Weekly report · 2006-W17

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,399 reachable domains for the week ending 2006-04-30. 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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30,399

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%	2,152 of 30,399	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	6.7%	2,042 of 30,399	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	6.5%	1,965 of 30,399	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	5.7%	1,747 of 30,399	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	4.7%	1,420 of 30,399	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	4.6%	1,409 of 30,399	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	4.6%	1,396 of 30,399	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	4.6%	1,387 of 30,399	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.4%	1,331 of 30,399	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.3%	1,315 of 30,399	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	4.1%	1,236 of 30,399	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	4.1%	1,233 of 30,399	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	4.0%	1,202 of 30,399	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.7%	1,129 of 30,399	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.5%	1,058 of 30,399	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.5%	1,057 of 30,399	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.2%	973 of 30,399	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	3.0%	906 of 30,399	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.8%	841 of 30,399	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	831 of 30,399	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.4%	732 of 30,399	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.3%	702 of 30,399	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.1%	644 of 30,399	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	620 of 30,399	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.7%	526 of 30,399	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	524 of 30,399	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.7%	517 of 30,399	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.6%	501 of 30,399	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.6%	484 of 30,399	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.6%	476 of 30,399	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.5%	462 of 30,399	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	453 of 30,399	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	1.4%	428 of 30,399	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	1.3%	398 of 30,399	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.2%	362 of 30,399	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.1%	335 of 30,399	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	256 of 30,399	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.8%	241 of 30,399	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.6%	178 of 30,399	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	0.5%	161 of 30,399	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.3%	92 of 30,399	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	56 of 30,399	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	38 of 30,399	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	37 of 30,399	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	21 of 30,399	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	20 of 30,399	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	16 of 30,399	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	11 of 30,399	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, 2006-W17", 2006-04-30. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2006-W17

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