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eatingwell.com

eatingwell.com scores 41 out of 100 for agent readiness. It blocks 8 of 11 answer-surface AI crawlers.

Score 41 out of 100, grade D, partial assessment
Last measured
2026-08-09 18:03 UTC
First seen
2026-08-09
Rubric / probe
v1.0.0 / v2.0.0

Served through Cloudflare. Compare against everything else on the same stack.

This site charges agents for access

It answered with HTTP 402 Payment Required. That is a pay-per-crawl gateway, not an error: access for AI agents here is metered rather than free. Checks that depend on reading the page were excluded from the score.

How this score is made up

Agent access10.9 / 38

  • Answer-surface crawlers allowed. 8 of 11 blocked: ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, meta-externalagent.
  • Secondary crawlers allowed. 8 of 12 blocked: CCBot, Amazonbot, Bytespider, cohere-ai, MistralAI-User, YouBot, DuckAssistBot, FirecrawlAgent.
  • Serves crawlers the same content. Not assessed. Our control request was challenged, so there is no clean baseline to compare against.

Machine-readable surface8 / 8

  • robots.txt published. robots.txt is present and parseable.
  • Sitemap declared in robots.txt. robots.txt points crawlers at a sitemap.
  • llms.txt published. Not assessed. /llms.txt could not be fetched cleanly past the bot challenge.
  • agents.md published. Not assessed. /agents.md could not be fetched cleanly past the bot challenge.

Content structurenot assessed

  • Organization schema. Not assessed. Our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
  • WebSite schema. Not assessed. Our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
  • Additional structured data. Not assessed. Our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
  • Readable without JavaScript. Not assessed. Our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
  • Single top-level heading. Not assessed. Our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
  • Semantic landmarks. Not assessed. Our control request was challenged by a bot wall.

Crawler policy

Read from eatingwell.com/robots.txt. A crawler is listed as blocked when the rules deny it the site root. This operator names 19 AI crawlers explicitly, which means the policy is deliberate rather than inherited from a wildcard rule.

AI crawler access policy for eatingwell.com
CrawlerOperatorTierNamedStatus
GPTBotOpenAI1yesAllowed
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI1yesAllowed
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI1yesAllowed
ClaudeBotAnthropic1yesBlocked
Claude-UserAnthropic1yesBlocked
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic1yesBlocked
PerplexityBotPerplexity1yesBlocked
Perplexity-UserPerplexity1yesBlocked
Google-ExtendedGoogle1yesBlocked
Applebot-ExtendedApple1yesBlocked
meta-externalagentMeta1yesBlocked
CCBotCommon Crawl2yesBlocked
AmazonbotAmazon2yesBlocked
BytespiderByteDance2yesBlocked
cohere-aiCohere2yesBlocked
MistralAI-UserMistral2yesBlocked
YouBotYou.com2yesBlocked
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo2yesBlocked
kagi-fetcherKagi2noAllowed
DiffbotDiffbot2noAllowed
Google-NotebookLMGoogle2noAllowed
TavilyBotTavily2noAllowed
FirecrawlAgentFirecrawl2yesBlocked

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