Weekly report · 2002-W04
The state of AI crawling
Measured on 30,058 reachable domains for the week ending 2002-01-27. 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.
30,058
domains measured
8%
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% | 2,517 of 30,057 | new |
| CCBot | Common Crawl Foundation | archive | 8.1% | 2,443 of 30,057 | new |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | training | 7.9% | 2,369 of 30,057 | new |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | training | 7.1% | 2,132 of 30,057 | new |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | training | 6.2% | 1,875 of 30,057 | new |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | training | 6.1% | 1,842 of 30,057 | new |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | training | 6.1% | 1,838 of 30,057 | new |
| Google-Extended | training | 6.1% | 1,834 of 30,057 | new | |
| anthropic-ai | Anthropic | training | 5.8% | 1,756 of 30,057 | new |
| omgilibot | Webz.io | training | 5.8% | 1,729 of 30,057 | new |
| Diffbot | Diffbot | training | 5.6% | 1,683 of 30,057 | new |
| cohere-ai | Cohere | live retrieval | 5.6% | 1,669 of 30,057 | new |
| omgili | Webz.io | training | 5.4% | 1,618 of 30,057 | new |
| SemrushBot-OCOB | Semrush | training | 3.5% | 1,055 of 30,057 | new |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | answer index | 3.4% | 1,029 of 30,057 | new |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | live retrieval | 3.3% | 1,004 of 30,057 | new |
| FacebookBot | Meta | training | 3.1% | 938 of 30,057 | new |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | live retrieval | 3.0% | 898 of 30,057 | new | |
| YouBot | You.com | answer index | 3.0% | 897 of 30,057 | new |
| GoogleOther | training | 2.9% | 858 of 30,057 | new | |
| Timpibot | Timpi | training | 2.8% | 827 of 30,057 | new |
| ImagesiftBot | ImageSift (Hive) | training | 2.7% | 821 of 30,057 | new |
| Scrapy | Zyte (open-source framework) | training | 2.4% | 726 of 30,057 | new |
| AI2Bot | Allen Institute for AI | training | 2.3% | 695 of 30,057 | new |
| MistralAI-Training | Mistral AI | training | 2.2% | 654 of 30,057 | new |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | answer index | 2.1% | 619 of 30,057 | new |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | Cohere | training | 2.0% | 611 of 30,057 | new |
| Meta-ExternalFetcher | Meta | live retrieval | 1.8% | 542 of 30,057 | new |
| PanguBot | Huawei | training | 1.7% | 515 of 30,057 | new |
| DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | live retrieval | 1.7% | 509 of 30,057 | new |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | live retrieval | 1.6% | 492 of 30,057 | new |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | live retrieval | 1.6% | 471 of 30,057 | new |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | answer index | 1.5% | 461 of 30,057 | new |
| MistralAI-User | Mistral AI | live retrieval | 1.5% | 455 of 30,057 | new |
| Kangaroo Bot | Kangaroo LLM | training | 1.5% | 447 of 30,057 | new |
| Meta-WebIndexer | Meta | answer index | 1.3% | 382 of 30,057 | new |
| Applebot | Apple | answer index | 1.2% | 360 of 30,057 | new |
| Amzn-SearchBot | Amazon | answer index | 0.8% | 255 of 30,057 | new |
| TikTokSpider | ByteDance | live retrieval | 0.8% | 251 of 30,057 | new |
| Amzn-User | Amazon | live retrieval | 0.7% | 201 of 30,057 | new |
| MistralAI-Index | Mistral AI | answer index | 0.4% | 106 of 30,057 | new |
| facebookexternalhit | Meta | live retrieval | 0.2% | 56 of 30,057 | new |
| Googlebot-News | answer index | 0.1% | 38 of 30,057 | new | |
| Bingbot | Microsoft | answer index | 0.1% | 36 of 30,057 | new |
| Meta-ExternalAds | Meta | training | 0.1% | 32 of 30,057 | new |
| msnbot | Microsoft | answer index | 0.1% | 19 of 30,057 | new |
| Googlebot | answer index | 0.1% | 18 of 30,057 | new | |
| OAI-AdsBot | OpenAI | live retrieval | 0.0% | 12 of 30,057 | 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, 2002-W04", 2002-01-27. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2002-W04Machine-readable: census totals, full corpus, crawler registry. Method: methodology.