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drugs.com
drugs.com scores 62 out of 100 for agent readiness. It blocks 4 of 11 answer-surface AI crawlers.
- Last measured
- 2026-08-09 18:03 UTC
- First seen
- 2026-08-09
- Rubric / probe
- v1.0.0 / v2.0.0
Served through Akamai. Compare against everything else on the same stack.
Stated policy and actual behaviour disagree
robots.txt permits GPTBot, but the server refused it with HTTP 403. The stated policy and the actual behaviour disagree.
How this score is made up
Agent access23.8 / 45
- Answer-surface crawlers allowed. 4 of 11 blocked: ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Applebot-Extended, meta-externalagent.
- Secondary crawlers allowed. 5 of 12 blocked: CCBot, Amazonbot, Bytespider, cohere-ai, Diffbot.
- Serves crawlers the same content. Requesting as GPTBot returned HTTP 403 and 367 bytes, against 63,091 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 structure30 / 30
- Organization schema. Organization JSON-LD lets an agent resolve who publishes this site.
- WebSite schema. WebSite JSON-LD present.
- Additional structured data. Also declares: MedicalWebPage.
- Readable without JavaScript. 10,001 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, header, footer.
Crawler policy
Read from drugs.com/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.
| Crawler | Operator | Tier | Named | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | OpenAI | 1 | no | Allowed |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | 1 | no | Allowed |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | 1 | no | Allowed |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | 1 | no | Allowed |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | 1 | no | Allowed |
| 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 | no | Allowed |
| YouBot | You.com | 2 | no | Allowed |
| DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | 2 | no | Allowed |
| kagi-fetcher | Kagi | 2 | no | Allowed |
| Diffbot | Diffbot | 2 | yes | Blocked |
| Google-NotebookLM | 2 | no | Allowed | |
| TavilyBot | Tavily | 2 | no | Allowed |
| FirecrawlAgent | Firecrawl | 2 | no | Allowed |
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