Charles Schwab
schwab.comWe could not read this site's robots.txt, its public rules file for bots (a refusal page sent with HTTP 200 instead of an error code). A refusal like this usually comes from anti-bot software, not from the site's written rules, so on its own it does not count as a block. The homepage also turned our bot, which says who it is, away with a refusal page sent with HTTP 200 instead of an error code. Charles Schwab says it blocks unauthorized outside AI agents that log in with client credentials or drive a browser (American Banker, 15 Oct 2026). Under our rules, that statement plus our bot being turned away sets the status to Blocks AI.
Last checked 19 Oct 2026. Rules file could not be read. Everything we checked · History
Bots that train AI Unknown
Blocking these keeps the site out of future AI training. It does not stop AI from reading the site to answer questions.
Bots for AI search Unknown
Blocking these usually means the site stops showing up as a source in AI answers.
AI assistants Unknown
5 of these 7 companies say their assistants may ignore robots.txt.
Bot by bot
We could not read the rules file, so we can't say which bots are allowed.
The rules file (robots.txt)
Everything else we checked
| Front door | Turned away The homepage turned our bot, which says who it is, away with a refusal page sent with HTTP 200 instead of an error code.GET https://www.schwab.com/ as WalledWebBot, from a residential connection in the United States |
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| llms.txt | Refused: a refusal page sent with HTTP 200 instead of an error codehttps://www.schwab.com/llms.txt |
| ai.txt | Refused: a refusal page sent with HTTP 200 instead of an error code |
| TDMRep | Refused: a refusal page sent with HTTP 200 instead of an error code/.well-known/tdmrep.json (W3C Community Group report) |
| Anti-bot software | Served through Akamai.From response headers and cookie names only. A cookie shows the product is there, not how it is set up. |
| Readable by AI | No schema.org structured data on the homepage. Readable text is present in the HTML.Homepage only. Useful for site owners; not part of the result. |
| Terms of Service | No Terms of Service page found. |
| Not found | No Content-Signal or Content-Usage lines, licensing signals (RSL License, HTTP 402) or robots meta tags. |
History
38 versions on record since 1 Jan 2023
One square per month, from Internet Archive copies and our own daily checks. Dark: blocked. Gray: some blocked. Light: allowed. Striped: no copy that month.
No AI-relevant changes in 38 recorded versions since 1 Jan 2023.
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