Sites that block Applebot
307 of the 25,276 domains we have measured, 1%, disallow applebot at the site root in robots.txt. Applebot builds the index that decides whether the operator's assistant cites a page.
Every domain here has removed itself from Apple's answers. Blocking a retrieval agent withholds nothing from model training, because training uses a different token.
307 of 25,276 measured domains (1%) disallow applebot at the site root in robots.txt. Every domain named on this page was fetched directly and its robots.txt parsed against RFC 9309; none of it is inferred from a third-party index.
Measured 2026-08-23 by direct request to every domain in the corpus. Method: how this is measured. Reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.
Cite as: Crawl Census, "Sites that block Applebot", measured 2026-08-23. https://crawlcensus.com/blocked/applebot
The list 307 domains
Rank is the domain's position in the popularity list used to seed the corpus; a dash means it was scanned on request rather than seeded. Score is the site's overall AI access score, which blocking depresses but does not by itself determine.
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See also the Applebot reference, the full census, and the JSON endpoint.