Weekly report · 2013-W47

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,306 reachable domains for the week ending 2013-11-24. 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.

← 2013-W46 · 2013-W48 →

30,306

domains measured

block an answer engine

19%

refuse AI agents at the edge

13%

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	7.9%	2,408 of 30,307	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	7.8%	2,350 of 30,307	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	7.3%	2,213 of 30,307	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	6.5%	1,976 of 30,307	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	5.6%	1,697 of 30,307	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	5.6%	1,686 of 30,307	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	5.4%	1,651 of 30,307	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	5.4%	1,626 of 30,307	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.2%	1,263 of 30,307	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.1%	1,240 of 30,307	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	3.9%	1,172 of 30,307	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	3.8%	1,154 of 30,307	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.8%	1,145 of 30,307	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	3.7%	1,124 of 30,307	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.5%	1,057 of 30,307	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.5%	1,046 of 30,307	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.1%	954 of 30,307	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	2.9%	877 of 30,307	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.7%	826 of 30,307	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	806 of 30,307	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.4%	721 of 30,307	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.2%	660 of 30,307	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.1%	645 of 30,307	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	598 of 30,307	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.8%	535 of 30,307	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	508 of 30,307	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.6%	496 of 30,307	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.6%	472 of 30,307	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.6%	470 of 30,307	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	452 of 30,307	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.5%	444 of 30,307	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.4%	425 of 30,307	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	1.2%	366 of 30,307	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.2%	354 of 30,307	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	1.1%	348 of 30,307	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.1%	335 of 30,307	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	256 of 30,307	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.7%	215 of 30,307	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.5%	143 of 30,307	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	0.3%	78 of 30,307	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.2%	68 of 30,307	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	54 of 30,307	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	39 of 30,307	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	38 of 30,307	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	26 of 30,307	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	20 of 30,307	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	17 of 30,307	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	6 of 30,307	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, 2013-W47", 2013-11-24. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2013-W47

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