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cnn.com

cnn.com scores 32 out of 100 for agent readiness. It blocks 10 of 11 answer-surface AI crawlers.

Score 32 out of 100, grade F
Last measured
2026-08-09 18:01 UTC
First seen
2026-08-09
Rubric / probe
v1.0.0 / v2.0.0

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How this score is made up

Agent access12.4 / 45

  • Answer-surface crawlers allowed. 10 of 11 blocked: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended.
  • Secondary crawlers allowed. 8 of 12 blocked: CCBot, Amazonbot, Bytespider, cohere-ai, MistralAI-User, YouBot, DuckAssistBot, Diffbot.
  • Serves crawlers the same content. A crawler and a browser receive comparable responses.

Machine-readable surface8 / 25

  • robots.txt published. robots.txt is present and parseable.
  • Sitemap declared in robots.txt. robots.txt points crawlers at a sitemap.
  • llms.txt published. No /llms.txt.
  • agents.md published. No /agents.md.

Content structure12 / 30

  • Organization schema. No Organization JSON-LD. Agents cannot reliably attribute this site to an entity.
  • WebSite schema. No WebSite JSON-LD.
  • Additional structured data. Also declares: WebPage.
  • Readable without JavaScript. 1,111,425 characters of text in the server response. Most crawlers do not execute JavaScript.
  • Single top-level heading. 0 h1 elements found.
  • Semantic landmarks. No semantic landmark elements found.

Crawler policy

Read from cnn.com/robots.txt. A crawler is listed as blocked when the rules deny it the site root. This operator names 18 AI crawlers explicitly, which means the policy is deliberate rather than inherited from a wildcard rule.

AI crawler access policy for cnn.com
CrawlerOperatorTierNamedStatus
GPTBotOpenAI1yesBlocked
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI1yesBlocked
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI1yesBlocked
ClaudeBotAnthropic1yesBlocked
Claude-UserAnthropic1yesBlocked
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic1yesBlocked
PerplexityBotPerplexity1yesBlocked
Perplexity-UserPerplexity1yesBlocked
Google-ExtendedGoogle1yesBlocked
Applebot-ExtendedApple1yesBlocked
meta-externalagentMeta1noAllowed
CCBotCommon Crawl2yesBlocked
AmazonbotAmazon2yesBlocked
BytespiderByteDance2yesBlocked
cohere-aiCohere2yesBlocked
MistralAI-UserMistral2yesBlocked
YouBotYou.com2yesBlocked
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo2yesBlocked
kagi-fetcherKagi2noAllowed
DiffbotDiffbot2yesBlocked
Google-NotebookLMGoogle2noAllowed
TavilyBotTavily2noAllowed
FirecrawlAgentFirecrawl2noAllowed

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