Weekly report · 2004-W40

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,493 reachable domains for the week ending 2004-10-03. 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.

← 2004-W39 · 2004-W41 →

30,493

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	7.1%	2,177 of 30,490	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	6.8%	2,071 of 30,490	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	6.5%	1,992 of 30,490	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	5.8%	1,776 of 30,490	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	4.8%	1,470 of 30,490	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	4.8%	1,457 of 30,490	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	4.8%	1,456 of 30,490	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	4.7%	1,443 of 30,490	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.4%	1,353 of 30,490	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.4%	1,348 of 30,490	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	4.2%	1,279 of 30,490	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	4.2%	1,267 of 30,490	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	4.1%	1,236 of 30,490	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.7%	1,123 of 30,490	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.4%	1,040 of 30,490	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.4%	1,040 of 30,490	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.2%	967 of 30,490	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	3.0%	901 of 30,490	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.8%	843 of 30,490	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	831 of 30,490	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.4%	728 of 30,490	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.3%	706 of 30,490	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.1%	633 of 30,490	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	620 of 30,490	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.8%	534 of 30,490	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	527 of 30,490	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.7%	519 of 30,490	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.6%	502 of 30,490	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.6%	481 of 30,490	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	1.6%	481 of 30,490	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.6%	478 of 30,490	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.5%	468 of 30,490	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	454 of 30,490	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	1.4%	439 of 30,490	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.2%	363 of 30,490	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.2%	354 of 30,490	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.9%	261 of 30,490	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.8%	243 of 30,490	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	0.7%	208 of 30,490	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.6%	182 of 30,490	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.3%	93 of 30,490	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	51 of 30,490	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	38 of 30,490	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	37 of 30,490	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	24 of 30,490	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	19 of 30,490	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	16 of 30,490	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	12 of 30,490	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, 2004-W40", 2004-10-03. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2004-W40

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