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coursera.org

coursera.org scores 84 out of 100 for agent readiness. It blocks 1 of 11 answer-surface AI crawlers.

Score 84 out of 100, grade B
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 access42.3 / 45

  • Answer-surface crawlers allowed. 1 of 11 blocked: meta-externalagent.
  • Secondary crawlers allowed. All 12 secondary crawlers are allowed.
  • Serves crawlers the same content. A crawler and a browser receive comparable responses.

Machine-readable surface16 / 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. /llms.txt is served but is off-spec: no H1 title; no blockquote summary; no markdown link list.
  • agents.md published. No /agents.md.

Content structure26 / 30

  • Organization schema. Organization JSON-LD lets an agent resolve who publishes this site.
  • WebSite schema. No WebSite JSON-LD.
  • Additional structured data. Also declares: FAQPage.
  • Readable without JavaScript. 9,782 characters of text in the server response. Most crawlers do not execute JavaScript.
  • Single top-level heading. 1 h1 element found.
  • Semantic landmarks. Uses main, nav, footer.

Crawler policy

Read from coursera.org/robots.txt. A crawler is listed as blocked when the rules deny it the site root. This operator names 9 AI crawlers explicitly, which means the policy is deliberate rather than inherited from a wildcard rule.

AI crawler access policy for coursera.org
CrawlerOperatorTierNamedStatus
GPTBotOpenAI1yesAllowed
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI1yesAllowed
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI1yesAllowed
ClaudeBotAnthropic1yesAllowed
Claude-UserAnthropic1noAllowed
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic1noAllowed
PerplexityBotPerplexity1yesAllowed
Perplexity-UserPerplexity1noAllowed
Google-ExtendedGoogle1yesAllowed
Applebot-ExtendedApple1noAllowed
meta-externalagentMeta1yesBlocked
CCBotCommon Crawl2yesAllowed
AmazonbotAmazon2noAllowed
BytespiderByteDance2noAllowed
cohere-aiCohere2noAllowed
MistralAI-UserMistral2yesAllowed
YouBotYou.com2noAllowed
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo2noAllowed
kagi-fetcherKagi2noAllowed
DiffbotDiffbot2noAllowed
Google-NotebookLMGoogle2noAllowed
TavilyBotTavily2noAllowed
FirecrawlAgentFirecrawl2noAllowed

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