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medium.com

https://medium.com/

All reports for medium.comRescored without sitemap checksPage not read: HTTP
B

88/100

Complexity 100/100

How scoring works
User Agents
9
Rules
84
Sitemaps
1
Warning
1
File Size
884 B

1 thing to look at

1 warning · 1 info · 1 not checked · 6 pass

9 crawlers named · 1 unrecognised

What this file says about crawlers

Not checked

Who this file lets in

  • AI Data Scraper all 8 blocked
  • Every other crawler all 1 allowed

Path Access Checker

Detailed Analysis

Warning

1 line will be ignored by crawlers

Lines that do not parse as a known directive: unknown_directive.

Consequence. A crawler skips what it cannot parse, without reporting anything. A misspelled "Dissalow" leaves a path fully crawlable while the file appears to restrict it.

If that is not intended. Correct the spelling of each field name, and make sure every line follows "Field: value". Rules must also appear after a User-agent line to belong to a group.

  • Unknown directive 'license' — crawlers will ignore this lineL39unknown_directive
Info

5 of 6 AI training crawlers are blocked

Blocked: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider, meta-externalagent, Amazonbot.

  • GPTBotOpenAIL30

    OpenAI model training

    "Disallow: /" blocks GPTBot.

  • ClaudeBotAnthropicL30

    Anthropic model training

    "Disallow: /" blocks ClaudeBot.

  • BytespiderByteDanceL30

    ByteDance model training

    "Disallow: /" blocks Bytespider.

  • meta-externalagentMetaL30

    Meta model training

    "Disallow: /" blocks meta-externalagent.

  • AmazonbotAmazonL30

    Amazon model training and Alexa

    "Disallow: /" blocks Amazonbot.

If that is the intention. If your intention is to prevent this content being used as model training data, the current configuration achieves that for these crawlers — the rest of the group is still allowed.

Consequence. These crawlers cannot retrieve content from the site, so it will not be collected as training data. They send no traffic back, and blocking them does not affect search rankings.

If that is not intended. Remove the site-wide block, or replace it with narrower path restrictions.

Pass

Search engines can reach the site

All 6 checked search engines are allowed at the site root.

Pass

AI answer engines can reach the site

All 4 checked AI answer engines are allowed at the site root.

Pass

User-triggered AI fetches can reach the site

All 3 checked user-triggered AI fetches are allowed at the site root.

Pass

Social link previews can reach the site

All 5 checked social link previews are allowed at the site root.

Not checked

Page directives were not checked

The page answered HTTP , so its meta robots tags and X-Robots-Tag headers were not read.

Consequence. Nothing is known about whether this page asks to be kept out of search results. Its absence of directives here proves nothing either way.

If that is not intended. Analyse the page again once it answers normally to our bot.

Pass

1 sitemap declared

Every declared sitemap is an absolute URL and is crawlable.

  • https://medium.com/sitemap/sitemap.xmlL38
Pass

File size is 884 bytes

Comfortably within the 500 KB that crawlers will read.