Top-level domain
.co.uk
25 measured sites. 14 of them, 56.0%, block at least one answer-surface AI crawler. Mean readiness score 52.4.
Compare against every other top-level domain
| Rank | Domain | Score | Answer-surface crawlers | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 227 | bbc.co.uk | Score 41 out of 100, grade D | 9 blocked | Fastly |
| 317 | amazon.co.uk | Score 18 out of 100, grade F | 10 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 567 | telegraph.co.uk | Score 39 out of 100, grade F | 10 blocked | Adobe Experience Manager . Fastly |
| 602 | dailymail.co.ukrefused GPTBot | Score 30 out of 100, grade F | 11 blocked | Akamai |
| 665 | independent.co.uk | Score 72 out of 100, grade C | all allowed | Fastly |
| 699 | google.co.ukrefused GPTBot | Score 50 out of 100, grade D | all allowed | Google Cloud / GFE |
| 861 | ebay.co.uk | Score 51 out of 100, grade D | 5 blocked | Akamai |
| 1212 | rightmove.co.uk | Score 93 out of 100, grade A, partial assessment | 1 blocked | Fastly |
| 1256 | argos.co.uk | Score 83 out of 100, grade B, partial assessment | all allowed | Akamai |
| 2132 | thesun.co.uk | Score 35 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 8 blocked | unidentified |
| 2191 | mirror.co.uk | Score 38 out of 100, grade F | 6 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 2371 | guardian.co.uk | Score 44 out of 100, grade D | 6 blocked | unidentified |
| 2390 | livedns.co.uk | Score 49 out of 100, grade D | all allowed | unidentified |
| 2453 | express.co.uk | Score 41 out of 100, grade D | 5 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 2857 | thetimes.co.uk | Score 24 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 8 blocked | unidentified |
| 3091 | metro.co.ukrefused GPTBot | Score 38 out of 100, grade F | 11 blocked | WordPress |
| 3298 | tripadvisor.co.ukrefused GPTBot | Score 63 out of 100, grade C, partial assessment | 5 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 3344 | eventbrite.co.uk | Score 64 out of 100, grade C | all allowed | Next.js . Amazon CloudFront |
| 3359 | bbci.co.uk | Score 63 out of 100, grade C | all allowed | Fastly |
| 3395 | blogspot.co.ukrefused GPTBot | Score 50 out of 100, grade D | all allowed | Google Cloud / GFE |
| 3563 | standard.co.uk | Score 72 out of 100, grade C | all allowed | Cloudflare |
| 3874 | next.co.uk | Score 67 out of 100, grade C | all allowed | Akamai |
| 4014 | lloydsbank.co.uk | Score 56 out of 100, grade D | all allowed | Akamai |
| 4048 | autotrader.co.ukrefused GPTBot | Score 83 out of 100, grade B, partial assessment | all allowed | Cloudflare |
| 4607 | theregister.co.uk | Score 47 out of 100, grade D, partial assessment | 6 blocked | unidentified |
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CrawlIndex by Fidget Labs BV. "Agent readiness on .co.uk." https://crawlindex.org (measured 2026-08-09). Licensed CC BY 4.0.