# Publishers

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## Chrome Adds Experimental Metrics to Measure Website Ad Load

DevFeed: [Chrome Adds Experimental Metrics to Measure Website Ad Load](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/chrome-can-now-measure-exactly-how-obnoxious-your-website-s-ads-are-41369.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://webdesignerdepot.com/chrome-can-now-measure-exactly-how-obnoxious-your-websites-ads-are/>)

Author: Alex Harper

Published: 2026-09-17T15:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Web Designer Depot](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/web-designer-depot.md>)

Topics: [Chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chrome.md>), [Web](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [User Experience](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/user-experience.md>), [Google](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google.md>), [developer tooling](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/developer-tooling.md>), [Core Web Vitals](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/core-web-vitals.md>)

Tags: [ad-density](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ad-density.md>), [ad-performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ad-performance.md>), [ad-tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ad-tech.md>), [advertising](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/advertising.md>), [chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chrome.md>), [chrome-user-experience-report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chrome-user-experience-report.md>), [core-web-vitals](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/core-web-vitals.md>), [crux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/crux.md>), [devtools](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/devtools.md>), [google](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google.md>), [google-chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-chrome.md>), [online-advertising](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/online-advertising.md>), [page-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/page-experience.md>), [performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/performance.md>), [publishers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/publishers.md>), [user-experience](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/user-experience.md>), [ux](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ux.md>), [ux-usability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ux-usability.md>), [web-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-design.md>), [web-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-development.md>), [web-performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-performance.md>), [website-ads](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/website-ads.md>), [website-optimization](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/website-optimization.md>), [website-performance](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/website-performance.md>)

### AI overview

Chrome has introduced four experimental metrics to the Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) that quantify website ad load: ad count, ad density, network weight, and CPU weight. The aggregated data is public and can be accessed through CrUX Vis, APIs, and Chrome DevTools, although availability and evaluation thresholds remain limited.

### Source excerpt

Chrome can now measure exactly how obnoxious a website's ads are, from how much of your screen they swallow to how much data and CPU time they burn. Those ad-stuffed websites can finally be measured, and the results are public.

## Cloudflare Adds Setting to Block AI Training Crawlers While Allowing Search Crawlers

DevFeed: [Cloudflare Adds Setting to Block AI Training Crawlers While Allowing Search Crawlers](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cloudflare-just-gave-ai-training-bots-the-middle-finger-31387.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://webdesignerdepot.com/cloudflare-just-gave-ai-training-bots-the-middle-finger/>)

Author: Alex Harper

Published: 2026-09-16T17:18:57Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [Web Designer Depot](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/web-designer-depot.md>)

Topics: [Cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloudflare.md>), [AI Bots](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-bots.md>), [Crawler](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/crawler.md>), [Google Search](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/google-search.md>), [Artificial Intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai.md>)

Tags: [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-crawlers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-crawlers.md>), [ai-tech](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-tech.md>), [ai-training](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-training.md>), [anthropic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/anthropic.md>), [artificial-intelligence](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/artificial-intelligence.md>), [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [content-protection](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/content-protection.md>), [future-of-the-web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/future-of-the-web.md>), [google-extended](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-extended.md>), [google-search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-search.md>), [googlebot](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/googlebot.md>), [openai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/openai.md>), [publishers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/publishers.md>), [robots-txt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/robots-txt.md>), [search](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search.md>), [search-engines](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/search-engines.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>), [web-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-design.md>), [web-development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-development.md>), [web-publishing](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-publishing.md>), [web-scraping](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web-scraping.md>), [website-traffic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/website-traffic.md>)

### AI overview

Cloudflare launched a Disallow AI Training setting that lets website owners allow traditional search crawlers while blocking training-only crawlers from companies including Amazon, Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI. The article notes that robots.txt depends on crawler compliance and that blocking Google-Extended does not remove content from Google Search features such as AI Overviews or AI Mode.

### Source excerpt

Cloudflare just gave website owners a new weapon against AI crawlers: keep the search traffic, block the AI training. After years of watching bots consume the web's content, publishers finally have an easier way to tell AI companies where to go.