Can AI read washingtonpost.com?
washingtonpost.com blocks PerplexityBot in its robots.txt, so Perplexity cannot cite it. 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
Could not fetch the homepage (520), so I cannot tell how much text a crawler would get.
✗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).
I could not fetch this site's homepage, so I cannot tell whether it sends readable text.