Weekly report · 2003-W01

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,515 reachable domains for the week ending 2003-01-05. 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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30,515

domains measured

block an answer engine

20%

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	7.6%	2,308 of 30,513	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	7.2%	2,211 of 30,513	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	7.0%	2,127 of 30,513	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	6.2%	1,906 of 30,513	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	5.3%	1,622 of 30,513	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	5.3%	1,617 of 30,513	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	5.3%	1,610 of 30,513	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	5.2%	1,601 of 30,513	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.9%	1,504 of 30,513	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.9%	1,495 of 30,513	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	4.7%	1,440 of 30,513	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	4.7%	1,422 of 30,513	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	4.5%	1,380 of 30,513	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.6%	1,088 of 30,513	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.3%	1,022 of 30,513	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.3%	1,008 of 30,513	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.1%	936 of 30,513	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	2.9%	890 of 30,513	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.7%	825 of 30,513	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	822 of 30,513	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.4%	722 of 30,513	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.3%	702 of 30,513	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	2.1%	654 of 30,513	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.0%	623 of 30,513	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	615 of 30,513	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	2.0%	613 of 30,513	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.7%	530 of 30,513	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	522 of 30,513	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.7%	517 of 30,513	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.6%	502 of 30,513	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.6%	478 of 30,513	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.6%	476 of 30,513	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.5%	469 of 30,513	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	455 of 30,513	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	1.3%	401 of 30,513	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.2%	364 of 30,513	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.2%	356 of 30,513	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.9%	260 of 30,513	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.8%	250 of 30,513	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.6%	189 of 30,513	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.3%	98 of 30,513	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	50 of 30,513	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	37 of 30,513	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	33 of 30,513	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	26 of 30,513	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	17 of 30,513	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	17 of 30,513	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	13 of 30,513	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, 2003-W01", 2003-01-05. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2003-W01

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