Server logs: answer assistants ignored markdown twins
In short
GoodBarber reported two weeks of logs (4 to 18 September): training crawlers took about 80,000 markdown requests and coding agents about 22,000 negotiated ones, while ChatGPT, Claude on the web and Perplexity answering people fetched HTML over 13,000 times and markdown once.
Dated 22 September 2026. Source type: secondary source. Read the source, read 4 November 2026.
What it changes for a reader
- The guide to serving markdown on request shows the rule and the headers. Open it.
On this site
Sources
- GoodBarber: Do AI agents read Markdown https://www.goodbarber.com/blog/do-ai-agents-read-markdown-what-two-weeks-of-our-own-server-logs-say-a1622/, read 4 November 2026
Last reviewed 4 November 2026