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

coindesk.com and volvocars.com

coindesk.com #3,945 volvocars.com #3,944

Measured takeaway

coindesk.com blocks model-training crawlers; volvocars.com has mixed rules for model-training crawlers.

coindesk.com blocks GPTBot; volvocars.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.

Evidencecoindesk.com volvocars.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 purposecoindesk.com volvocars.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.

Agentcoindesk.com volvocars.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
FacebookBot Meta Blocked Partly blocked
cohere-ai Cohere Blocked Partly blocked
Diffbot Diffbot Blocked Partly blocked
omgili Webz.io Blocked Partly blocked
omgilibot Webz.io Blocked Partly blocked
PerplexityBot Perplexity Blocked Partly blocked
Amazonbot Amazon Blocked Partly blocked
12 additional tracked agents
Agentcoindesk.com volvocars.com
Google-Extended BlockedPartly blocked
Applebot-Extended BlockedPartly blocked
anthropic-ai BlockedPartly blocked
OAI-SearchBot Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
Claude-SearchBot Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
YouBot Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
PetalBot Not explicitly addressedBlocked
ChatGPT-User Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
Claude-User Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
Claude-Web BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Perplexity-User Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
Scrapy BlockedNot 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.

Traitcoindesk.com volvocars.com
Wildcard group Yes 94.1% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 Yes 94.1% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
Effectively open file No 16.4% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 No 16.4% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
Sitemap declared Yes 65.6% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 Yes 65.6% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
robots.txt served Yes 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 No 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 No 0.2% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 No 0.2% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
Blanket disallow No 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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