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Can AI assistants read bradford.ac.uk?
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.
B83 / 100
5 of 6 crawlers can read this page.
More readable than 69% of the 47,315 sites measured so far.
Structured data: CollegeOrUniversity.
What each crawler got back
| Crawler | HTTP | Result | robots.txt |
|---|---|---|---|
| ClaudeBot (Claude) | 200 | allowed by the server, blocked in robots.txt | blocked |
| GPTBot (ChatGPT) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| OAI-SearchBot (ChatGPT Search) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| PerplexityBot (Perplexity) | 200 | can read it | 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) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
| Amazonbot (Alexa, Rufus) | 200 | can read it | allowed-by-star |
What to change, in order
- Publish sitemap.xml and llms.txtsitemap.xml and llms.txt are 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.
- 1 crawler is named and refused in robots.txt — a deliberate choiceClaudeBot 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.
The checks
- Answers AI agents like it answers people100%
- Readable without JavaScript100%
- robots.txt lets the crawlers in86%
- Facts in JSON-LD67%
- Content reachable, not buried78%
- Publishes a map of itself25%
- Plain structure90%
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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, 47,315 domains measured, updated continuously.
Part of the Agent Web Index, 47,315 domains measured, updated continuously.