Weekly report · 2015-W49

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,367 reachable domains for the week ending 2015-12-06. 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.

← 2015-W48 · 2015-W50 →

30,367

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	9.7%	2,947 of 30,365	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	9.5%	2,892 of 30,365	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	9.1%	2,756 of 30,365	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	8.3%	2,520 of 30,365	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	7.4%	2,249 of 30,365	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	7.3%	2,228 of 30,365	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	7.3%	2,216 of 30,365	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	7.2%	2,178 of 30,365	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.1%	1,253 of 30,365	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.1%	1,232 of 30,365	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	3.8%	1,167 of 30,365	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	3.8%	1,142 of 30,365	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.7%	1,129 of 30,365	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	3.7%	1,118 of 30,365	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.5%	1,064 of 30,365	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.5%	1,059 of 30,365	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.1%	956 of 30,365	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	2.9%	876 of 30,365	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.7%	824 of 30,365	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	816 of 30,365	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.4%	726 of 30,365	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.2%	671 of 30,365	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.2%	666 of 30,365	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	600 of 30,365	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.8%	533 of 30,365	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	513 of 30,365	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.6%	500 of 30,365	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.6%	472 of 30,365	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.5%	469 of 30,365	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	449 of 30,365	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.4%	439 of 30,365	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.4%	422 of 30,365	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	1.2%	362 of 30,365	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.2%	353 of 30,365	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	1.1%	341 of 30,365	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.1%	333 of 30,365	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	255 of 30,365	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.7%	211 of 30,365	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.5%	138 of 30,365	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.2%	73 of 30,365	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	0.2%	67 of 30,365	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	59 of 30,365	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	39 of 30,365	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	38 of 30,365	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	27 of 30,365	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	19 of 30,365	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	16 of 30,365	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	5 of 30,365	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-W49", 2015-12-06. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2015-W49

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