robots.txt & llms.txt across the Tranco top 1M
Data as of 2026-09-07 · robots.txt via Common Crawl CC-MAIN-2026-34 + our polite crawl · llms.txt via our polite crawl · Tranco list XN67N (2026-09-03T22:00:02.533886) · 1,000,000 panel domains 1,212,578 robots.txt fetches · 740,113 parsed · 56,498 llms.txt probes

Two public profiles · no score or winner

assetsconfigcdn.org and thehindu.com

assetsconfigcdn.org #2,962 thehindu.com #2,960

Measured takeaway

Botfy does not have comparable evidence for a strong policy takeaway; the available states are shown below.

Measured in Botfy's 2026-09-07 publication.

At a glance

A difference appears only when both sites have comparable evidence. Unavailable or unresolved observations remain incomplete.

Evidenceassetsconfigcdn.org thehindu.com
robots.txt Fetch failed: blocked Served and parsed
Google crawl posture Open Open
Unnamed crawler fallback Unavailable Partly Restricted they inherit the wildcard (*) group's rules
Base /llms.txt Not probed Not found when probed

Treatment by purpose

Only resolved blocked, allowed, or mixed states count as a policy agreement or difference. Unnamed agents still inherit each site's wildcard rules.

Declared purposeassetsconfigcdn.org thehindu.com
Model training Observation unavailable Blocked
AI search Observation unavailable Blocked
Live assistant fetch Observation unavailable Blocked
Opt-out directives Observation unavailable Not explicitly addressed
Ambiguous / undocumented Observation unavailable Blocked

Named agents

Measured differences appear first. “Not explicitly addressed” is not the same as allowed; the site's wildcard fallback governs that crawler.

Agentassetsconfigcdn.org thehindu.com
GPTBot OpenAI Observation unavailable Blocked
ClaudeBot Anthropic Observation unavailable Blocked
CCBot Common Crawl Observation unavailable Blocked
Bytespider ByteDance Observation unavailable Blocked
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta Observation unavailable Blocked
FacebookBot Meta Observation unavailable Blocked
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI Observation unavailable Blocked
PerplexityBot Perplexity Observation unavailable Blocked
YouBot You.com Observation unavailable Blocked
ChatGPT-User OpenAI Observation unavailable Blocked
Claude-Web Anthropic Observation unavailable Blocked
Amazonbot Amazon Observation unavailable Blocked
1 additional tracked agents
Agentassetsconfigcdn.org thehindu.com
Anthropic-ai Observation unavailableBlocked

How each site compares with its own rank peers

The sites may belong to different rank bands. Each percentage keeps its own population and denominator; Botfy does not subtract rates from unlike cohorts.

Traitassetsconfigcdn.org thehindu.com
Wildcard group Parsing unavailable 94.1% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 Yes 94.1% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
Effectively open file Parsing unavailable 16.4% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 No 16.4% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
Sitemap declared Parsing unavailable 65.6% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 Yes 65.6% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
robots.txt served Fetch failed: blocked 60.7% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=9,037 Yes 60.7% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=9,037
robots.txt returned 404 Fetch failed: blocked 5.4% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=9,037 No 5.4% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=9,037
Over the RFC parse limit Parsing unavailable 0.2% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 No 0.2% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
Blanket disallow Parsing unavailable 3.7% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 No 3.7% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
How this comparison is measured

Both sites use Botfy's latest published observations. A missing fetch, unresolved agent verdict, and measured absence are different states. Peer percentages use each site's exclusive Tranco rank band and print their own denominator. Populations, sources, and limits →

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