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6 access agent(s) blocked: ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, Perplexity-User, PerplexityBot, YouBot, Amazonbot — these keep your site out of AI answers. 10 training-data crawler(s) blocked (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, anthropic-ai, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended, Bytespider, CCBot, cohere-ai, Diffbot, Meta-ExternalAgent) — a licensing choice, not scored.

Fix · Next.js: Allow GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot in robots.txt (or remove the blanket Disallow).

No HTTP Link: response headers. Emit canonical/alternate/describedby relations so HEAD-only or stream-rendering agents get them without parsing HTML.

Fix: Emit `Link:` headers for canonical, alternate-language, and describedby relations. Agents that fetch HEAD-only or stream-render rely on these.

Visible text is 2.5% of HTML weight (15419/626588 bytes). Low. Markup may be crowding out agent-usable text.

Fix: Heavy ad or navigation markup crowds out agent-usable text. Aim for a text-to-DOM ratio above 15%.

Browser pass unavailable; HTML looks like a JS-shell (e.g. #__next / #root). Likely JS-dependent.

Fix · Next.js: Render primary content on the server: use Server Components (App Router) or getServerSideProps/SSG (Pages Router). Avoid fetching above-the-fold content in a client useEffect, since agents don’t run it.

<title> is 116 characters; keep it under 70 so it isn't truncated.

Fix: Add a concise <title> tag. Agents often cite it verbatim.

Page looks like Article|BlogPosting|NewsArticle / FAQPage; missing JSON-LD type(s): Article|BlogPosting|NewsArticle, FAQPage.

Fix: Align JSON-LD type to page purpose. Product pages without Product markup are skipped by agent shopping flows.

# Allow AI agents (AgentSpeed-generated)
User-agent: GPTBot
Allow: /

User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
Allow: /

User-agent: ClaudeBot
Allow: /

User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /

User-agent: Google-Extended
Allow: /

Sitemap: https://bbc.com/sitemap.xml

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