Weekly report · 2026-W30
The state of AI crawling
Measured on 30,213 reachable domains for the week ending 2026-07-26. 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.
30,213
domains measured
7%
block an answer engine
19%
refuse AI agents at the edge
14%
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 | 7.1% | 2,144 of 30,211 | new |
| CCBot | Common Crawl Foundation | archive | 6.8% | 2,062 of 30,211 | new |
| Bytespider | ByteDance | training | 6.5% | 1,955 of 30,211 | new |
| ClaudeBot | Anthropic | training | 5.7% | 1,737 of 30,211 | new |
| Meta-ExternalAgent | Meta | training | 4.7% | 1,431 of 30,211 | new |
| Amazonbot | Amazon | training | 4.7% | 1,411 of 30,211 | new |
| Google-Extended | training | 4.6% | 1,384 of 30,211 | new | |
| Applebot-Extended | Apple | training | 4.6% | 1,375 of 30,211 | new |
| anthropic-ai | Anthropic | training | 4.4% | 1,318 of 30,211 | new |
| omgilibot | Webz.io | training | 4.3% | 1,288 of 30,211 | new |
| Diffbot | Diffbot | training | 4.0% | 1,223 of 30,211 | new |
| cohere-ai | Cohere | live retrieval | 4.0% | 1,221 of 30,211 | new |
| omgili | Webz.io | training | 3.9% | 1,173 of 30,211 | new |
| SemrushBot-OCOB | Semrush | training | 3.7% | 1,130 of 30,211 | new |
| PerplexityBot | Perplexity | answer index | 3.5% | 1,052 of 30,211 | new |
| ChatGPT-User | OpenAI | live retrieval | 3.5% | 1,049 of 30,211 | new |
| FacebookBot | Meta | training | 3.2% | 976 of 30,211 | new |
| YouBot | You.com | answer index | 3.0% | 896 of 30,211 | new |
| ImagesiftBot | ImageSift (Hive) | training | 2.8% | 843 of 30,211 | new |
| Timpibot | Timpi | training | 2.7% | 830 of 30,211 | new |
| Scrapy | Zyte (open-source framework) | training | 2.5% | 743 of 30,211 | new |
| AI2Bot | Allen Institute for AI | training | 2.3% | 701 of 30,211 | new |
| OAI-SearchBot | OpenAI | answer index | 2.1% | 649 of 30,211 | new |
| cohere-training-data-crawler | Cohere | training | 2.0% | 618 of 30,211 | new |
| Meta-ExternalFetcher | Meta | live retrieval | 1.8% | 553 of 30,211 | new |
| DuckAssistBot | DuckDuckGo | live retrieval | 1.7% | 522 of 30,211 | new |
| PanguBot | Huawei | training | 1.7% | 512 of 30,211 | new |
| Claude-User | Anthropic | live retrieval | 1.6% | 496 of 30,211 | new |
| Claude-SearchBot | Anthropic | answer index | 1.6% | 484 of 30,211 | new |
| Perplexity-User | Perplexity | live retrieval | 1.5% | 468 of 30,211 | new |
| Kangaroo Bot | Kangaroo LLM | training | 1.5% | 464 of 30,211 | new |
| MistralAI-User | Mistral AI | live retrieval | 1.5% | 451 of 30,211 | new |
| Google-CloudVertexBot | live retrieval | 1.4% | 422 of 30,211 | new | |
| GoogleOther | training | 1.3% | 383 of 30,211 | new | |
| Meta-WebIndexer | Meta | answer index | 1.2% | 359 of 30,211 | new |
| Applebot | Apple | answer index | 1.1% | 342 of 30,211 | new |
| TikTokSpider | ByteDance | live retrieval | 0.8% | 255 of 30,211 | new |
| Amzn-SearchBot | Amazon | answer index | 0.8% | 240 of 30,211 | new |
| Amzn-User | Amazon | live retrieval | 0.6% | 171 of 30,211 | new |
| MistralAI-Training | Mistral AI | training | 0.5% | 145 of 30,211 | new |
| MistralAI-Index | Mistral AI | answer index | 0.3% | 85 of 30,211 | new |
| facebookexternalhit | Meta | live retrieval | 0.2% | 54 of 30,211 | new |
| Bingbot | Microsoft | answer index | 0.1% | 41 of 30,211 | new |
| Googlebot-News | answer index | 0.1% | 36 of 30,211 | new | |
| Meta-ExternalAds | Meta | training | 0.1% | 22 of 30,211 | new |
| msnbot | Microsoft | answer index | 0.1% | 20 of 30,211 | new |
| Googlebot | answer index | 0.1% | 16 of 30,211 | new | |
| OAI-AdsBot | OpenAI | live retrieval | 0.0% | 11 of 30,211 | 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, 2026-W30", 2026-07-26. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2026-W30Machine-readable: census totals, full corpus, crawler registry. Method: methodology.