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softpedia.com

softpedia.com scores 67 out of 100 for agent readiness. It blocks 3 of 11 answer-surface AI crawlers.

Score 67 out of 100, grade C, partial assessment
Last measured
2026-08-09 18:19 UTC
First seen
2026-08-09
Rubric / probe
v1.0.0 / v2.0.0

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Partial assessment

Our measurement request was met with a bot challenge (HTTP 403 on the control request). Anything we could otherwise read from the page describes that challenge rather than the site, so those checks were excluded and the score renormalised over what remained. The robots.txt findings are unaffected: that file is fetched separately and was served normally.

How this score is made up

Agent access27.8 / 38

  • Answer-surface crawlers allowed. 3 of 11 blocked: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot.
  • Secondary crawlers allowed. 3 of 12 blocked: CCBot, Amazonbot, Bytespider.
  • Serves crawlers the same content. Not assessed. Our control request was challenged, so there is no clean baseline to compare against.

Machine-readable surface3 / 8

  • robots.txt published. robots.txt is present and parseable.
  • Sitemap declared in robots.txt. robots.txt does not declare 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 softpedia.com/robots.txt. A crawler is listed as blocked when the rules deny it the site root. This operator names 6 AI crawlers explicitly, which means the policy is deliberate rather than inherited from a wildcard rule.

AI crawler access policy for softpedia.com
CrawlerOperatorTierNamedStatus
GPTBotOpenAI1yesBlocked
OAI-SearchBotOpenAI1noAllowed
ChatGPT-UserOpenAI1noAllowed
ClaudeBotAnthropic1yesBlocked
Claude-UserAnthropic1noAllowed
Claude-SearchBotAnthropic1noAllowed
PerplexityBotPerplexity1yesBlocked
Perplexity-UserPerplexity1noAllowed
Google-ExtendedGoogle1noAllowed
Applebot-ExtendedApple1noAllowed
meta-externalagentMeta1noAllowed
CCBotCommon Crawl2yesBlocked
AmazonbotAmazon2yesBlocked
BytespiderByteDance2yesBlocked
cohere-aiCohere2noAllowed
MistralAI-UserMistral2noAllowed
YouBotYou.com2noAllowed
DuckAssistBotDuckDuckGo2noAllowed
kagi-fetcherKagi2noAllowed
DiffbotDiffbot2noAllowed
Google-NotebookLMGoogle2noAllowed
TavilyBotTavily2noAllowed
FirecrawlAgentFirecrawl2noAllowed

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