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

bloomberg.com and indeed.com

bloomberg.com #363 indeed.com #361

Measured takeaway

bloomberg.com blocks model-training crawlers; indeed.com has mixed rules for model-training crawlers.

bloomberg.com blocks GPTBot; indeed.com partly blocks GPTBot.

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.

Evidencebloomberg.com indeed.com
robots.txt Served and parsed Served and parsed
Google crawl posture Open Open
Unnamed crawler fallback Partly Restricted they inherit the wildcard (*) group's rules Partly Restricted they inherit the wildcard (*) group's rules
Base /llms.txt Not probed Not 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 purposebloomberg.com indeed.com
Model training Blocked Mixed
AI search Blocked Mixed
Live assistant fetch Blocked Mixed
Opt-out directives Blocked Mixed
Ambiguous / undocumented Blocked Mixed

Named agents

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

Agentbloomberg.com indeed.com
GPTBot OpenAI Blocked Partly blocked
ClaudeBot Anthropic Blocked Partly blocked
CCBot Common Crawl Blocked Partly blocked
ByteSpider ByteDance Blocked Partly blocked
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta Blocked Partly blocked
Diffbot Diffbot Blocked Partly blocked
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI Blocked Partly blocked
Claude-SearchBot Anthropic Blocked Partly blocked
PerplexityBot Perplexity Blocked Partly blocked
YouBot You.com Blocked Partly blocked
PetalBot Huawei Blocked Partly blocked
ChatGPT-User OpenAI Blocked Partly blocked
21 additional tracked agents
Agentbloomberg.com indeed.com
Claude-User BlockedPartly blocked
AmazonBot BlockedPartly blocked
Meta-ExternalFetcher BlockedPartly blocked
DuckAssistBot BlockedPartly blocked
Google-Extended BlockedPartly blocked
Applebot-Extended BlockedPartly blocked
anthropic-ai BlockedPartly blocked
FacebookBot Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
cohere-ai BlockedNot explicitly addressed
cohere-training-data-crawler Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
DeepSeekBot Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
Timpibot Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
omgili Not explicitly addressedBlocked
omgilibot Not explicitly addressedBlocked
img2dataset Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
AI2Bot Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
Webzio-Extended Not explicitly addressedBlocked
Claude-Web BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Perplexity-User Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
GoogleOther Not explicitly addressedBlocked
Scrapy Not explicitly addressedBlocked

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.

Traitbloomberg.com indeed.com
Wildcard group Yes 95.1% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 Yes 95.1% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Effectively open file No 11.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 No 11.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Sitemap declared Yes 66.0% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 No 66.0% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
robots.txt served Yes 53.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000 Yes 53.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000
robots.txt returned 404 No 4.6% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000 No 4.6% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000
Over the RFC parse limit No 0.8% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 No 0.8% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Blanket disallow No 8.9% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 No 8.9% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
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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