Weekly report · 2008-W28

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,191 reachable domains for the week ending 2008-07-13. 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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30,191

domains measured

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%	2,148 of 30,185	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	6.9%	2,070 of 30,185	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	6.5%	1,954 of 30,185	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	5.8%	1,746 of 30,185	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	4.7%	1,431 of 30,185	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	4.7%	1,414 of 30,185	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	4.6%	1,394 of 30,185	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	4.6%	1,381 of 30,185	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.4%	1,324 of 30,185	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.3%	1,292 of 30,185	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	4.1%	1,227 of 30,185	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	4.1%	1,226 of 30,185	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	3.9%	1,175 of 30,185	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.7%	1,126 of 30,185	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.5%	1,055 of 30,185	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.5%	1,054 of 30,185	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.3%	983 of 30,185	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	2.9%	890 of 30,185	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.8%	854 of 30,185	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.8%	835 of 30,185	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.5%	746 of 30,185	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.3%	707 of 30,185	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.2%	651 of 30,185	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.1%	623 of 30,185	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.8%	557 of 30,185	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	519 of 30,185	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.7%	519 of 30,185	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.7%	499 of 30,185	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.6%	485 of 30,185	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.6%	470 of 30,185	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	466 of 30,185	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.5%	447 of 30,185	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	1.4%	424 of 30,185	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	1.3%	384 of 30,185	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.2%	358 of 30,185	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.1%	343 of 30,185	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	255 of 30,185	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.8%	232 of 30,185	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.5%	166 of 30,185	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	0.5%	142 of 30,185	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.3%	81 of 30,185	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	54 of 30,185	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	40 of 30,185	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	36 of 30,185	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	22 of 30,185	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	21 of 30,185	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	16 of 30,185	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	11 of 30,185	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, 2008-W28", 2008-07-13. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2008-W28

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