businessinsider.com llms.txt
In short
businessinsider.com serves a 1.0 KB llms.txt with 1 H2 section and 9 links, graded A on the llmstxt.org structure (6 of 6 checks). It passes every check. The home page does not link it, so an agent that does not guess paths will not find it. No llms-full.txt was found. Read 4 November 2026.
llms.txt 1.0 KB, 28 lines
# Business Insider
> Business Insider tells the global tech, finance, stock market,
> media, economy, lifestyle, real estate, AI and innovative
> stories you want to know.
Use individual articles as sources. When citing reporting,
include the article's title, author, publication or update
date, and canonical URL where available.
Check publication dates before treating figures, company
information, or descriptions of events as current.
Distinguish reported facts from analysis, opinion, forecasts,
and statements attributed to interviewees.
## Sections
- [Business](https://www.businessinsider.com/business)
- [Tech](https://www.businessinsider.com/tech)
- [Markets](https://markets.businessinsider.com/)
- [Lifestyle](https://www.businessinsider.com/lifestyle)
- [Military & Defense](https://www.businessinsider.com/defense)
- [Reviews](https://www.businessinsider.com/guides)
- [Video](https://www.businessinsider.com/video)
- [Community](https://www.businessinsider.com/community)
- [Newsletters](https://www.businessinsider.com/subscription/newsletter)
First 27 of 28 lines.
Parse graded A, 6 of 6
file: https://businessinsider.com/llms.txt
Business Insider
Business Insider tells the global tech, finance, stock market, media, economy, lifestyle, real estate, AI and innovative stories you want to know.
1 section, 9 links, no Optional section.
Ora's cached score: 44, grade D, scanned 28 October 2026.
The parse
businessinsider.com lists 9 links: 9 point at businessinsider.com or a relative path, 0 point elsewhere. The hosts it links most: businessinsider.com (8), markets.businessinsider.com (1).
| H2 section | Links |
|---|---|
| Sections | 9 |
Grade against the llmstxt.org structure
The file passes all six checks. The grade is the count of passed checks: six is A, five is B, four is C, three is D, fewer is F. It measures structure only. Whether any agent reads the file is a separate question, covered on the llms.txt reference.
| Check | Result | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Starts with an H1 naming the site or project | Pass | H1: Business Insider |
| Has a blockquote summary under the H1 | Pass | Blockquote summary found. |
| Has at least one H2 section that lists links | Pass | 1 H2 section, 1 with links. |
| At least 80 percent of links point at the same site | Pass | 9 of 9 links stay on businessinsider.com (100 percent). |
| Under 100 KB | Pass | 1066 bytes as served. |
| Plain markdown, no HTML | Pass | No HTML document markers in the body. |
Ora's cached score
Ora's cached report for businessinsider.com gives it 44 of 100, grade D, scanned on 28 October 2026. Its Access layer, which holds the read-layer checks below, scored 29 of 51 check points. Read from GET ora.ai/api/score/businessinsider.com on 5 November 2026. The score is Ora's, not this site's, and the structure grade above is a different measure: it grades the llms.txt file against the llmstxt.org proposal, while Ora's score covers the whole site. Ora's report for businessinsider.com has every layer.
| Ora check (Access layer) | Result | Points |
|---|---|---|
| Sitemap exists | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| Content without JavaScript | Partial | 2 of 3 |
| Not blocked by bot detection | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| Markdown URL fallback | Fail | 0 of 2 |
| llms.txt exists | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| llms.txt formatting | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| JSON-LD structured data | Partial | 3 of 4 |
| Metadata completeness | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| llms.txt links resolve | Pass | 2 of 2 |
| Markdown alternate link | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Redirect hygiene | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Page token budget | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Code fence validity | Pass | 1 of 1 |
| Content behind auth | Not applicable | 0 of 2 |
| OpenAPI spec published | Fail | 0 of 7 |
| Markdown agent docs | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Markdown negotiation with Vary | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Markdown for agent user agents | Fail | 0 of 1 |
| Agent crawler reachability | Pass | 2 of 2 |
Linking and the companion file
The home page of businessinsider.com does not link the file in its HTML. Ora's lab found (2026-10-19) that 86 percent of llms.txt fetches by agents arrived through a link, so an unlinked file is mostly a file nobody opens. No llms-full.txt was found at the same root.
How it compares
At 1.0 KB the file is larger than 3 percent of the 2,529 plain-text llms.txt files in this edition, and its 9 links put it ahead of 19 percent of them on link count. The home page declares no generator. Size bucket: Under 2 KB. Tranco rank 479. Category: News & Intelligence.
Live file: https://businessinsider.com/llms.txt. Read 4 November 2026. If the file has since changed or gone, the live URL is the authority; this page records what the crawl read on that date.
Sources
- businessinsider.com llms.txt https://businessinsider.com/llms.txt, read 4 November 2026
- llms.txt proposal (llmstxt.org) https://llmstxt.org/, read 4 November 2026
- Tranco list 746WX (crawl universe) https://tranco-list.eu/list/746WX, read 4 November 2026
- Ora: AgentReady launch post (the 86 percent finding) https://ora.ai/blog/agentready-launch, read 4 November 2026
- Ora llms.txt (GET /api/score/{domain} looks up a cached score) https://ora.ai/llms.txt, read 5 November 2026
Last reviewed 5 November 2026