Evening Standard

standard.co.uk · United Kingdom · Evening Standard Limited · measured 8 Oct 2026

Google Search

Allowed

Google-Extended

Allowed

OpenAI

Allowed

Anthropic

Allowed

Perplexity

Allowed

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 422 bytes. No rule names an AI crawler.

User-agent: AdsBot-Google
User-agent: AdsBot-Google-Mobile
User-agent: *
Disallow: /api/
Disallow: /internal-api/
Disallow: /*ILC-refresh
Disallow: /cdn-cgi/

User-agent: AmazonAdBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Nutch
Disallow: /
Sitemap: https://www.standard.co.uk/sitemaps/googlenews
Sitemap: https://www.standard.co.uk/sitemap.xml

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

United Kingdom

73.8% block at least one AI crawler

Behind Cloudflare

Yes