Publishers / washingtonpost.com
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1 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://washingtonpost.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:33 UTC.
washingtonpost.com scores 58 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 38 of the 100 content publishers checked on 2026-09-25. 1 of 14 AI agents receive the full page: 1 of 8 training crawlers, 0 of 3 AI search indexes and 0 of 3 assistant fetchers. 7 are refused in robots.txt and 3 are refused at the HTTP level. ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User received a bot-management challenge instead of the page. Googlebot itself is unknown: Fetch failed: Timed out. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://www.washingtonpost.com/
- Title
- The Washington Post - Breaking news and latest headlines, U.S. news, world news, and video
- H1
- none
- Words
- 36,747
- Scripts
- 76 tags · 43 KB
- Meta robots
- index,follow
- Canonical
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/
- Server
- hidden
Machine
- robots.txt
- 35 groups · 7 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- none
- Challenged
- ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User
Gaps
- medium10 of 14 AI agents are blockedClaudeBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) · Claude-SearchBot: Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) · Claude-User: Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) · PerplexityBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) · Perplexity-User: Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) · Applebot-Extended: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Applebot-Extended) · Meta-ExternalAgent: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent) · Amazonbot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) · Bytespider: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) · CCBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot)
- mediumBot-management challenge served to crawlersClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User 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.washingtonpost.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 200988 ms | 36,747 | visible HTTP 200, 36747 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | Timed out | unknown Fetch failed: Timed out | |
| 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 | Timed out | unknown Fetch failed: Timed out | |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowed | Timed out | unknown Fetch failed: Timed out | |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | Timed out | unknown Fetch failed: Timed out | |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 403 challenge582 ms | 16 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowed | 403 challenge582 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 403 challenge582 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 403 challenge581 ms | 16 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 403 challenge581 ms | 16 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 403) |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | Timed out | unknown Fetch failed: Timed out | |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple · Robots-only token for Apple Intelligence training. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | n/a | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Applebot-Extended) | |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | Timed out | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Meta-ExternalAgent) | |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | Timed out | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Amazonbot) | |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | Timed out | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) | |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | Timed out | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot) |
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 washingtonpost.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.