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wikihow.com
wikihow.com scores 33 out of 100 for agent readiness. It blocks 9 of 11 answer-surface AI crawlers.
Score 33 out of 100, grade F
- Last measured
- 2026-08-09 18:24 UTC
- First seen
- 2026-08-09
- Rubric / probe
- v1.0.0 / v2.0.0
How this score is made up
Agent access14.5 / 45
- Answer-surface crawlers allowed. 9 of 11 blocked: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Applebot-Extended, meta-externalagent.
- Secondary crawlers allowed. 9 of 12 blocked: CCBot, Amazonbot, Bytespider, cohere-ai, MistralAI-User, YouBot, DuckAssistBot, Diffbot, FirecrawlAgent.
- Serves crawlers the same content. A crawler and a browser receive comparable responses.
Machine-readable surface3 / 25
- robots.txt published. robots.txt is present and parseable.
- Sitemap declared in robots.txt. robots.txt does not declare a sitemap.
- llms.txt published. No /llms.txt.
- agents.md published. No /agents.md.
Content structure15 / 30
- Organization schema. No Organization JSON-LD. Agents cannot reliably attribute this site to an entity.
- WebSite schema. WebSite JSON-LD present.
- Additional structured data. No further JSON-LD types on the homepage.
- Readable without JavaScript. 11,974 characters of text in the server response. Most crawlers do not execute JavaScript.
- Single top-level heading. 1 h1 element found.
- Semantic landmarks. No semantic landmark elements found.
Crawler policy
Read from wikihow.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.
| Crawler | Operator | Tier | Named | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | OpenAI | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | 1 | no | Allowed |
| Google-Extended | 1 | no | Allowed | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| meta-externalagent | Meta | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| CCBot | Common Crawl | 2 | yes | Blocked |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | 2 | yes | Blocked |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | 2 | yes | Blocked |
| cohere-ai | Cohere | 2 | yes | Blocked |
| MistralAI-User | Mistral | 2 | yes | Blocked |
| YouBot | You.com | 2 | yes | Blocked |
| DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | 2 | yes | Blocked |
| kagi-fetcher | Kagi | 2 | no | Allowed |
| Diffbot | Diffbot | 2 | yes | Blocked |
| Google-NotebookLM | 2 | no | Allowed | |
| TavilyBot | Tavily | 2 | no | Allowed |
| FirecrawlAgent | Firecrawl | 2 | yes | Blocked |
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