Publishers / tomshardware.com
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11 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://tomshardware.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
tomshardware.com scores 85 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 14 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. All 3 refusals are written in robots.txt, which is the transparent way to do it. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 3 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 6 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://www.tomshardware.com/
- Title
- Tom's Hardware: For The Hardcore PC Enthusiast
- H1
- Tom's Hardware
- Words
- 8,154
- Scripts
- 84 tags · 275 KB
- Meta robots
- none
- Canonical
- https://www.tomshardware.com
- Server
- hidden
Machine
- robots.txt
- 5 groups · 4 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider
- Degraded
- none
- Challenged
- none
Gaps
- medium3 of 14 AI agents are blockedMeta-ExternalAgent: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent) · Amazonbot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) · Bytespider: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider)
- 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.
- 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.
- infoCanonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://www.tomshardware.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 2001855 ms | 8,154 | visible HTTP 200, 8154 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | 2002039 ms | 8,154 | visible HTTP 200, 8154 words |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own. | AI training | allowed | n/a | visible Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt | |
| GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models. | AI training | allowed | 2001930 ms | 8,154 | visible HTTP 200, 8154 words |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowed | 2002038 ms | 8,154 | visible HTTP 200, 8154 words |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 2002158 ms | 8,154 | visible HTTP 200, 8154 words |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | allowed | 2002095 ms | 8,154 | visible HTTP 200, 8154 words |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowed | 2001929 ms | 8,154 | visible HTTP 200, 8154 words |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 2001970 ms | 8,154 | visible HTTP 200, 8154 words |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | allowed | 2002037 ms | 8,154 | visible HTTP 200, 8154 words |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 2002094 ms | 8,154 | visible HTTP 200, 8154 words |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | 2001929 ms | 8,154 | visible HTTP 200, 8154 words |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training. | AI training | allowed | n/a | visible Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt | |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002157 ms | 8,154 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent) |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2002108 ms | 8,154 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 2001927 ms | 8,154 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | allowed | 2002093 ms | 8,154 | visible HTTP 200, 8154 words |
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 tomshardware.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.