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

hellomagazine.com and ranker.com

hellomagazine.com #13,435 ranker.com #13,437

Measured takeaway

hellomagazine.com blocks AI-search crawlers; ranker.com has mixed rules for AI-search crawlers.

hellomagazine.com blocks OAI-SearchBot; ranker.com partly blocks OAI-SearchBot.

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.

Evidencehellomagazine.com ranker.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 found when 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 purposehellomagazine.com ranker.com
Model training Blocked Blocked
AI search Blocked Mixed
Live assistant fetch Blocked Mixed
Opt-out directives Blocked Blocked
Ambiguous / undocumented Not explicitly addressed Mixed

Named agents

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

Agenthellomagazine.com ranker.com
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI Blocked Partly blocked
PerplexityBot Perplexity Blocked Partly blocked
Perplexity-User Perplexity Blocked Partly blocked
CCBot Common Crawl Blocked Blocked
Bytespider ByteDance Blocked Blocked
cohere-ai Cohere Blocked Blocked
omgili Webz.io Blocked Blocked
omgilibot Webz.io Blocked Blocked
Applebot-Extended Apple Blocked Blocked
GPTBot OpenAI Not explicitly addressed Blocked
ClaudeBot Anthropic Not explicitly addressed Blocked
meta-externalagent Meta Not explicitly addressed Blocked
19 additional tracked agents
Agenthellomagazine.com ranker.com
FacebookBot Not explicitly addressedBlocked
cohere-training-data-crawler Not explicitly addressedBlocked
Diffbot Not explicitly addressedBlocked
DeepseekBot Not explicitly addressedBlocked
Timpibot Not explicitly addressedBlocked
AI2Bot Not explicitly addressedBlocked
AI2Bot-Dolma Not explicitly addressedBlocked
webzio-extended Not explicitly addressedBlocked
Claude-SearchBot Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
Applebot Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
Petalbot Not explicitly addressedBlocked
ChatGPT-User Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
Claude-User Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
Amazonbot Not explicitly addressedBlocked
meta-externalfetcher Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
MistralAI-User Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked
DuckAssistBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
anthropic-ai Not explicitly addressedBlocked
GoogleOther Not explicitly addressedPartly blocked

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.

Traithellomagazine.com ranker.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 No 22.6% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=54,147
Sitemap declared Yes 61.7% Ranks 10,001–100,000 · n=54,147 Yes 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.