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Can AI assistants read accountingtoday.com?

Measured on 2026-09-19 by asking the site 7 times — once as a browser, once as each of the 6 crawlers that feed ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Meta AI, Apple Intelligence and Doubao — and comparing what came back. The AI-training opt-out tokens that never crawl are read from robots.txt instead.

C67 / 100
1 of 6 crawlers can read this page.
More readable than 29% of the 47,821 sites measured so far. Structured data: WebPage.

What each crawler got back

CrawlerHTTPResultrobots.txt
ClaudeBot (Claude)200 can read it allowed-by-star
GPTBot (ChatGPT)402 error allowed-by-star
OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT Search)402 error allowed-by-star
PerplexityBot (Perplexity)402 error allowed-by-star
Google-Extended (Gemini, AI Overviews)
a robots.txt token, not a crawler: it controls how already-crawled pages may be used, and never makes a request of its own
— not opted out allowed-by-star
Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta AI)402 error allowed-by-star
Amazonbot (Alexa, Rufus)402 error blocked

AWS CloudFront answers for this domain. Where a crawler above is refused while robots.txt allows it, the rule is applied by that edge, not written by the site — see how often each edge does this.

What to change, in order

  1. Let in the 4 crawlers your own robots.txt already allows+4 crawlers
    GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Meta-ExternalAgent are turned away before reading the page (answered with an HTTP error), while robots.txt permits them — so this block is not written in your site. AWS CloudFront answers for this domain. AWS WAF Bot Control has an AI-crawler category that CloudFront enforces ahead of your origin. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/waf/latest/developerguide/waf-bot-control.html Fixing it takes this domain from 1 to 5 of 6 crawlers.
  2. Publish llms.txt
    llms.txt is missing, so an assistant has to discover the site by following links. llms.txt is the emerging convention for telling an assistant which pages actually matter.
  3. 1 crawler is named and refused in robots.txt — a deliberate choice
    Amazonbot is blocked by a rule that names it. Nothing to fix here: this page records what is true, not what should be. It is listed so the deliberate part of the block is not confused with the accidental part above.

Get told if this changes

One email only when a measured crawler flips on accountingtoday.com, served to refused or back. No schedule, no newsletter; double opt-in, one-click stop.

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Method. 7 live HTTP requests (one per crawler, one as a browser) plus robots.txt, llms.txt, sitemap.xml and security.txt, 12-second timeout each, from a single vantage point. Blocking AI crawlers is a legitimate choice, not a failure: this page records what is true, not what should be. Domain comes from a shop-platform seed (Shopify/WooCommerce/Magento/BigCommerce/Shopline fingerprint or JSON-LD price), not the Tranco traffic ranking. One page per domain — the homepage — is audited.

Part of the Agent Web Index, 47,821 domains measured, updated continuously.