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Canada's National Observer

nationalobserver.com · Canada · Observer Media Group · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 4,122 bytes. 16 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

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Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
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Allow: /profiles/*.js?
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Disallow: /sites/default/files/js/*.js?

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Sitemap: https://www.nationalobserver.com/sitemap.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

Canada
45.2% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
Yes