Weekly report · 2017-W16

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,463 reachable domains for the week ending 2017-04-23. 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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30,463

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	11.3%	3,436 of 30,461	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	11.1%	3,375 of 30,461	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	10.7%	3,252 of 30,461	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	9.9%	3,018 of 30,461	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	8.9%	2,723 of 30,461	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	8.9%	2,720 of 30,461	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	8.9%	2,714 of 30,461	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	8.7%	2,652 of 30,461	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.2%	1,268 of 30,461	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.1%	1,259 of 30,461	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	3.8%	1,170 of 30,461	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	3.8%	1,151 of 30,461	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	3.8%	1,144 of 30,461	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.7%	1,131 of 30,461	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.6%	1,092 of 30,461	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.6%	1,089 of 30,461	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.2%	983 of 30,461	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	2.9%	881 of 30,461	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.7%	834 of 30,461	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	832 of 30,461	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.4%	723 of 30,461	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.2%	685 of 30,461	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.2%	683 of 30,461	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	598 of 30,461	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	527 of 30,461	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.7%	526 of 30,461	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.7%	514 of 30,461	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.6%	479 of 30,461	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.5%	470 of 30,461	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	459 of 30,461	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.5%	444 of 30,461	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.4%	425 of 30,461	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.1%	349 of 30,461	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	1.1%	349 of 30,461	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.1%	347 of 30,461	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	1.1%	331 of 30,461	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	255 of 30,461	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.7%	216 of 30,461	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.4%	126 of 30,461	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.2%	69 of 30,461	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	58 of 30,461	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	0.2%	57 of 30,461	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	40 of 30,461	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	39 of 30,461	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	27 of 30,461	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	20 of 30,461	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	16 of 30,461	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	3 of 30,461	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, 2017-W16", 2017-04-23. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2017-W16

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