AI Readiness Report
cnn.com
Restricted by Design
◆80/100
This site restricts 19 of 40 AI search and answer crawlers by choice, in robots.txt.
Access policyMixed · Google AI left open · not 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.
21
Allowed
19
Blocked
1
Fixes
Blocked crawlers
- OAI-SearchBotOpenAI
- ChatGPT-UserOpenAI
- Claude-UserAnthropic
- Claude-SearchBotAnthropic
- PerplexityBotPerplexity
- Perplexity-UserPerplexity
- AmazonbotAmazon
- Amzn-SearchBotAmazon
- +25 morein the full check
Recommended fixes
- AI crawlers appear to be intentionally restricted (19 of 40 AI search and answer crawlers blocked in robots.txt)Impact · low
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