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thesouthafrican.com

thesouthafrican.com · South Africa · measured 8 Oct 2026

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

robots.txt

As read on 8 Oct 2026, 387 bytes. No rule names an AI crawler.

Sitemap: https://www.thesouthafrican.com/sitemap_index.xml

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-content/uploads/jeg/
Disallow: /*.htm
Disallow: /wp-json/oembed/1.0/embed
Disallow: /page/*/page/
Disallow: /*?s=*page*
Disallow: /*?s=*feed*
Disallow: /*/?s=*%2F
Disallow: /search/pretoria_cbd/

User-agent: AhrefsBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: PiplBot
Disallow: /

User-agent: Yandex
Disallow: /search/

History

Changes recorded since June 2026.

No change recorded.

In context

South Africa
22.1% block at least one AI crawler
Behind Cloudflare
No