Weekly report · 2026-W41 · current
The state of AI crawling
Measured on 30,226 reachable domains for the week ending 2026-10-11. Every figure is the result of an automated audit run the same way on every domain: read robots.txt, resolve the rules for 48 tracked agents, then send live requests as four of them.
← 2026-W40 · this is the latest
30,226
domains measured
7%
block an answer engine
19%
refuse AI agents at the edge
14%
publish an llms.txt
Block rate by crawler with change on the previous week
| Crawler | Operator | Content used for | Block rate | Sites | Week on week |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPTBot | OpenAI | training | 7.1% | 2,153 of 30,223 | level |
| CCBot | Common Crawl Foundation | archive | 6.9% | 2,072 of 30,223 | level |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | training | 6.5% | 1,964 of 30,223 | level |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | training | 5.8% | 1,747 of 30,223 | level |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | training | 4.8% | 1,438 of 30,223 | level |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | training | 4.7% | 1,420 of 30,223 | level |
| Google-Extended | training | 4.6% | 1,393 of 30,223 | level | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | training | 4.6% | 1,384 of 30,223 | level |
| anthropic-ai | Anthropic | training | 4.4% | 1,328 of 30,223 | level |
| omgilibot | Webz.io | training | 4.3% | 1,298 of 30,223 | level |
| Diffbot | Diffbot | training | 4.1% | 1,233 of 30,223 | level |
| cohere-ai | Cohere | live retrieval | 4.1% | 1,230 of 30,223 | level |
| omgili | Webz.io | training | 3.9% | 1,182 of 30,223 | level |
| SemrushBot-OCOB | Semrush | training | 3.7% | 1,129 of 30,223 | level |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | answer index | 3.5% | 1,054 of 30,223 | level |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | live retrieval | 3.5% | 1,053 of 30,223 | level |
| FacebookBot | Meta | training | 3.3% | 985 of 30,223 | level |
| YouBot | You.com | answer index | 3.0% | 897 of 30,223 | level |
| ImagesiftBot | ImageSift (Hive) | training | 2.8% | 852 of 30,223 | level |
| Timpibot | Timpi | training | 2.8% | 837 of 30,223 | level |
| Scrapy | Zyte (open-source framework) | training | 2.5% | 745 of 30,223 | level |
| AI2Bot | Allen Institute for AI | training | 2.3% | 708 of 30,223 | level |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | answer index | 2.2% | 650 of 30,223 | level |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | Cohere | training | 2.1% | 624 of 30,223 | level |
| Meta-ExternalFetcher | Meta | live retrieval | 1.8% | 556 of 30,223 | level |
| DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | live retrieval | 1.7% | 523 of 30,223 | level |
| PanguBot | Huawei | training | 1.7% | 518 of 30,223 | level |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | live retrieval | 1.6% | 498 of 30,223 | level |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | answer index | 1.6% | 485 of 30,223 | level |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | live retrieval | 1.6% | 469 of 30,223 | level |
| Kangaroo Bot | Kangaroo LLM | training | 1.5% | 465 of 30,223 | level |
| MistralAI-User | Mistral AI | live retrieval | 1.5% | 453 of 30,223 | level |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | live retrieval | 1.4% | 422 of 30,223 | level | |
| GoogleOther | training | 1.3% | 384 of 30,223 | level | |
| Meta-WebIndexer | Meta | answer index | 1.2% | 359 of 30,223 | level |
| Applebot | Apple | answer index | 1.1% | 344 of 30,223 | level |
| TikTokSpider | ByteDance | live retrieval | 0.8% | 255 of 30,223 | level |
| Amzn-SearchBot | Amazon | answer index | 0.8% | 240 of 30,223 | level |
| Amzn-User | Amazon | live retrieval | 0.6% | 172 of 30,223 | level |
| MistralAI-Training | Mistral AI | training | 0.5% | 145 of 30,223 | level |
| MistralAI-Index | Mistral AI | answer index | 0.3% | 85 of 30,223 | level |
| facebookexternalhit | Meta | live retrieval | 0.2% | 54 of 30,223 | level |
| Bingbot | Microsoft | answer index | 0.1% | 41 of 30,223 | level |
| Googlebot-News | answer index | 0.1% | 36 of 30,223 | level | |
| Meta-ExternalAds | Meta | training | 0.1% | 22 of 30,223 | level |
| msnbot | Microsoft | answer index | 0.1% | 20 of 30,223 | level |
| Googlebot | answer index | 0.1% | 16 of 30,223 | level | |
| OAI-AdsBot | OpenAI | live retrieval | 0.0% | 11 of 30,223 | level |
Trend share of measured sites
Where the blocking is share blocking an answer engine, by top-level domain
Only TLDs with at least 40 measured domains are shown, and each bar carries its sample size. A TLD is a weak proxy for jurisdiction. Full segmentation.
Changes recorded this week 200 total
- test-uz.ru GPTBot is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru GPTBot is now refused at the network edge, whatever robots.txt permits
- test-uz.ru OAI-SearchBot is now refused at the network edge, whatever robots.txt permits
- test-uz.ru ChatGPT-User is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru ClaudeBot is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru ClaudeBot is now refused at the network edge, whatever robots.txt permits
- test-uz.ru Claude-User is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru Claude-SearchBot is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru anthropic-ai is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru PerplexityBot is now refused at the network edge, whatever robots.txt permits
- test-uz.ru FacebookBot is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru Bytespider is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru Amazonbot is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru CCBot is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru Diffbot is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru omgili is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru omgilibot is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru cohere-ai is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru ImagesiftBot is now allowed by robots.txt
- test-uz.ru AI access score moved 69 to 52
- travix.com GPTBot is now refused at the network edge, whatever robots.txt permits
- travix.com OAI-SearchBot is now refused at the network edge, whatever robots.txt permits
- travix.com ClaudeBot is now refused at the network edge, whatever robots.txt permits
- travix.com PerplexityBot is now refused at the network edge, whatever robots.txt permits
- travix.com AI access score moved 68 to 51
- cloudamqp.com AI access score moved 73 to 91
- football365.com SemrushBot-OCOB is now blocked by robots.txt
- tgstat.ru GPTBot is now blocked by robots.txt
- tgstat.ru SemrushBot-OCOB is now blocked by robots.txt
- tgstat.ru AI access score moved 48 to 71
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Crawl Census, "The state of AI crawling, 2026-W41", 2026-10-11. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2026-W41Machine-readable: census totals, full corpus, crawler registry. Method: methodology.