AI Readiness Report
theatlantic.com
Restricted by Design
◆80/100
This site restricts 14 of 40 AI search and answer crawlers by choice, in robots.txt.
Access policyMixed · OpenAI left open · enforced
This site appears to restrict AI crawlers on purpose — a valid choice many publishers and brands make (for example, keeping content out of AI training, or reserving it for the AI companies they have a deal with). If that’s deliberate, the site is working as intended. Read the verdict, not the number: the score still counts each blocked crawler, so a lower score is the expected result of that choice, not a failure to fix.
26
Allowed
14
Blocked
2
Fixes
Blocked crawlers
- Claude-UserAnthropic
- Claude-SearchBotAnthropic
- Google-ExtendedGoogle AI
- PerplexityBotPerplexity
- Perplexity-UserPerplexity
- meta-externalagentMeta AI
- meta-externalfetcherMeta AI
- AmazonbotAmazon
- +12 morein the full check
Recommended fixes
- AI crawlers appear to be intentionally restricted (14 of 40 AI search and answer crawlers blocked in robots.txt)Impact · low
- Your homepage returned HTTP 403 to our crawler — homepage checks were skippedImpact · info
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A Markdown summary of theatlantic.com for AI systems. Not scored, since few AI crawlers ask for it yet, but quick to add.
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