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

domaincontrol.com and linkedin.com

domaincontrol.com #19 linkedin.com #17

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.

Evidencedomaincontrol.com linkedin.com
robots.txt Fetch failed: connect_error Served and parsed
Google crawl posture Blocked Blocked
Unnamed crawler fallback Unavailable Blocked the wildcard (*) group disallows everything, so they are blocked without being named
Base /llms.txt Not probed Related file observed at /ai.txt; /llms.txt not established

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 purposedomaincontrol.com linkedin.com
Model training Observation unavailable Blocked
AI search Observation unavailable Mixed
Live assistant fetch Observation unavailable Blocked
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.

Agentdomaincontrol.com linkedin.com
GPTBot OpenAI Observation unavailable Blocked
ClaudeBot Anthropic Observation unavailable Blocked
CCBot Common Crawl Observation unavailable Blocked
Bytespider ByteDance Observation unavailable Blocked
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta Observation unavailable Blocked
cohere-ai Cohere Observation unavailable Blocked
Diffbot Diffbot Observation unavailable Blocked
Timpibot Timpi Observation unavailable Blocked
omgili Webz.io Observation unavailable Blocked
omgilibot Webz.io Observation unavailable Blocked
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI Observation unavailable Partly blocked
Claude-SearchBot Anthropic Observation unavailable Partly blocked
11 additional tracked agents
Agentdomaincontrol.com linkedin.com
Applebot Observation unavailablePartly blocked
PerplexityBot Observation unavailableBlocked
ChatGPT-User Observation unavailableBlocked
Claude-User Observation unavailableBlocked
Claude-Web Observation unavailableBlocked
Perplexity-User Observation unavailableBlocked
Meta-ExternalFetcher Observation unavailableBlocked
DuckAssistBot Observation unavailableBlocked
Google-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.

Traitdomaincontrol.com linkedin.com
Wildcard group Parsing unavailable 95.1% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 Yes 95.1% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Effectively open file Parsing unavailable 11.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 No 11.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Sitemap declared Parsing unavailable 66.0% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 No 66.0% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
robots.txt served Fetch failed: connect_error 53.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000 Yes 53.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000
robots.txt returned 404 Fetch failed: connect_error 4.6% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000 No 4.6% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000
Over the RFC parse limit Parsing unavailable 0.8% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 No 0.8% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Blanket disallow Parsing unavailable 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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