Can AI read sfgate.com?

sfgate.com blocks PerplexityBot in its robots.txt, so Perplexity cannot cite it. Its homepage also sends an almost-empty page that fills in with JavaScript, so a crawler reads no text. Read live from the site's own robots.txt with Google's reference parser.

AI search crawlers can reach it
Blocked: PerplexityBot
Homepage is readable by crawlers
The page returned very little text. Worth checking that real content is in the HTML, not loaded later by JavaScript.
Has an llms.txt
No /llms.txt. It is an emerging, optional convention, not required to be cited today. You can generate one at https://ai-visibility.lastminutedealshq.com/llms-txt

Perplexity cannot index you for AI answers (robots.txt blocks PerplexityBot).

Your homepage may not be readable by AI crawlers (little or no text in the HTML).

Check your own site or see the crawler census.