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13 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://vice.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
vice.com scores 87 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 11 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 13 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 7 of 8 training crawlers, 3 of 3 AI search indexes and 3 of 3 assistant fetchers. The one refusal happens at the HTTP level with no matching robots.txt rule, so a crawler cannot tell the block is deliberate. The pattern is "cite me, don't train on me": 1 of 8 training crawlers are refused while 6 of 6 search and assistant fetchers get through. ClaudeBot received a bot-management challenge instead of the page. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://www.vice.com/
- Title
- VICE - VICE is the definitive guide to enlightening information.
- H1
- Subscribe to VICE
- Words
- 207
- Scripts
- 65 tags · 144 KB
- Meta robots
- index, follow, max-image-preview:large, max-snippet:-1, max-video-preview:-1
- Canonical
- https://www.vice.com/
- Server
- nginx
Machine
- robots.txt
- 1 groups · 33 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- ClaudeBot
- Degraded
- none
- Challenged
- ClaudeBot
Gaps
- medium1 of 14 AI agents are blockedClaudeBot: Bot challenge served (HTTP 429)
- 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 crawlersClaudeBot 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.
- 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.vice.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2004557 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2006563 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own. | AI training | allowedAllow: (empty) | n/a | visible Robots-only token; allowed by robots.txt | |
| GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models. | AI training | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2004095 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2003787 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2006067 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | allowedAllow: (empty) | 429 challenge256 ms | 9 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 429) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2003369 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2001763 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2001330 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2002925 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2001052 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| 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 | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2002228 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2005731 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2002510 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 words |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | allowedAllow: (empty) | 2005214 ms | 207 | visible HTTP 200, 207 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 vice.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.
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