AI crawler report: theguardian.com
Scanned 2026-10-19T12:00:20.433Z (cached) · All reports · Run a fresh check
Summary
5 of 12 AI crawlers OK · 7 of 12 blocked in robots.txt · robots.txt present · llms.txt missing
robots.txt + llms.txt only (no live homepage fetches with AI crawler User-Agents); run a free check for the full test. CrawlDiff reports what our fetches saw. It does not guarantee AI citations or indexing. robots.txt is advisory: well-behaved crawlers follow it, others may ignore it, and it is not proof of live access.
Notes
Partial path blocks: 5 bots may fetch / but have Disallowed paths (up to 47 rules, e.g. /sendarticle/, /Users/, /users/, /*/print$). "OK" means the homepage only, not the whole site.
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Bot matrix
| Bot | robots.txt | Live HTTP | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | allow | not checked | ok |
| OAI-SearchBot | allow | not checked | ok |
| ChatGPT-User | allow | not checked | ok |
| ClaudeBot | deny | not checked | blocked |
| Claude-Web | allow | not checked | ok |
| PerplexityBot | deny | not checked | blocked |
| Google-Extended | allow | not checked | ok |
| Bytespider | deny | not checked | blocked |
| CCBot | deny | not checked | blocked |
| anthropic-ai | deny | not checked | blocked |
| meta-externalagent | deny | not checked | blocked |
| Applebot-Extended | deny | not checked | blocked |
llms.txt
Not found (HTTP 403, 20610 bytes)