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ewn.co.za · South Africa · Primedia · measured 8 Oct 2026

Google Search
Allowed
Google-Extended
Blocked
OpenAI
Blocked
Anthropic
Blocked
Perplexity
Allowed
Meta
Blocked
Common Crawl
Blocked
ByteDance
Allowed
Apple
Blocked
Amazon
Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 677 bytes. 2 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: facebookexternalhit
User-agent: FacebookBot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalFetcher
User-agent: Twitterbot
User-agent: LinkedInBot
Allow: /

User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: CCBot
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: Applebot-Extended
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /preview/
Disallow: /bookmarks/
Disallow: /user/
Disallow: /test-ad
Disallow: /ui
Disallow: /search?
Disallow: /_payload/
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/
Sitemap: https://www.ewn.co.za/sitemap.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

South Africa
22.1% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
Yes