New Statesman

newstatesman.com · United Kingdom · measured 4 Aug 2026

Google Search

Allowed

Google-Extended

Allowed

OpenAI

Blocked

Anthropic

Allowed

Perplexity

Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 4 Aug 2026, 528 bytes. 1 rule group name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: GPTBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
User-agent: RavenCrawler
User-agent: rogerbot
User-agent: dotbot
User-agent: SemrushBot
User-agent: SemrushBot-SA
User-agent: PowerMapper
User-agent: Swiftbot
User-agent: Twitterbot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Allow: /
Disallow: /magazine/
Disallow: /?s=*
Sitemap: https://www.newstatesman.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.newstatesman.com/news-sitemap.xml

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /

User-agent: YandexBot
Disallow: /

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United Kingdom

73.8% block at least one AI crawler

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