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

challengermode.com and domainmanage.com

challengermode.com #47,051 domainmanage.com #47,053

Measured takeaway

challengermode.com has mixed rules for model-training crawlers; domainmanage.com blocks model-training crawlers.

challengermode.com partly blocks GPTBot; domainmanage.com 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.

Evidencechallengermode.com domainmanage.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 Allowed the wildcard (*) group is effectively open
Base /llms.txt Published 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 purposechallengermode.com domainmanage.com
Model training Mixed Blocked
AI search Mixed Blocked
Live assistant fetch Mixed Blocked
Opt-out directives Mixed Blocked
Ambiguous / undocumented Not explicitly addressed Not explicitly addressed

Named agents

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

Agentchallengermode.com domainmanage.com
GPTBot OpenAI Partly blocked Blocked
ClaudeBot Anthropic Partly blocked Blocked
CCBot Common Crawl Partly blocked Blocked
Bytespider ByteDance Partly blocked Blocked
Google-Extended Google Partly blocked Blocked
Applebot-Extended Apple Partly blocked Blocked
meta-externalagent Meta Not explicitly addressed Blocked
cohere-ai Cohere Partly blocked Not explicitly addressed
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI Partly blocked Not explicitly addressed
Claude-SearchBot Anthropic Partly blocked Not explicitly addressed
PerplexityBot Perplexity Partly blocked Not explicitly addressed
PetalBot Huawei Not explicitly addressed Blocked
2 additional tracked agents
Agentchallengermode.com domainmanage.com
ChatGPT-User Partly blockedNot explicitly addressed
Amazonbot 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.

Traitchallengermode.com domainmanage.com
Wildcard group Yes 92.1% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=54,147 Yes 92.1% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=54,147
Effectively open file No 22.6% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=54,147 Yes 22.6% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=54,147
Sitemap declared Yes 61.7% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=54,147 No 61.7% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=54,147
robots.txt served Yes 59.7% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=91,507 Yes 59.7% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=91,507
robots.txt returned 404 No 7.9% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=91,507 No 7.9% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=91,507
Over the RFC parse limit No 0.2% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=54,147 No 0.2% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=54,147
Blanket disallow No 4.0% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=54,147 No 4.0% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=54,147
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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