Weekly report · 2023-W42

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,528 reachable domains for the week ending 2023-10-22. 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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30,528

domains measured

block an answer engine

18%

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%	3,475 of 30,524	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	11.2%	3,412 of 30,524	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	10.7%	3,276 of 30,524	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	10.0%	3,051 of 30,524	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	9.0%	2,749 of 30,524	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	9.0%	2,746 of 30,524	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	9.0%	2,736 of 30,524	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	8.7%	2,668 of 30,524	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.2%	1,287 of 30,524	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.2%	1,276 of 30,524	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	3.9%	1,179 of 30,524	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	3.8%	1,159 of 30,524	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.8%	1,152 of 30,524	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	3.8%	1,151 of 30,524	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.7%	1,115 of 30,524	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.6%	1,109 of 30,524	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.2%	992 of 30,524	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	2.8%	867 of 30,524	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.8%	844 of 30,524	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	836 of 30,524	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.3%	714 of 30,524	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.3%	699 of 30,524	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.2%	685 of 30,524	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.0%	600 of 30,524	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.8%	536 of 30,524	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.7%	531 of 30,524	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.7%	521 of 30,524	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.6%	486 of 30,524	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.6%	477 of 30,524	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	462 of 30,524	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.5%	453 of 30,524	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.4%	431 of 30,524	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.2%	367 of 30,524	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	1.2%	360 of 30,524	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.1%	348 of 30,524	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	1.1%	338 of 30,524	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	256 of 30,524	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.7%	215 of 30,524	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.4%	128 of 30,524	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.2%	67 of 30,524	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	58 of 30,524	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	0.2%	55 of 30,524	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	44 of 30,524	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	40 of 30,524	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	24 of 30,524	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	20 of 30,524	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	16 of 30,524	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	2 of 30,524	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, 2023-W42", 2023-10-22. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2023-W42

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