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healthline.com

healthline.com scores 54 out of 100 for agent readiness. It blocks 4 of 11 answer-surface AI crawlers.

Score 54 out of 100, grade D
Last measured
2026-08-09 18:07 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 access31.4 / 45

  • Answer-surface crawlers allowed. 4 of 11 blocked: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Applebot-Extended, meta-externalagent.
  • Secondary crawlers allowed. 4 of 12 blocked: CCBot, Amazonbot, Bytespider, Diffbot.
  • Serves crawlers the same content. A crawler and a browser receive comparable responses.

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 structure15 / 30

  • Organization schema. No Organization JSON-LD. Agents cannot reliably attribute this site to an entity.
  • WebSite schema. No WebSite JSON-LD.
  • Additional structured data. Also declares: WebPage.
  • Readable without JavaScript. 7,776 characters of text in the server response. Most crawlers do not execute JavaScript.
  • Single top-level heading. 1 h1 element found.
  • Semantic landmarks. Uses nav, footer.

Crawler policy

Read from healthline.com/robots.txt. A crawler is listed as blocked when the rules deny it the site root. This operator names 8 AI crawlers explicitly, which means the policy is deliberate rather than inherited from a wildcard rule.

AI crawler access policy for healthline.com
CrawlerOperatorTierNamedStatus
GPTBotOpenAI1yesBlocked
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI1noAllowed
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI1noAllowed
ClaudeBotAnthropic1yesBlocked
Claude-UserAnthropic1noAllowed
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic1noAllowed
PerplexityBotPerplexity1noAllowed
Perplexity-UserPerplexity1noAllowed
Google-ExtendedGoogle1noAllowed
Applebot-ExtendedApple1yesBlocked
meta-externalagentMeta1yesBlocked
CCBotCommon Crawl2yesBlocked
AmazonbotAmazon2yesBlocked
BytespiderByteDance2yesBlocked
cohere-aiCohere2noAllowed
MistralAI-UserMistral2noAllowed
YouBotYou.com2noAllowed
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo2noAllowed
kagi-fetcherKagi2noAllowed
DiffbotDiffbot2yesBlocked
Google-NotebookLMGoogle2noAllowed
TavilyBotTavily2noAllowed
FirecrawlAgentFirecrawl2noAllowed

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<a href="https://crawlindex.org/site/healthline.com"><img src="https://crawlindex.org/badge/healthline.com.svg" alt="CrawlIndex agent readiness score for healthline.com" width="196" height="28"></a>

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