Can AI assistants read cbs6albany.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.

What each crawler got back

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 3 crawlers your own robots.txt already allows+3 crawlers
   OAI-SearchBot, Meta-ExternalAgent, Amazonbot are turned away before reading the page (served a bot challenge instead of the page), 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 4 of 6 crawlers.
2. Declare the facts in JSON-LD
   There is no JSON-LD on the page, so every fact — who you are, what you sell, the price — has to be guessed out of the prose and the layout. A schema.org block is the difference between being quoted correctly and being paraphrased.
3. 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.
4. Fix the plain structure: one <h1>, a title, a description, alt text
   The structure check scores 57/100. These are the cheapest signals on the page and the first ones an assistant uses to decide what the site is.
5. 2 crawlers are named and refused in robots.txt — a deliberate choice
   ClaudeBot, GPTBot are blocked by a rule that names them. 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.

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The checks

• Answers AI agents like it answers people57%
• Readable without JavaScript100%
• robots.txt lets the crawlers in57%
• Facts in JSON-LD0%
• Content reachable, not buried98%
• Publishes a map of itself45%
• Plain structure57%

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