Weekly report · 2026-W32

The state of AI crawling

Measured on 30,215 reachable domains for the week ending 2026-08-09. 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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30,215

domains measured

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%	2,153 of 30,222	new
CCBot	Common Crawl Foundation	archive	6.8%	2,070 of 30,222	new
Bytespider	ByteDance	training	6.5%	1,963 of 30,222	new
ClaudeBot	Anthropic	training	5.8%	1,746 of 30,222	new
Meta-ExternalAgent	Meta	training	4.8%	1,439 of 30,222	new
Amazonbot	Amazon	training	4.7%	1,419 of 30,222	new
Google-Extended	Google	training	4.6%	1,392 of 30,222	new
Applebot-Extended	Apple	training	4.6%	1,384 of 30,222	new
anthropic-ai	Anthropic	training	4.4%	1,326 of 30,222	new
omgilibot	Webz.io	training	4.3%	1,296 of 30,222	new
Diffbot	Diffbot	training	4.1%	1,231 of 30,222	new
cohere-ai	Cohere	live retrieval	4.1%	1,229 of 30,222	new
omgili	Webz.io	training	3.9%	1,180 of 30,222	new
SemrushBot-OCOB	Semrush	training	3.7%	1,130 of 30,222	new
PerplexityBot	Perplexity	answer index	3.5%	1,053 of 30,222	new
ChatGPT-User	OpenAI	live retrieval	3.5%	1,051 of 30,222	new
FacebookBot	Meta	training	3.3%	983 of 30,222	new
YouBot	You.com	answer index	3.0%	896 of 30,222	new
ImagesiftBot	ImageSift (Hive)	training	2.8%	850 of 30,222	new
Timpibot	Timpi	training	2.8%	836 of 30,222	new
Scrapy	Zyte (open-source framework)	training	2.5%	743 of 30,222	new
AI2Bot	Allen Institute for AI	training	2.3%	707 of 30,222	new
OAI-SearchBot	OpenAI	answer index	2.1%	649 of 30,222	new
cohere-training-data-crawler	Cohere	training	2.1%	624 of 30,222	new
Meta-ExternalFetcher	Meta	live retrieval	1.8%	554 of 30,222	new
DuckAssistBot	DuckDuckGo	live retrieval	1.7%	522 of 30,222	new
PanguBot	Huawei	training	1.7%	518 of 30,222	new
Claude-User	Anthropic	live retrieval	1.6%	497 of 30,222	new
Claude-SearchBot	Anthropic	answer index	1.6%	484 of 30,222	new
Perplexity-User	Perplexity	live retrieval	1.6%	469 of 30,222	new
Kangaroo Bot	Kangaroo LLM	training	1.5%	464 of 30,222	new
MistralAI-User	Mistral AI	live retrieval	1.5%	452 of 30,222	new
Google-CloudVertexBot	Google	live retrieval	1.4%	423 of 30,222	new
GoogleOther	Google	training	1.3%	384 of 30,222	new
Meta-WebIndexer	Meta	answer index	1.2%	359 of 30,222	new
Applebot	Apple	answer index	1.1%	342 of 30,222	new
TikTokSpider	ByteDance	live retrieval	0.8%	255 of 30,222	new
Amzn-SearchBot	Amazon	answer index	0.8%	240 of 30,222	new
Amzn-User	Amazon	live retrieval	0.6%	172 of 30,222	new
MistralAI-Training	Mistral AI	training	0.5%	146 of 30,222	new
MistralAI-Index	Mistral AI	answer index	0.3%	85 of 30,222	new
facebookexternalhit	Meta	live retrieval	0.2%	54 of 30,222	new
Bingbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	41 of 30,222	new
Googlebot-News	Google	answer index	0.1%	36 of 30,222	new
Meta-ExternalAds	Meta	training	0.1%	22 of 30,222	new
msnbot	Microsoft	answer index	0.1%	20 of 30,222	new
Googlebot	Google	answer index	0.1%	16 of 30,222	new
OAI-AdsBot	OpenAI	live retrieval	0.0%	11 of 30,222	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-W32", 2026-08-09. https://crawlcensus.com/report/2026-W32

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