How Los Angeles Times appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews
A free AI-visibility snapshot for Los Angeles Times (latimes.com) — a national daily based in Los Angeles, CA.
Overall AI visibility
latimes.com
63/100
Grade D
Across the four AI engines we audit (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews), Los Angeles Times is rarely cited by the engines we tested, with an overall 63/100 score. The largest open lift is on the engines below where Los Angeles Times's articles are missing structured signals other national daily sites of the same size already publish.
ChatGPT
44
Crawler: GPTBot
GPTBot likely blocked or pages return JS-only shells.
Perplexity
88
Crawler: PerplexityBot
PerplexityBot ingests the archive; bylines and datelines are extracted.
Claude
69
Crawler: ClaudeBot
ClaudeBot allowed; speakable schema would lift answer-engine reuse.
Google AI Overviews
50
Crawler: Google-Extended
AIO surfaces the site occasionally; missing FAQ + speakable hurts.
What Los Angeles Times can ship this week
- Cross-link each article from at least two evergreen topic pages so AI engines can find it after the homepage rotates it off.
- Publish a `/llms.txt` at the root that maps your beats, reporter bios, and the canonical URL for each topic.
- Mark paywalled body content with `cssSelector` exclusions but leave the lede + first 200 words free — that's what answer engines quote.
- Server-render every article. JS-only shells fail GPTBot's HTML fetch and quietly drop you out of citations.
- Add `<script type="application/ld+json">` NewsArticle schema with `speakable`, `dateline`, and `isAccessibleForFree` to every story page.
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