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yahoo.com

yahoo.com scores 52 out of 100 for agent readiness. It blocks 5 of 11 answer-surface AI crawlers.

Score 52 out of 100, grade D
Last measured
2026-08-09 18:25 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 access21.1 / 45

  • Answer-surface crawlers allowed. 5 of 11 blocked: GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended.
  • Secondary crawlers allowed. 5 of 12 blocked: CCBot, Bytespider, cohere-ai, YouBot, Diffbot.
  • Serves crawlers the same content. Requesting as GPTBot returned HTTP 429 and 23 bytes, against 700,437 bytes for a browser.

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 structure23 / 30

  • Organization schema. Organization JSON-LD lets an agent resolve who publishes this site.
  • WebSite schema. WebSite JSON-LD present.
  • Additional structured data. No further JSON-LD types on the homepage.
  • Readable without JavaScript. 2,686 characters of text in the server response. Most crawlers do not execute JavaScript.
  • Single top-level heading. 0 h1 elements found.
  • Semantic landmarks. Uses main, header, footer, article, aside.

Crawler policy

Read from yahoo.com/robots.txt. A crawler is listed as blocked when the rules deny it the site root. This operator names 12 AI crawlers explicitly, which means the policy is deliberate rather than inherited from a wildcard rule.

AI crawler access policy for yahoo.com
CrawlerOperatorTierNamedStatus
GPTBotOpenAI1yesBlocked
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI1yesAllowed
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI1yesBlocked
ClaudeBotAnthropic1yesBlocked
Claude-UserAnthropic1noAllowed
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic1yesAllowed
PerplexityBotPerplexity1yesBlocked
Perplexity-UserPerplexity1noAllowed
Google-ExtendedGoogle1yesBlocked
Applebot-ExtendedApple1noAllowed
meta-externalagentMeta1noAllowed
CCBotCommon Crawl2yesBlocked
AmazonbotAmazon2noAllowed
BytespiderByteDance2yesBlocked
cohere-aiCohere2yesBlocked
MistralAI-UserMistral2noAllowed
YouBotYou.com2yesBlocked
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo2noAllowed
kagi-fetcherKagi2noAllowed
DiffbotDiffbot2yesBlocked
Google-NotebookLMGoogle2noAllowed
TavilyBotTavily2noAllowed
FirecrawlAgentFirecrawl2noAllowed

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