Sites that block ChatGPT-User
1,042 of the 29,120 domains we have measured, 4%, disallow chatgpt-user at the site root in robots.txt. ChatGPT-User fetches a page live when a user asks the assistant for it.
Every domain here has removed itself from OpenAI's answers. Blocking a retrieval agent withholds nothing from model training, because training uses a different token.
1,042 of 29,120 measured domains (4%) disallow chatgpt-user 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 2026-08-24 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 ChatGPT-User", measured 2026-08-24. https://crawlcensus.com/blocked/chatgpt-user
The list 1,042 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 ChatGPT-User reference, the full census, and the JSON endpoint.