user agent |
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 time.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.