Weekly report · 2017-W45

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,481 reachable domains for the week ending 2017-11-12. 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.

← 2017-W44 · 2017-W46 →

30,481

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	11.4%	3,462 of 30,479	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	11.2%	3,399 of 30,479	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	10.7%	3,275 of 30,479	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	10.0%	3,043 of 30,479	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	9.0%	2,741 of 30,479	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	9.0%	2,740 of 30,479	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	9.0%	2,735 of 30,479	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	8.8%	2,668 of 30,479	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.2%	1,278 of 30,479	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.2%	1,268 of 30,479	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	3.9%	1,174 of 30,479	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	3.8%	1,153 of 30,479	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	3.8%	1,151 of 30,479	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.7%	1,138 of 30,479	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.6%	1,107 of 30,479	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.6%	1,101 of 30,479	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.3%	991 of 30,479	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	2.9%	875 of 30,479	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.7%	836 of 30,479	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	835 of 30,479	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.3%	715 of 30,479	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.3%	689 of 30,479	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.3%	686 of 30,479	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	598 of 30,479	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	531 of 30,479	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.7%	530 of 30,479	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.7%	519 of 30,479	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.6%	484 of 30,479	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.6%	477 of 30,479	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	461 of 30,479	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.5%	449 of 30,479	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.4%	428 of 30,479	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.2%	355 of 30,479	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	1.2%	354 of 30,479	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.1%	350 of 30,479	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	1.1%	335 of 30,479	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	256 of 30,479	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.7%	222 of 30,479	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.4%	130 of 30,479	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.2%	69 of 30,479	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	57 of 30,479	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	0.2%	57 of 30,479	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	41 of 30,479	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	38 of 30,479	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	27 of 30,479	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	20 of 30,479	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	16 of 30,479	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	3 of 30,479	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-W45", 2017-11-12. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2017-W45

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