Tranco rank 4,968
thebalancemoney.com
thebalancemoney.com scores 37 out of 100 for agent readiness. It blocks 8 of 11 answer-surface AI crawlers.
Measured
- Last measured
- 2026-10-12 10:02 UTC
- First seen
- 2026-10-12
- Rubric / probe
- v2.0.0 / v3.0.0
Vantage
Where the request came from. Origins serve differently by geography and IP reputation, so an observation is only comparable with another taken from the same place. Everything here is measured from GitHub runners in the US and EU. More- gha-ubuntu
Policy posture
Whether anyone actually decided. Deliberate means robots.txt names AI crawlers by token. Inherited means it names none, so whatever AI policy exists is a side effect of generic rules. Blanket means one rule for everyone. Absent means no robots.txt at all. More
Policy posture
Whether anyone actually decided. Deliberate means robots.txt names AI crawlers by token. Inherited means it names none, so whatever AI policy exists is a side effect of generic rules. Blanket means one rule for everyone. Absent means no robots.txt at all. MoreDeliberate
robots.txt names AI crawlers by token. Somebody at this organisation decided what AI systems may do with the site.
Access archetype
The shape of the policy rather than its size. Open, no training, assistant only, selective, walled, metered, or undeclared. More
Access archetype
The shape of the policy rather than its size. Open, no training, assistant only, selective, walled, metered, or undeclared. MoreMetered
Access is sold rather than refused. An unpaid agent gets HTTP 402 Payment Required.
Served through Cloudflare. Compare against everything else on the same stack.
This site charges agents for access
HTTP 402 Payment Required answered to an unpaid agent. Access is being metered and sold rather than refused, and it is tracked as its own category because averaging it with a block would misdescribe both. More
This site charges agents for access
HTTP 402 Payment Required answered to an unpaid agent. Access is being metered and sold rather than refused, and it is tracked as its own category because averaging it with a block would misdescribe both. MoreIt 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
| Band | Earned | Available | Nominal maximum |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agent access | 10.9 | 38 | 45 |
| Machine-readable surface | 7 | 11 | 25 |
| Content structure | 0 | 0 | 30 |
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. There is no clean baseline to compare against, because our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
Machine-readable surface7 / 11
- 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 read cleanly, because our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
- agents.md published. Not assessed. /agents.md could not be read cleanly, because our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
- Licence terms declared. No RSL License directive and no licence link relation. Reuse terms are undeclared.
- Granular usage preferences declared. No Content-Signal directive. Policy is expressed only as allow or deny.
- Agent card published. Not assessed. /.well-known/agent-card.json could not be read cleanly, because our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
Content structurenot assessed
- Organization schema. Not assessed, because our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
- WebSite schema. Not assessed, because our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
- Additional structured data. Not assessed, because our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
- Readable without JavaScript. Not assessed, because our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
- Single top-level heading. Not assessed, because our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
- Semantic landmarks. Not assessed, because our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
- Dateline declared. Not assessed, because our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
- Authorship declared. Not assessed, because our control request was challenged by a bot wall.
What would move this score
The observable checks that did not earn full marks, heaviest first. Only these; a check we could not observe is not on the list, because it is not a fact about the site.
- +21.8Answer-surface crawlers allowed. 8 of 11 blocked: ClaudeBot, Claude-User, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, meta-externalagent.
- +5.3Secondary crawlers allowed. 8 of 12 blocked: CCBot, Amazonbot, Bytespider, cohere-ai, MistralAI-User, YouBot, DuckAssistBot, FirecrawlAgent.
- +2Licence terms declared. No RSL License directive and no licence link relation. Reuse terms are undeclared.
- +2Granular usage preferences declared. No Content-Signal directive. Policy is expressed only as allow or deny.
Extraction profile
How cheap this page is for a retrieval pipeline to chunk. Recorded and published, deliberately not scored: it describes a shape rather than a pass or a fail, and compressing it into the grade would destroy the useful part.
- Server text
- 318 chars
- Text density
- 52%
- Subheadings
- 0
- Lists
- 0
- Tables
- 0
- Feed
- no
Crawler policy
Read from thebalancemoney.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.
| Crawler | Operator | Tier | Named | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | OpenAI | 1 | yes | Allowed |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | 1 | yes | Allowed |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | 1 | yes | Allowed |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | 1 | yes | Blocked |
| Google-Extended | 1 | yes | Blocked | |
| 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 | yes | Blocked |
| YouBot | You.com | 2 | yes | Blocked |
| DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | 2 | yes | Blocked |
| kagi-fetcher | Kagi | 2 | no | Allowed |
| Diffbot | Diffbot | 2 | no | Allowed |
| Google-NotebookLM | 2 | no | Allowed | |
| TavilyBot | Tavily | 2 | no | Allowed |
| FirecrawlAgent | Firecrawl | 2 | yes | Blocked |
No mark at this score
The embeddable mark starts at grade B, because offering a graphic nobody would put on their own site is a pretence rather than a feature. The list above is the useful version: for most sites the points are concentrated in two or three changes. How the mark works.
The neutral mark above exists and is free to use if you want to show that the site is independently measured whatever the number says.
crawl 2026-10-12 10:08 UTCprobe 3.0.0rubric 2.0.0registry 1.0.0vantage gha-ubuntu3,685 of 5,006 reachable
Using these figures
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