Weekly report · 2012-W49

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,064 reachable domains for the week ending 2012-12-09. 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.

← 2012-W48 · 2012-W50 →

30,064

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	6.9%	2,067 of 30,061	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	6.8%	2,034 of 30,061	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	6.3%	1,903 of 30,061	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	5.5%	1,668 of 30,061	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	4.6%	1,368 of 30,061	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	4.5%	1,365 of 30,061	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	4.5%	1,343 of 30,061	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	4.4%	1,309 of 30,061	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.3%	1,282 of 30,061	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.2%	1,266 of 30,061	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	3.9%	1,184 of 30,061	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	3.9%	1,179 of 30,061	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	3.8%	1,151 of 30,061	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.7%	1,110 of 30,061	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.5%	1,055 of 30,061	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.5%	1,038 of 30,061	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.2%	956 of 30,061	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	2.9%	879 of 30,061	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.7%	824 of 30,061	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	810 of 30,061	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.4%	723 of 30,061	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.2%	664 of 30,061	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.1%	626 of 30,061	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	596 of 30,061	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.8%	535 of 30,061	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	497 of 30,061	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.6%	489 of 30,061	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.6%	471 of 30,061	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.5%	465 of 30,061	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	447 of 30,061	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.5%	444 of 30,061	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.4%	430 of 30,061	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	1.3%	382 of 30,061	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	1.2%	352 of 30,061	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.2%	348 of 30,061	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.1%	335 of 30,061	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	246 of 30,061	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.7%	216 of 30,061	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.5%	149 of 30,061	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	0.3%	104 of 30,061	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.2%	71 of 30,061	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	53 of 30,061	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	37 of 30,061	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	37 of 30,061	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	22 of 30,061	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	21 of 30,061	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	16 of 30,061	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	9 of 30,061	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, 2012-W49", 2012-12-09. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2012-W49

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