Weekly report · 2024-W36

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,601 reachable domains for the week ending 2024-09-08. 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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30,601

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%	3,449 of 30,594	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	11.0%	3,379 of 30,594	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	10.6%	3,240 of 30,594	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	9.9%	3,022 of 30,594	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	8.9%	2,725 of 30,594	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	8.9%	2,721 of 30,594	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	8.8%	2,700 of 30,594	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	8.6%	2,646 of 30,594	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.1%	1,261 of 30,594	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.1%	1,242 of 30,594	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	3.7%	1,142 of 30,594	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	3.7%	1,131 of 30,594	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.7%	1,130 of 30,594	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	3.7%	1,121 of 30,594	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.6%	1,089 of 30,594	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.5%	1,084 of 30,594	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.2%	974 of 30,594	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	2.7%	841 of 30,594	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.7%	824 of 30,594	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.7%	822 of 30,594	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.2%	687 of 30,594	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.2%	670 of 30,594	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.2%	667 of 30,594	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	1.9%	589 of 30,594	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	519 of 30,594	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.7%	515 of 30,594	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.7%	511 of 30,594	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.6%	476 of 30,594	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.5%	461 of 30,594	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	455 of 30,594	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.4%	440 of 30,594	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.3%	413 of 30,594	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.2%	358 of 30,594	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	1.1%	349 of 30,594	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.1%	333 of 30,594	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	1.0%	316 of 30,594	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	244 of 30,594	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.7%	206 of 30,594	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.4%	116 of 30,594	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.2%	68 of 30,594	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	59 of 30,594	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	0.2%	54 of 30,594	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	45 of 30,594	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	40 of 30,594	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	26 of 30,594	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	19 of 30,594	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	16 of 30,594	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	2 of 30,594	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, 2024-W36", 2024-09-08. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2024-W36

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