Weekly report · 2010-W24

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,086 reachable domains for the week ending 2010-06-20. 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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30,086
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

CrawlerOperatorContent used forBlock rateSitesWeek on week
GPTBot OpenAI training 7.0% 2,110 of 30,083 new
CCBot Common Crawl Foundation archive 6.8% 2,046 of 30,083 new
Bytespider ByteDance training 6.4% 1,927 of 30,083 new
ClaudeBot Anthropic training 5.7% 1,724 of 30,083 new
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta training 4.7% 1,404 of 30,083 new
Amazonbot Amazon training 4.6% 1,389 of 30,083 new
Google-Extended Google training 4.5% 1,368 of 30,083 new
Applebot-Extended Apple training 4.5% 1,352 of 30,083 new
anthropic-ai Anthropic training 4.3% 1,305 of 30,083 new
omgilibot Webz.io training 4.2% 1,272 of 30,083 new
cohere-ai Cohere live retrieval 4.0% 1,206 of 30,083 new
Diffbot Diffbot training 4.0% 1,200 of 30,083 new
omgili Webz.io training 3.8% 1,158 of 30,083 new
SemrushBot-OCOB Semrush training 3.7% 1,114 of 30,083 new
PerplexityBot Perplexity answer index 3.5% 1,038 of 30,083 new
ChatGPT-User OpenAI live retrieval 3.4% 1,037 of 30,083 new
FacebookBot Meta training 3.2% 963 of 30,083 new
YouBot You.com answer index 2.9% 880 of 30,083 new
ImagesiftBot ImageSift (Hive) training 2.8% 843 of 30,083 new
Timpibot Timpi training 2.7% 818 of 30,083 new
Scrapy Zyte (open-source framework) training 2.5% 738 of 30,083 new
AI2Bot Allen Institute for AI training 2.3% 688 of 30,083 new
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI answer index 2.1% 634 of 30,083 new
cohere-training-data-crawler Cohere training 2.0% 607 of 30,083 new
Meta-ExternalFetcher Meta live retrieval 1.8% 547 of 30,083 new
DuckAssistBot DuckDuckGo live retrieval 1.7% 508 of 30,083 new
PanguBot Huawei training 1.7% 507 of 30,083 new
Claude-User Anthropic live retrieval 1.6% 484 of 30,083 new
Claude-SearchBot Anthropic answer index 1.6% 467 of 30,083 new
Kangaroo Bot Kangaroo LLM training 1.5% 459 of 30,083 new
Perplexity-User Perplexity live retrieval 1.5% 456 of 30,083 new
MistralAI-User Mistral AI live retrieval 1.4% 435 of 30,083 new
Google-CloudVertexBot Google live retrieval 1.4% 409 of 30,083 new
GoogleOther Google training 1.2% 371 of 30,083 new
Meta-WebIndexer Meta answer index 1.2% 356 of 30,083 new
Applebot Apple answer index 1.1% 334 of 30,083 new
TikTokSpider ByteDance live retrieval 0.8% 250 of 30,083 new
Amzn-SearchBot Amazon answer index 0.8% 226 of 30,083 new
Amzn-User Amazon live retrieval 0.5% 160 of 30,083 new
MistralAI-Training Mistral AI training 0.4% 128 of 30,083 new
MistralAI-Index Mistral AI answer index 0.2% 75 of 30,083 new
facebookexternalhit Meta live retrieval 0.2% 51 of 30,083 new
Bingbot Microsoft answer index 0.1% 38 of 30,083 new
Googlebot-News Google answer index 0.1% 37 of 30,083 new
Meta-ExternalAds Meta training 0.1% 22 of 30,083 new
msnbot Microsoft answer index 0.1% 21 of 30,083 new
Googlebot Google answer index 0.1% 18 of 30,083 new
OAI-AdsBot OpenAI live retrieval 0.0% 9 of 30,083 new

Trend share of measured sites

% of sites20151050% of sites08-2209-1110-02block an answer engineblock a training crawlerpublish llms.txt

Where the blocking is share blocking an answer engine, by top-level domain

bar chart.uk (n=445)16.4%.de (n=825)15.6%.fr (n=324)14.5%.jp (n=405)8.9%.com (n=14745)6.8%.br (n=362)6.4%.org (n=1666)5.5%.net (n=1301)4.2%.ru (n=1166)3.2%.in (n=313)2.9%.edu (n=473)2.1%.io (n=660)1.8%

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, 2010-W24", 2010-06-20. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2010-W24

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