Publishing platform segment

AI crawler access on drupal sites

207 of the 867 sites measured in this segment refuse a request from an identified AI user agent at the edge, 24% of the segment, against 4% whose robots.txt disallows an answer engine at the site root. The block that costs these sites citations is not the one written in the file. That answer-engine rate is 2.8 points below the corpus rate of 6%, which is itself measured across 30,353 domains.

Mean AI access score across those 867 sites is 74.9 of 100, 50 of them publish an llms.txt (6%), and 275 publish structured data an answer engine can parse (32%).

867
sites measured
74.9
mean AI access score of 867
4%
block an answer engine (31 of 867)
6%
publish llms.txt (50 of 867)

Block rate by crawler, inside this segment robots.txt at the site root

CrawlerOperatorContent used forBlock rateBlockingMeasured
Bytespider ByteDance training 7.3% 63 867
GPTBot OpenAI training 6.9% 60 867
CCBot Common Crawl Foundation archive 6.5% 56 867
ClaudeBot Anthropic training 6.1% 53 867
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta training 5.8% 50 867
Applebot-Extended Apple training 5.8% 50 867
Google-Extended Google training 5.7% 49 867
Amazonbot Amazon training 5.4% 47 867
SemrushBot-OCOB Semrush training 3.5% 30 867
anthropic-ai Anthropic training 2.4% 21 867
ChatGPT-User OpenAI live retrieval 2.3% 20 867
cohere-ai Cohere live retrieval 2.2% 19 867
PerplexityBot Perplexity answer index 2.1% 18 867
omgilibot Webz.io training 2.1% 18 867
omgili Webz.io training 2.0% 17 867
Diffbot Diffbot training 2.0% 17 867
FacebookBot Meta training 1.8% 16 867
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI answer index 1.6% 14 867
YouBot You.com answer index 1.5% 13 867
Scrapy Zyte (open-source framework) training 1.5% 13 867
ImagesiftBot ImageSift (Hive) training 1.4% 12 867
Timpibot Timpi training 1.3% 11 867
Applebot Apple answer index 1.2% 10 867
AI2Bot Allen Institute for AI training 1.2% 10 867
cohere-training-data-crawler Cohere training 1.0% 9 867
Meta-WebIndexer Meta answer index 0.9% 8 867
PanguBot Huawei training 0.8% 7 867
Meta-ExternalFetcher Meta live retrieval 0.8% 7 867
Kangaroo Bot Kangaroo LLM training 0.8% 7 867
TikTokSpider ByteDance live retrieval 0.7% 6 867
GoogleOther Google training 0.7% 6 867
facebookexternalhit Meta live retrieval 0.7% 6 867
DuckAssistBot DuckDuckGo live retrieval 0.7% 6 867
Claude-User Anthropic live retrieval 0.7% 6 867
Claude-SearchBot Anthropic answer index 0.7% 6 867
Google-CloudVertexBot Google live retrieval 0.6% 5 867
Perplexity-User Perplexity live retrieval 0.5% 4 867
MistralAI-User Mistral AI live retrieval 0.5% 4 867
Amzn-SearchBot Amazon answer index 0.5% 4 867
Bingbot Microsoft answer index 0.3% 3 867
Amzn-User Amazon live retrieval 0.2% 2 867
OAI-AdsBot OpenAI live retrieval 0.1% 1 867
msnbot Microsoft answer index 0.0% 0 867
MistralAI-Training Mistral AI training 0.0% 0 867
MistralAI-Index Mistral AI answer index 0.0% 0 867
Meta-ExternalAds Meta training 0.0% 0 867
Googlebot-News Google answer index 0.0% 0 867
Googlebot Google answer index 0.0% 0 867

Block rate is the share of this segment's domains holding a policy record for that agent whose robots.txt disallows it at the site root, shown with its numerator and denominator. Denominators differ between agents because a record only exists once a domain has been measured for it. A domain serving no robots.txt counts as allowing everything, which is what the standard specifies.

Most accessible

DomainScoreEngines blockedllms.txt
1 sahistory.org.za 99 0 yes
2 wri.org 98 0 yes
3 posit.co 97 0 yes
4 skynettechnologies.com 97 0 yes
5 gameinformer.com 96 0 yes
6 belvedere.at 96 0 yes
7 mtholyoke.edu 95 0 no
8 starwoodhotels.com 94 0 yes
9 mindbodyonline.com 94 0 no
10 acquia.com 94 0 yes
11 monsido.com 94 0 yes
12 purple.com 94 0 yes
13 nea.org 94 0 no
14 flexera.com 93 0 no
15 tpg.com.au 93 0 no

Highest AI access scores among the 867 sites measured in this segment.

Least accessible

DomainScoreEngines blockedllms.txt
1 hhmi.org 45 0 no
2 flgov.com 47 0 no
3 icj-cij.org 47 0 no
4 penguinrandomhouse.ca 48 0 no
5 myplate.gov 49 0 no
6 taxpolicycenter.org 50 0 no
7 nic.aero 50 0 no
8 fraserinstitute.org 51 6 no
9 colorado.gov 51 0 no
10 anses.fr 53 0 no
11 uscis.gov 53 0 no
12 safekids.org 53 0 no
13 nationalgrid.com 54 0 no
14 gites-de-france.com 54 0 no
15 usdoj.gov 54 0 no

Lowest AI access scores among the same 867 sites.

Compare with the rest of the grouping publishing platform segments

The largest 10 other segments in this grouping, ordered by size. The share beside each is that segment's own answer-engine block rate over its own count. Full table on the segments index.

What this segment does not tell you read this before citing it

Platform detection relies on a generator meta tag, so coverage is partial and skewed. A site that strips the tag, or a system that never writes one, is invisible here. These rows therefore over-represent platforms that advertise themselves and say nothing at all about the ones that do not.

Measure your own domain

The audit that produced every number on this page runs on any domain in about six seconds: robots.txt resolved for 48 agents, then live requests sent as four of them to see whether the edge agrees with the file.