Mail & Guardian

mg.co.za · South Africa · measured 8 Oct 2026

Google Search

Allowed

Google-Extended

Allowed

OpenAI

Allowed

Anthropic

Allowed

Perplexity

Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 164 bytes. 1 rule group name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-Agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /
Disallow: /preview/v1/
Sitemap: https://mg.co.za/sitemap.xml

User-Agent: *
Allow: /
Disallow: /_next/
Disallow: /preview/v1/

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

South Africa

22.1% block at least one AI crawler

Behind Cloudflare

Yes