AI Readiness Report
cnn.com
Restricted by Design
◆70/100
This site restricts most AI crawlers by choice — 18 of 35 AI search and answer crawlers are blocked in robots.txt.
This site appears to intentionally restrict AI crawler access — a valid strategy many publishers and brands choose (for example, keeping content out of AI training). If that’s deliberate, the site is working as intended: the score below measures how open a site is to AI, so a low number here is the expected result of that choice — not a failure to fix.
17
Allowed
18
Blocked
1
Fixes
Blocked crawlers
- OAI-SearchBotOpenAI
- ChatGPT-UserOpenAI
- Claude-UserAnthropic
- Claude-SearchBotAnthropic
- Google-ExtendedGoogle AI
- PerplexityBotPerplexity
- Perplexity-UserPerplexity
- AmazonbotAmazon
Recommended fixes
- AI crawlers appear to be intentionally restricted (18 of 35 AI search and answer crawlers blocked in robots.txt)Impact · low
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18 AI crawlers blocked by robots.txt
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