30/100 F #93 of 113
Audited September 7, 2026 from public surfaces only. Can AI agents discover, read, and act on duckduckgo.com? Check by check:
GPTBot: partial ClaudeBot: partial Claude-User: partial PerplexityBot: partial Google-Extended: partial CCBot: partial
| Check | Finding | Points | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| A1 | llms.txt for AI readers No /llms.txt found — AI readers get no curated entry point. |
0/15 | fail |
| A2 | AI crawler access policy robots.txt allows the major AI crawlers and agents. |
15/15 | pass |
| A3 | Content readable without a browser Plain fetch of the homepage yields ~28 words of visible text. |
0/25 | fail |
| A4 | Structured data (schema.org JSON-LD) No machine-readable entity markup on the homepage. |
0/15 | fail |
| A5 | Sitemap discoverable Sitemap advertised in robots.txt or served at /sitemap.xml. |
10/10 | pass |
| A6 | Everyday agent tasks reachable from the homepage Found from homepage: legal/privacy. |
5/20 | fail |
| B1 | MCP server advertised No MCP advertisement (bonus check — most sites skip this). |
0/5 | skip |
| B2 | OpenAPI description published No OpenAPI document (bonus check — only relevant for APIs). |
0/5 | skip |
A real agent ran an errand against duckduckgo.com in the Field Test — the score above is the prediction, this is the result.