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

digicertdns.com and vox.com

digicertdns.com #2,281 vox.com #2,282

Measured takeaway

Botfy does not have comparable evidence for a strong policy takeaway; the available states are shown below.

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.

Evidencedigicertdns.com vox.com
robots.txt Fetch failed: dns_error Served and parsed
Google crawl posture Blocked Open
Unnamed crawler fallback Unavailable Partly Restricted they inherit the wildcard (*) group's rules
Base /llms.txt Not probed 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 purposedigicertdns.com vox.com
Model training Observation unavailable Mixed
AI search Observation unavailable Mixed
Live assistant fetch Observation unavailable Mixed
Opt-out directives Observation unavailable Blocked
Ambiguous / undocumented Observation unavailable Blocked

Named agents

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

Agentdigicertdns.com vox.com
GPTBot OpenAI Observation unavailable Allowed
ClaudeBot Anthropic Observation unavailable Blocked
CCBot Common Crawl Observation unavailable Blocked
Bytespider ByteDance Observation unavailable Blocked
TikTokSpider ByteDance Observation unavailable Blocked
meta-externalagent Meta Observation unavailable Blocked
FacebookBot Meta Observation unavailable Blocked
cohere-ai Cohere Observation unavailable Blocked
cohere-training-data-crawler Cohere Observation unavailable Blocked
Diffbot Diffbot Observation unavailable Blocked
DeepSeekBot DeepSeek Observation unavailable Blocked
Timpibot Timpi Observation unavailable Blocked
24 additional tracked agents
Agentdigicertdns.com vox.com
omgili Observation unavailableBlocked
Omgilibot Observation unavailableBlocked
img2dataset Observation unavailableBlocked
AI2Bot Observation unavailableBlocked
Ai2Bot-Dolma Observation unavailableBlocked
webzio-extended Observation unavailableBlocked
Claude-SearchBot Observation unavailableBlocked
Applebot Observation unavailableAllowed
PerplexityBot Observation unavailableBlocked
YouBot Observation unavailableBlocked
PetalBot Observation unavailableBlocked
SemanticScholarBot Observation unavailableBlocked
ChatGPT-User Observation unavailableBlocked
Claude-User Observation unavailableBlocked
Claude-Web Observation unavailableBlocked
Perplexity-User Observation unavailableBlocked
Amazonbot Observation unavailableAllowed
meta-externalfetcher Observation unavailableBlocked
MistralAI-User Observation unavailableBlocked
DuckAssistBot Observation unavailableBlocked
Google-Extended Observation unavailableBlocked
Applebot-Extended Observation unavailableBlocked
anthropic-ai Observation unavailableBlocked
Scrapy Observation unavailableBlocked

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.

Traitdigicertdns.com vox.com
Wildcard group Parsing unavailable 94.1% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 Yes 94.1% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
Effectively open file Parsing unavailable 16.4% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 No 16.4% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
Sitemap declared Parsing unavailable 65.6% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 Yes 65.6% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
robots.txt served Fetch failed: dns_error 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 Fetch failed: dns_error 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 Parsing unavailable 0.2% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 No 0.2% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
Blanket disallow Parsing unavailable 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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