Weekly report · 2002-W17

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,039 reachable domains for the week ending 2002-04-28. 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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30,039

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	8.2%	2,466 of 30,037	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	7.9%	2,384 of 30,037	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	7.7%	2,314 of 30,037	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	6.9%	2,081 of 30,037	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	6.0%	1,817 of 30,037	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	5.9%	1,786 of 30,037	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	5.9%	1,781 of 30,037	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	5.9%	1,781 of 30,037	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	5.6%	1,696 of 30,037	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	5.6%	1,675 of 30,037	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	5.4%	1,628 of 30,037	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	5.4%	1,611 of 30,037	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	5.2%	1,561 of 30,037	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.5%	1,056 of 30,037	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.4%	1,022 of 30,037	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.3%	999 of 30,037	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.1%	940 of 30,037	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	3.0%	894 of 30,037	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	2.8%	841 of 30,037	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	826 of 30,037	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.7%	822 of 30,037	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	2.7%	801 of 30,037	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.4%	726 of 30,037	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.3%	695 of 30,037	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.1%	618 of 30,037	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	610 of 30,037	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	2.0%	595 of 30,037	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.8%	538 of 30,037	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.7%	514 of 30,037	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	511 of 30,037	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.6%	490 of 30,037	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.6%	469 of 30,037	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.5%	459 of 30,037	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.5%	452 of 30,037	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	449 of 30,037	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.3%	380 of 30,037	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.2%	359 of 30,037	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.8%	253 of 30,037	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	251 of 30,037	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.7%	199 of 30,037	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.3%	102 of 30,037	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	56 of 30,037	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	37 of 30,037	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	35 of 30,037	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	32 of 30,037	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	18 of 30,037	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	17 of 30,037	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	12 of 30,037	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-W17", 2002-04-28. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2002-W17

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