Top 100 / yahoo.com
43
Invisible to machines
1 of 14 AI agents get the full page at https://yahoo.com/. Checked 2026-09-25 09:17 UTC.
yahoo.com scores 43 out of 100 for machine visibility, number 91 of the 100 most visited websites 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. GPTBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, CCBot received a bot-management challenge instead of the page. Googlebot itself is partial: Different content than humans receive. There is no llms.txt.
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Human
- Status
- 200 → https://au.yahoo.com/?p=us
- Title
- Yahoo! Australia | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports and Videos
- H1
- none
- Words
- 441
- Scripts
- 145 tags · 384 KB
- Meta robots
- none
- Canonical
- https://au.yahoo.com/
- Server
- ATS
Machine
- robots.txt
- 3 groups · 3 sitemaps
- llms.txt
- missing
- llms-full.txt
- missing
- X-Robots-Tag
- none
- Blocked
- Google-Extended, GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Meta-ExternalAgent, Bytespider, CCBot
- Degraded
- Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, Amazonbot
- Challenged
- GPTBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, CCBot
Gaps
- medium10 of 14 AI agents are blockedGoogle-Extended: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Google-Extended) · GPTBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot) · OAI-SearchBot: HTTP 404 for this user agent · ChatGPT-User: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ChatGPT-User) · ClaudeBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) · PerplexityBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) · Perplexity-User: HTTP 404 for this user agent · Meta-ExternalAgent: Bot challenge served (HTTP 429) · Bytespider: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) · CCBot: robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot)
- mediumBot-management challenge served to crawlersGPTBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, CCBot received an interstitial instead of the page. A robots.txt rule is an honest block. A challenge hides the page without saying so.
- medium5 agents get a degraded pageGooglebot: Different content than humans receive · Claude-SearchBot: Different content than humans receive · Claude-User: Different content than humans receive · Bingbot: Different content than humans receive · Amazonbot: Different content than humans receive
- lowNo llms.txtOptional, but a short curated index at /llms.txt is the cheapest way to tell assistants what matters on this site.
- infoCanonical points elsewhereCanonical is https://au.yahoo.com/. Indexes will credit that URL, not this one.
Every agent
| Agent | Type | robots.txt | Fetch | Words | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human (Chrome)You | Human | allowed | 2001645 ms | 441 | visible HTTP 200, 441 words |
| GooglebotGoogle · Classic search index. Also feeds AI Overviews. | Search engine | allowed | 2001211 ms | 1,790 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle · Robots-only token controlling Gemini training use. Never fetches on its own. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | n/a | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Google-Extended) | |
| GPTBotOpenAI · Training crawler for OpenAI models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 429 challenge728 ms | 4 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: GPTBot) |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI · Indexes for ChatGPT search results and citations. | AI search index | allowed | 404661 ms | 19 | blocked HTTP 404 for this user agent |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI · Live fetch when a user asks ChatGPT about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | disallowedDisallow: / | 404662 ms | 19 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ChatGPT-User) |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic · Training crawler for Claude models. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 404636 ms | 19 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: ClaudeBot) |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic · Indexes for Claude web search. | AI search index | allowed | 2001339 ms | 1,790 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| Claude-UserAnthropic · Live fetch when a user asks Claude about a page. | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 2002464 ms | 338 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI search index | disallowedDisallow: / | 404645 ms | 19 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: PerplexityBot) |
| Perplexity-UserPerplexity | AI assistant (live fetch) | allowed | 404634 ms | 19 | blocked HTTP 404 for this user agent |
| BingbotMicrosoft · Bing index. Also feeds Copilot and ChatGPT search. | Search engine | allowed | 2001702 ms | 1,790 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| 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 | allowed | 429 challenge716 ms | 4 | blocked Bot challenge served (HTTP 429) |
| AmazonbotAmazon · Alexa and Amazon AI. | AI training | allowed | 2001231 ms | 1,856 | partial Different content than humans receive |
| BytespiderByteDance · Known for ignoring robots.txt. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 404622 ms | 19 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: Bytespider) |
| CCBotCommon Crawl · Open dataset used to train most LLMs. | AI training | disallowedDisallow: / | 429 challenge728 ms | 4 | blocked robots.txt Disallow: / (group: CCBot) |
Snapshot
Measured 2026-09-25 09:17 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 yahoo.com does right now, from Cloudflare's network.