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

daily.dev and tek-tips.com

daily.dev #40,134 tek-tips.com #40,136

Measured takeaway

daily.dev has mixed rules for model-training crawlers; tek-tips.com blocks model-training crawlers.

daily.dev publishes a genuine /llms.txt; tek-tips.com was probed and did not have a genuine base file.

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.

Evidencedaily.dev tek-tips.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 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 purposedaily.dev tek-tips.com
Model training Mixed Blocked
AI search Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Live assistant fetch Mixed Blocked
Opt-out directives Blocked Blocked
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.

Agentdaily.dev tek-tips.com
GPTBot OpenAI Blocked Blocked
ClaudeBot Anthropic Blocked Blocked
CCBot Common Crawl Blocked Blocked
Bytespider ByteDance Blocked Blocked
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta Blocked Blocked
Amazonbot Amazon Blocked Blocked
Google-Extended Google Blocked Blocked
AppleBot-Extended Apple Blocked Blocked
Cohere-ai Cohere Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Diffbot Diffbot Allowed Not explicitly addressed
AI2Bot Allen Institute Allowed Not explicitly addressed
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI Allowed Not explicitly addressed
6 additional tracked agents
Agentdaily.dev tek-tips.com
PerplexityBot AllowedNot explicitly addressed
YouBot AllowedNot explicitly addressed
ChatGPT-User AllowedNot explicitly addressed
Claude-Web AllowedNot explicitly addressed
Meta-ExternalFetcher AllowedNot explicitly addressed
Anthropic-ai AllowedNot 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.

Traitdaily.dev tek-tips.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 →

Keep comparing

Each suggestion replaces one side using an editorial collection or current rank proximity. Neither means the sites have similar policies.