Weekly report · 2015-W28

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,350 reachable domains for the week ending 2015-07-12. 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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30,350

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	9.3%	2,833 of 30,345	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	9.1%	2,773 of 30,345	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	8.7%	2,638 of 30,345	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	7.9%	2,406 of 30,345	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	7.0%	2,130 of 30,345	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	7.0%	2,115 of 30,345	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	6.9%	2,098 of 30,345	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	6.8%	2,061 of 30,345	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.1%	1,257 of 30,345	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.1%	1,233 of 30,345	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	3.8%	1,168 of 30,345	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	3.8%	1,143 of 30,345	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.7%	1,130 of 30,345	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	3.7%	1,119 of 30,345	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.5%	1,067 of 30,345	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.5%	1,060 of 30,345	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.2%	957 of 30,345	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	2.9%	878 of 30,345	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.7%	827 of 30,345	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	816 of 30,345	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.4%	725 of 30,345	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.2%	669 of 30,345	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.2%	666 of 30,345	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	599 of 30,345	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.8%	536 of 30,345	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	512 of 30,345	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.6%	498 of 30,345	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.6%	471 of 30,345	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.5%	470 of 30,345	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	448 of 30,345	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.4%	440 of 30,345	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.4%	422 of 30,345	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	1.2%	361 of 30,345	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.2%	353 of 30,345	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	1.1%	339 of 30,345	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.1%	333 of 30,345	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	254 of 30,345	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.7%	211 of 30,345	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.5%	139 of 30,345	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.2%	73 of 30,345	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	0.2%	67 of 30,345	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	58 of 30,345	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	39 of 30,345	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	38 of 30,345	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	26 of 30,345	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	19 of 30,345	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	16 of 30,345	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	5 of 30,345	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, 2015-W28", 2015-07-12. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2015-W28

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