AI crawler report: wired.com

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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.

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Notes

Partial path blocks: 5 bots may fetch / but have Disallowed paths (up to 14 rules, e.g. /*?, /auth/, /account/, /user/). "OK" means the homepage only, not the whole site.

Bot matrix

Botrobots.txtLive HTTPStatus
GPTBotallownot checkedok
OAI-SearchBotallownot checkedok
ChatGPT-Userallownot checkedok
ClaudeBotdenynot checkedblocked
Claude-Weballownot checkedok
PerplexityBotdenynot checkedblocked
Google-Extendeddenynot checkedblocked
Bytespiderdenynot checkedblocked
CCBotdenynot checkedblocked
anthropic-aiallownot checkedok
meta-externalagentdenynot checkedblocked
Applebot-Extendeddenynot checkedblocked

llms.txt

Not found (HTTP 404, 872880 bytes)