Weekly report · 2001-W50

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,059 reachable domains for the week ending 2001-12-16. 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.

← 2001-W49 · 2001-W51 →

30,059

domains measured

block an answer engine

19%

refuse AI agents at the edge

15%

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	8.4%	2,531 of 30,058	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	8.2%	2,457 of 30,058	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	7.9%	2,384 of 30,058	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	7.1%	2,149 of 30,058	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	6.3%	1,891 of 30,058	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	6.2%	1,857 of 30,058	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	6.2%	1,855 of 30,058	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	6.2%	1,849 of 30,058	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	5.9%	1,770 of 30,058	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	5.8%	1,745 of 30,058	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	5.7%	1,699 of 30,058	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	5.6%	1,683 of 30,058	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	5.4%	1,635 of 30,058	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.5%	1,049 of 30,058	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.4%	1,027 of 30,058	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.3%	1,002 of 30,058	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.1%	936 of 30,058	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	3.0%	914 of 30,058	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	3.0%	896 of 30,058	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	2.9%	875 of 30,058	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	826 of 30,058	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.7%	818 of 30,058	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.4%	725 of 30,058	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.3%	695 of 30,058	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	2.2%	672 of 30,058	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.1%	617 of 30,058	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	614 of 30,058	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.8%	546 of 30,058	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.7%	515 of 30,058	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	508 of 30,058	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.6%	493 of 30,058	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.6%	471 of 30,058	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.5%	460 of 30,058	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.5%	455 of 30,058	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	446 of 30,058	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.3%	385 of 30,058	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.2%	361 of 30,058	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.9%	256 of 30,058	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	249 of 30,058	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.7%	202 of 30,058	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.4%	107 of 30,058	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	58 of 30,058	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	38 of 30,058	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	36 of 30,058	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	34 of 30,058	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	19 of 30,058	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	18 of 30,058	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	12 of 30,058	new

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 0 total

No crawler policy changes were recorded in this week.

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Crawl Census, "The state of AI crawling, 2001-W50", 2001-12-16. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2001-W50

Machine-readable: census totals, full corpus, crawler registry. Method: methodology.