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Posted in[Uncategorized](https://amherstbulletin.com/category/uncategorized/) # Letter: Proven record by [Staff Report](https://amherstbulletin.com/author/staff-report/) March 1, 2016 ### Share this: - [Facebook](https://amherstbulletin.com/2016/03/01/opinion-letters-letter-proven-record/) - [Print](https://amherstbulletin.com/2016/03/01/opinion-letters-letter-proven-record/#print) - [Email](mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Letter%3A%20Proven%20record&body=https%3A%2F%2Famherstbulletin.com%2F2016%2F03%2F01%2Fopinion-letters-letter-proven-record%2F&share=email) - ---  Phyllis Lehrer ## AN AMHERST BULLETIN WEEKLY COLUMN ###### [T](https://www.amherstbulletin.com/The-Lehrer-Report)HE [LEHRER REPORT](https://amherstbulletin.com/the-lehrer-report/) A tradition in your hometown weekly. --- ## Most Read [](https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/10/12/hadley-man-admits-to-importing-plutonium-from-russia/)[Hadley man admits to importing, selling plutonium from Russia](https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/10/12/hadley-man-admits-to-importing-plutonium-from-russia/)Anthony Cammalleri [](https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/10/09/western-mass-residents-urge-healey-to-intervene-in-eversource-plan/)[Western Mass. residents urge Healey to intervene in Eversource plan](https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/10/09/western-mass-residents-urge-healey-to-intervene-in-eversource-plan/)Scott Merzbach [](https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/10/12/peta-public-records-lawsuits-seek-identities-of-umass-animal-research-panel-members/)[PETA public records lawsuits seek identities of UMass animal research panel members](https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/10/12/peta-public-records-lawsuits-seek-identities-of-umass-animal-research-panel-members/)Scott Merzbach *[Sign up for the Bulletin's Headline Alerts](https://amherstbulletin.com/2016/03/01/opinion-letters-letter-proven-record/#) daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential news each day.* --- I was taken aback to read Chris Collins’ column in The Recorder and to learn that “some people have caught the Bernie bug from scads of younger voters” etc., etc. I have lived long enough and voted in enough elections to see how the political process works in this country. I think it’s great that younger people are involved and concerned but I have known about Bernie Sanders for years. He is not only the candidate of the young and inexperienced. Bernie has been re-elected to multiple terms as both the mayor of Burlington, Vt., and as a U.S. senator from that state. He is no political newcomer and his views about what this country should look like have remained consistent. The blatant buying of elections, i.e., the lack of meaningful limits on campaign contributions, the lack of an easily navigated universal health care system, increasing wealth inequality, military adventurism in search of profit in foreign countries. These are the issues that Bernie is talking about in this election and has talked about in past elections. His point of view has remained the same. I’m voting for Bernie on Tuesday. LEWIS BECKER Leyden ## Did we miss something we should have covered? ### Tell us about it - [click here](https://amherstbulletin.com/2016/03/01/opinion-letters-letter-proven-record/#) to send us a note. ### *Related* ## Latest News ### [Cue the music: Dancer-turned-novelist Molly Terrill finds her story in her luthier father’s workshop](https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/10/19/cue-the-music-dancer-turned-novelist-molly-terrill-finds-her-story-in-her-luthier-fathers-workshop/) By MELISSA KAREN SANCES ### [Hadley man admits to importing, selling plutonium from Russia](https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/10/12/hadley-man-admits-to-importing-plutonium-from-russia/) by [Anthony Cammalleri](https://amherstbulletin.com/author/acammalleri/) ### [PETA public records lawsuits seek identities of UMass animal research panel members](https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/10/12/peta-public-records-lawsuits-seek-identities-of-umass-animal-research-panel-members/) by [Scott Merzbach](https://amherstbulletin.com/author/smerzbach/) ## [Around Amherst: Chamber to bestow A+ Awards](https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/10/19/around-amherst-chamber-to-bestow-a-awards/) by [Scott Merzbach](https://amherstbulletin.com/author/smerzbach/) ## [The Lehrer Report: Oct. 15, 2026](https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/10/19/the-lehrer-report-oct-15-2026/) by [Phyllis Lehrer](https://amherstbulletin.com/author/phyllis-lehrer/) ## [Victory Lap with Jessica Lapachinski: Red flags in youth sports I wouldn’t ignore](https://amherstbulletin.com/2026/10/12/victory-lap-with-jessica-lapachinski-red-flags-in-youth-sports-i-wouldnt-ignore/) By JESSICA LAPACHINSKI ---
An agent gets this page whole: its own text is in the HTML the server sends.
