Public AI visibility report
bbc.com
Measured facts
| AI readability score | 61.8/100 (grade C) |
|---|---|
| Prose parity, crawler against browser | 92% |
| Retrievability | 92% |
| Crawler access | 0% |
| Structure | 77% |
| Structured data | 40% |
| Page title | pass |
| Meta description | pass |
| Exactly one H1 | fail |
| Canonical link | pass |
| Heading coverage | pass |
| No wall of text | pass |
| llms.txt | fail |
| Words an AI crawler received | 2,232 |
| Words a browser rendered | 2,270 |
| Named AI crawlers allowed by robots.txt | 2 of 15 |
| Schema types in the crawler's HTML | WebPage |
| Redirects before the page | 1 |
What the scan found on bbc.com
- An AI crawler requesting bbc.com received 2,232 words of main text, against 2,270 in a browser, a prose parity of 92%.
- robots.txt blocks AI search crawlers. OAI-SearchBot: Disallow: /; PerplexityBot: Disallow: /
- robots.txt blocks AI assistant user agents. ChatGPT-User: Disallow: /; Perplexity-User: Disallow: /
- Server-level blocking of AI crawler user agents. Perplexity-User got HTTP 403. Servers that verify crawler IPs will block a spoofed user agent from any scanner; the real crawler may pass.
- Page does not have exactly one H1. Found 0 H1 elements in the initial HTML.
- No llms.txt. No llms.txt at the site root.
- URL redirects off the original domain. bbc.com redirected to www.bbc.com (1 hop(s)).
- Structured data uses no recognized business type. types found: WebPage
- robots.txt on bbc.com blocks GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Meta-ExternalAgent, Bytespider, CCBot, Amazonbot.
- The homepage HTML is missing or failing: exactly one h1, llms.txt.
- Structured data in the crawler's HTML: WebPage.
- The address redirected 1 time before the page loaded.
Top 3 issues
- robots.txt blocks AI search crawlers. Allow the AI search crawlers you want citations from (they fetch to answer user queries, not to train).
- robots.txt blocks AI assistant user agents. Assistant user agents fetch on behalf of a human asking about you; blocking them removes you from those answers.
- Server-level blocking of AI crawler user agents. Requests with AI crawler user agents get blocked at the edge. Review CDN/WAF bot rules if you want AI visibility.
How to fix them: the Next.js guide , or the full report with the evidence.
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