Weekly report · 2007-W37
The state of AI crawling
Measured on 30,283 reachable domains for the week ending 2007-09-16. 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.
30,283
domains measured
7%
block an answer engine
19%
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% | 2,161 of 30,281 | new |
| CCBot | Common Crawl Foundation | archive | 6.8% | 2,059 of 30,281 | new |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | training | 6.5% | 1,968 of 30,281 | new |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | training | 5.8% | 1,745 of 30,281 | new |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | training | 4.7% | 1,435 of 30,281 | new |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | training | 4.7% | 1,418 of 30,281 | new |
| Google-Extended | training | 4.6% | 1,400 of 30,281 | new | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | training | 4.6% | 1,394 of 30,281 | new |
| anthropic-ai | Anthropic | training | 4.4% | 1,334 of 30,281 | new |
| omgilibot | Webz.io | training | 4.3% | 1,309 of 30,281 | new |
| Diffbot | Diffbot | training | 4.1% | 1,239 of 30,281 | new |
| cohere-ai | Cohere | live retrieval | 4.1% | 1,231 of 30,281 | new |
| omgili | Webz.io | training | 3.9% | 1,195 of 30,281 | new |
| SemrushBot-OCOB | Semrush | training | 3.7% | 1,125 of 30,281 | new |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | answer index | 3.5% | 1,066 of 30,281 | new |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | live retrieval | 3.5% | 1,062 of 30,281 | new |
| FacebookBot | Meta | training | 3.2% | 979 of 30,281 | new |
| YouBot | You.com | answer index | 3.0% | 907 of 30,281 | new |
| ImagesiftBot | ImageSift (Hive) | training | 2.8% | 845 of 30,281 | new |
| Timpibot | Timpi | training | 2.7% | 832 of 30,281 | new |
| Scrapy | Zyte (open-source framework) | training | 2.4% | 739 of 30,281 | new |
| AI2Bot | Allen Institute for AI | training | 2.3% | 703 of 30,281 | new |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | answer index | 2.1% | 651 of 30,281 | new |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | Cohere | training | 2.1% | 621 of 30,281 | new |
| Meta-ExternalFetcher | Meta | live retrieval | 1.8% | 542 of 30,281 | new |
| DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | live retrieval | 1.7% | 529 of 30,281 | new |
| PanguBot | Huawei | training | 1.7% | 517 of 30,281 | new |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | live retrieval | 1.6% | 499 of 30,281 | new |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | answer index | 1.6% | 490 of 30,281 | new |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | live retrieval | 1.6% | 475 of 30,281 | new |
| MistralAI-User | Mistral AI | live retrieval | 1.5% | 462 of 30,281 | new |
| Kangaroo Bot | Kangaroo LLM | training | 1.5% | 460 of 30,281 | new |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | live retrieval | 1.4% | 433 of 30,281 | new | |
| GoogleOther | training | 1.3% | 392 of 30,281 | new | |
| Meta-WebIndexer | Meta | answer index | 1.2% | 361 of 30,281 | new |
| Applebot | Apple | answer index | 1.1% | 342 of 30,281 | new |
| TikTokSpider | ByteDance | live retrieval | 0.9% | 259 of 30,281 | new |
| Amzn-SearchBot | Amazon | answer index | 0.8% | 244 of 30,281 | new |
| Amzn-User | Amazon | live retrieval | 0.6% | 176 of 30,281 | new |
| MistralAI-Training | Mistral AI | training | 0.5% | 156 of 30,281 | new |
| MistralAI-Index | Mistral AI | answer index | 0.3% | 90 of 30,281 | new |
| facebookexternalhit | Meta | live retrieval | 0.2% | 56 of 30,281 | new |
| Bingbot | Microsoft | answer index | 0.1% | 39 of 30,281 | new |
| Googlebot-News | answer index | 0.1% | 36 of 30,281 | new | |
| Meta-ExternalAds | Meta | training | 0.1% | 21 of 30,281 | new |
| msnbot | Microsoft | answer index | 0.1% | 20 of 30,281 | new |
| Googlebot | answer index | 0.1% | 16 of 30,281 | new | |
| OAI-AdsBot | OpenAI | live retrieval | 0.0% | 11 of 30,281 | 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, 2007-W37", 2007-09-16. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2007-W37Machine-readable: census totals, full corpus, crawler registry. Method: methodology.