Weekly report · 2002-W05

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,060 reachable domains for the week ending 2002-02-03. 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.

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30,060

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%	2,511 of 30,054	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	8.1%	2,433 of 30,054	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	7.9%	2,361 of 30,054	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	7.1%	2,126 of 30,054	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	6.2%	1,867 of 30,054	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	6.1%	1,834 of 30,054	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	6.1%	1,829 of 30,054	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	6.1%	1,826 of 30,054	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	5.8%	1,748 of 30,054	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	5.7%	1,722 of 30,054	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	5.6%	1,676 of 30,054	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	5.5%	1,662 of 30,054	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	5.4%	1,611 of 30,054	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.5%	1,054 of 30,054	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.4%	1,027 of 30,054	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.3%	1,003 of 30,054	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.1%	939 of 30,054	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	3.0%	896 of 30,054	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	3.0%	890 of 30,054	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	2.8%	850 of 30,054	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.8%	828 of 30,054	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.7%	822 of 30,054	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.4%	726 of 30,054	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.3%	696 of 30,054	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	2.1%	646 of 30,054	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.1%	618 of 30,054	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	611 of 30,054	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.8%	541 of 30,054	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.7%	515 of 30,054	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	510 of 30,054	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.6%	491 of 30,054	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.6%	470 of 30,054	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.5%	460 of 30,054	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.5%	454 of 30,054	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	448 of 30,054	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.3%	382 of 30,054	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.2%	359 of 30,054	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.8%	254 of 30,054	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	251 of 30,054	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.7%	200 of 30,054	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.3%	105 of 30,054	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	56 of 30,054	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	38 of 30,054	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	36 of 30,054	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	32 of 30,054	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	19 of 30,054	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	18 of 30,054	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	12 of 30,054	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-W05", 2002-02-03. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2002-W05

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