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

cloudflare.com and gstatic.com

cloudflare.com #2 gstatic.com #3

Measured takeaway

gstatic.com's robots.txt disallows every crawler; cloudflare.com's does not.

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.

Evidencecloudflare.com gstatic.com
robots.txt Served and parsed Served and parsed
Google crawl posture Open Blocked
Unnamed crawler fallback Allowed the wildcard (*) group is effectively open Blocked the wildcard (*) group disallows everything, so they are blocked without being named
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 purposecloudflare.com gstatic.com
Model training Allowed Not explicitly addressed
AI search Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Live assistant fetch Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Opt-out directives Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Ambiguous / undocumented Allowed 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.

Agentcloudflare.com gstatic.com
GPTBot OpenAI Allowed Not explicitly addressed
CCBot Common Crawl Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Cohere-ai Cohere Allowed Not explicitly addressed
PerplexityBot Perplexity Allowed Not explicitly addressed
ChatGPT-User OpenAI Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Claude-Web Anthropic Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Google-Extended Google Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Anthropic-AI Anthropic Allowed Not explicitly addressed

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.

Traitcloudflare.com gstatic.com
Wildcard group Yes 95.1% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 Yes 95.1% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Effectively open file Yes 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 Yes 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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