The figures
100 pages, set against the 167,893 sites with figures.
- Readablehigher is better
- 100%100 of 100 pages
- All 167,893 sitesBetter than 47%
Pages whose own text is in the HTML the server sends, enough of it for their kind.
- Cleanhigher is better
- 76%middle page
- All 167,893 sitesBetter than 58%
Of the words before script, the share that are the page and not menus, footer and forms.
- Costshown, never scored
- 228,875tokens
- About 2,289 a page
To read every page once. A long page that answers well is not worse for it. Tokens are estimated at about 4 characters each.
How its pages spread on Clean
100 pages measured.
Against its rivals
The sites nearest it by what they do, with figures. Close means similar work, not better.
| Readinghigher is better | Costnot scored | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Site | Readable | Clean | Tokens a page |
| amherstbulletin.comThis site, 100 pages | 100% | 76% | 2,289 |
| atholdailynews.com100 pages | 100% | 68% | 1,662 |
| ledgertranscript.com99 pages | 100% | 64% | 1,448 |
| thepublicsradio.org95 pages | 99% | 57% | 1,333 |
First of 4 on Readable, first on Clean.
AI crawler access
What robots.txt says to each, as read on October 24, 2026. 4 of 8 may read the site.
| Crawler | robots.txt says | Used for | The line that decides |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | Blocked | Training models | User-agent: GPTBot / Disallow: / |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | Not named | ChatGPT search | Falls to User-agent: * |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | Blocked | A page a person asks about | User-agent: ChatGPT-User / Disallow: / |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | Not named | Training models | Falls to User-agent: * |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | Not named | Claude’s search | Falls to User-agent: * |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | Blocked | Perplexity search | User-agent: PerplexityBot / Disallow: / |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | Blocked | Training Gemini | User-agent: Google-Extended / Disallow: / |
| bingbotMicrosoft | Not named | Bing and Copilot | Falls to User-agent: * |
4 of 8 are kept out. A crawler kept out never reads a page, however well it is made.
Every page
Worst first. Each opens in Agent View at the top.
1 page of 100 loses something. Pick a loss to see what to do about it.Open the action plan
Show where it stands
A card, a badge and a line, each with the figures.
A badge for the site
<a href="https://mttr.si/agent-view/amherstbulletin.com"><img src="https://mttr.si/agent-view/amherstbulletin.com/badge.svg" alt="Agent View: 100% readable, 76% clean" height="20"></a>
The figures in one line
amherstbulletin.com in Agent View: 100% of pages readable, better than 47% of sites; 76% clean; 228,875 tokens to read all 100 pages. mttr.si/agent-view/amherstbulletin.com
What to do next
Fix the pages, let an agent do it, and read the site again to see the figures move.
Connect your agent
Claude Code, Codex or Cursor reads the site’s fixes over MCP, fixes a page in your code, has mttr read it again, and checks the fix landed.
https://mttr.si/mcpSet up an agent
Claim the site
Prove it is yours with a DNS record or a file. Your agent can then reach its reads and jobs, and set each change to wait for your approval.
Claim the siteDrawn from the HTML mttr fetched on its read of October 24, 2026, not a screenshot, and only from the 100 pages read, where the read stopped at its page limit. An assistant’s own reader may differ. Tokens are estimated at about 4 characters each. A site an agent reads well is not a site an assistant cites.