citizen.co.za
As of Nov 9, 2026, citizen.co.za's ads.txt lists 117 seller lines across 32 ad systems, its robots.txt allows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, and 1 more, and its DMARC policy is reject.
Checked daily since Nov 1, 2026. JSON. Link to this check. Run this site? Remove or correct this report.
Checked Nov 9, 2026, 22:15 UTC
| File | Status | What the robot saw | Same since |
|---|---|---|---|
| ads.txt | REVALIDATED | 117 seller lines, 32 ad systems. | 2026-11-06 |
| app-ads.txt | NOT_FOUND | Not found. The site answered 404. | 2026-11-04, first check |
| sellers.json | NOT_FOUND | Not found. The site answered 404. 29 lines have no matching seller at appnexus.com, freewheel.tv, google.com, insurads.com, and 4 more. Evidence 32 lines not judged: the ad system's sellers.json could not be read. | 2026-11-05, first check |
| robots.txt | SUCCESS | 5 rules for 5 AI crawlers. Allows GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot, and 1 more. | 2026-11-07, first check |
| llms.txt | SUCCESS | Published. Title: The Citizen South Africa. | 2026-11-07, first check |
| DMARC | SUCCESS | p=reject, pct=100. Reports on. | 2026-11-07, first check |
| MTA-STS | NOT_FOUND | No MTA-STS record. | 2026-11-07, first check |
| BIMI | NOT_FOUND | No BIMI record. | 2026-11-07, first check |
| security.txt | SUCCESS | Contact: mailto:webadmin@citizen.co.za. Expired 2026-07-31. | 2026-11-07, first check |
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