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

gtld-servers.net and linkedin.com

gtld-servers.net #18 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.

Evidencegtld-servers.net linkedin.com
robots.txt Fetch failed: dns_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 purposegtld-servers.net 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.

Agentgtld-servers.net 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
Agentgtld-servers.net 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.

Traitgtld-servers.net 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: dns_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: dns_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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