Top-level domain segment

AI crawler access on .it domains

60 of the 270 domains measured in this segment refuse a request from an identified AI user agent at the edge, 22% of the segment, against 14% 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 twice the corpus rate of 7%, which is itself measured across 30,316 domains.

Mean AI access score across those 270 domains is 74.9 of 100, 16 of them publish an llms.txt (6%), and 150 publish structured data an answer engine can parse (56%).

270
domains measured
74.9
mean AI access score of 270
14%
block an answer engine (38 of 270)
6%
publish llms.txt (16 of 270)

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

CrawlerOperatorContent used forBlock rateBlockingMeasured
CCBot Common Crawl Foundation archive 17.4% 47 270
ClaudeBot Anthropic training 14.4% 39 270
GPTBot OpenAI training 13.0% 35 270
Bytespider ByteDance training 13.0% 35 270
Google-Extended Google training 12.2% 33 270
cohere-ai Cohere live retrieval 11.5% 31 270
Applebot-Extended Apple training 11.5% 31 270
PerplexityBot Perplexity answer index 10.7% 29 270
Diffbot Diffbot training 10.7% 29 270
Amazonbot Amazon training 10.7% 29 270
anthropic-ai Anthropic training 10.4% 28 270
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta training 9.3% 25 270
YouBot You.com answer index 8.5% 23 270
Scrapy Zyte (open-source framework) training 8.1% 22 270
omgilibot Webz.io training 8.1% 22 270
DuckAssistBot DuckDuckGo live retrieval 7.4% 20 270
Timpibot Timpi training 7.0% 19 270
ImagesiftBot ImageSift (Hive) training 6.3% 17 270
ChatGPT-User OpenAI live retrieval 6.3% 17 270
FacebookBot Meta training 5.9% 16 270
omgili Webz.io training 5.6% 15 270
Meta-ExternalFetcher Meta live retrieval 5.6% 15 270
Google-CloudVertexBot Google live retrieval 5.2% 14 270
PanguBot Huawei training 4.8% 13 270
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI answer index 4.1% 11 270
Claude-User Anthropic live retrieval 4.1% 11 270
Claude-SearchBot Anthropic answer index 4.1% 11 270
Applebot Apple answer index 4.1% 11 270
cohere-training-data-crawler Cohere training 3.3% 9 270
SemrushBot-OCOB Semrush training 3.0% 8 270
Kangaroo Bot Kangaroo LLM training 3.0% 8 270
AI2Bot Allen Institute for AI training 3.0% 8 270
MistralAI-User Mistral AI live retrieval 2.6% 7 270
Perplexity-User Perplexity live retrieval 2.2% 6 270
Meta-WebIndexer Meta answer index 2.2% 6 270
GoogleOther Google training 2.2% 6 270
TikTokSpider ByteDance live retrieval 0.4% 1 270
MistralAI-Training Mistral AI training 0.4% 1 270
Meta-ExternalAds Meta training 0.4% 1 270
Amzn-SearchBot Amazon answer index 0.4% 1 270
OAI-AdsBot OpenAI live retrieval 0.0% 0 270
msnbot Microsoft answer index 0.0% 0 270
MistralAI-Index Mistral AI answer index 0.0% 0 270
Googlebot-News Google answer index 0.0% 0 270
Googlebot Google answer index 0.0% 0 270
facebookexternalhit Meta live retrieval 0.0% 0 270
Bingbot Microsoft answer index 0.0% 0 270
Amzn-User Amazon live retrieval 0.0% 0 270

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 enel.it 98 0 yes
2 generali.it 96 0 yes
3 eolo.it 94 0 no
4 rollingstone.it 94 0 yes
5 quotidianosanita.it 93 0 no
6 meteolive.it 93 0 no
7 calcionapoli24.it 93 0 no
8 seeweb.it 93 0 no
9 nanosystems.it 93 0 no
10 everyeye.it 92 3 yes
11 libero.it 92 0 no
12 infocert.it 92 0 no
13 simplybook.it 92 0 no
14 ilgiornale.it 92 0 no
15 aci.it 92 0 no

Highest AI access scores among the 270 domains measured in this segment.

Least accessible

DomainScoreEngines blockedllms.txt
1 placehold.it 29 0 no
2 senato.it 30 0 no
3 redd.it 36 0 no
4 amazon.it 40 13 no
5 rai.it 44 0 no
6 vivaticket.it 44 0 no
7 joom.it 46 0 no
8 adr.it 47 0 no
9 mitm.it 50 0 no
10 giustizia.it 51 0 no
11 agenziaentrateriscossione.gov.it 51 0 no
12 doctolib.it 51 0 no
13 pin.it 51 0 no
14 skyscanner.it 52 0 no
15 agenziaentrate.gov.it 53 0 no

Lowest AI access scores among the same 270 domains.

Compare with the rest of the grouping top-level domain segments

The largest 12 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

A top-level domain is a weak proxy for jurisdiction. Most of them are open to any registrant anywhere, so a domain under a country-code registry may be operated from outside that country by a company no local law reaches. Read these rows as differences between registration communities and the publishing cultures inside them, not as differences between legal regimes.

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.