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11 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com scores 86 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 12 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 11 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 5 of 8 training crawlers, 3 of 3 AI search indexes and 3 of 3 assistant fetchers. 1 is refused in robots.txt and 1 is refused at the HTTP level. 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. GPTBot received a bot-management challenge instead of the page. The site publishes an llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200
- Title
- TOI - Breaking News, Latest News, India News, World News, Bollywood, Sports, Business and Political News | The Times of India
- H1
- News
- Words
- 8,115
- Scripts
- 25 tags · 693 KB
- Meta robots
- none
- Canonical
- https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com
- Server
- hidden
Gaps
- medium2 of 14 AI agents are blockedGPTBot: Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) · Meta-ExternalAgent: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent)
- infoTraining 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.
- mediumBot-management challenge served to crawlersGPTBot received an interstitial instead of the page. A robots.txt rule is an honest block. A challenge hides the page without saying so.
- medium1 agents get a degraded pageBytespider: Page allowed but marked noindex
- 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: / | 200504 ms | 8,115 | visible HTTP 200, 8115 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowedAllow: / | 200583 ms | 8,115 | visible HTTP 200, 8115 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: / | 403 challenge88 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowedAllow: / | 200596 ms | 8,115 | visible HTTP 200, 8115 words |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: / | 200608 ms | 8,115 | visible HTTP 200, 8115 words |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | 200489 ms | 8,115 | visible HTTP 200, 8115 words |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowedAllow: / | 200475 ms | 8,115 | visible HTTP 200, 8115 words |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: / | 200582 ms | 8,115 | visible HTTP 200, 8115 words |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | allowedAllow: / | 200582 ms | 8,115 | visible HTTP 200, 8115 words |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: / | 200644 ms | 8,115 | visible HTTP 200, 8115 words |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowedAllow: / | 200543 ms | 8,115 | visible HTTP 200, 8115 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: / | 200659 ms | 5,817 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent) |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | 200529 ms | 8,115 | visible HTTP 200, 8115 words |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | 20091 ms | 42 | partial Page allowed but marked noindex |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | allowedAllow: / | 200619 ms | 8,115 | visible HTTP 200, 8115 words |
Snapshot
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