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stuff.co.za

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

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 1,734 bytes. 2 rule groups name AI crawlers; shown first.

User-agent: Amazonbot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Bytespider
Disallow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /wp-includes/
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/
Disallow: /wp-config.php
Disallow: /wp-load.php
Disallow: /wp-cron.php
Disallow: /wp-links-opml.php
Disallow: /wp-mail.php
Disallow: /wp-trackback.php
Disallow: /wp-activate.php
Disallow: /wp-signup.php
Disallow: /wp-comments-post.php
Disallow: /xmlrpc.php
Disallow: /readme.html
Disallow: /license.txt
Disallow: /*?s=
Disallow: /*&s=
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /*?preview=true
Disallow: /*?replytocom=
Disallow: /*/feed/
Disallow: /tag/*/feed/
Disallow: /category/*/feed/
Disallow: /author/*/feed/
Disallow: /*/trackback/
Disallow: /*.sql$
Disallow: /*.log$
Disallow: /*.bak$
Disallow: /*?page=
Disallow: /*?paged=

User-agent: Googlebot
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

User-agent: Bingbot
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

User-agent: SemrushBot
Crawl-delay: 86400

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Crawl-delay: 86400

User-agent: MJ12bot
Crawl-delay: 86400
Sitemap: https://stuff.co.za/news-sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://stuff.co.za/sitemap_index.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