Tranco rank 3,882
routledge.com
routledge.com scores 60 out of 100 for agent readiness. It allows every answer-surface AI crawler.
- Last measured
- 2026-08-09 18:18 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.
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 access38 / 45
- Answer-surface crawlers allowed. All 11 answer-surface crawlers are allowed.
- Secondary crawlers allowed. All 12 secondary crawlers are allowed.
- Serves crawlers the same content. Requesting as GPTBot returned HTTP 403 and 5,840 bytes, against 124,648 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 structure14 / 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. No further JSON-LD types on the homepage.
- Readable without JavaScript. 3,206 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 routledge.com/robots.txt. A crawler is listed as blocked when the rules deny it the site root. This operator names 1 AI crawler 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 | no | Allowed |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | 1 | no | Allowed |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | 1 | no | Allowed |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | 1 | no | Allowed |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | 1 | no | Allowed |
| Google-Extended | 1 | no | Allowed | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | 1 | no | Allowed |
| meta-externalagent | Meta | 1 | no | Allowed |
| CCBot | Common Crawl | 2 | yes | Allowed |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | 2 | no | Allowed |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | 2 | no | Allowed |
| cohere-ai | Cohere | 2 | no | Allowed |
| 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 | no | Allowed |
| Google-NotebookLM | 2 | no | Allowed | |
| TavilyBot | Tavily | 2 | no | Allowed |
| FirecrawlAgent | Firecrawl | 2 | no | Allowed |
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