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

liveabout.com and renderforest.com

liveabout.com #29,237 renderforest.com #29,238

Measured takeaway

renderforest.com publishes a genuine /llms.txt; liveabout.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.

Evidenceliveabout.com renderforest.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 Published

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 purposeliveabout.com renderforest.com
Model training Mixed Not explicitly addressed
AI search Mixed Not explicitly addressed
Live assistant fetch Mixed Not explicitly addressed
Opt-out directives Blocked Not explicitly addressed
Ambiguous / undocumented Blocked 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.

Agentliveabout.com renderforest.com
GPTBot OpenAI Partly blocked Not explicitly addressed
ClaudeBot Anthropic Blocked Not explicitly addressed
CCBot Common Crawl Blocked Not explicitly addressed
Bytespider ByteDance Blocked Not explicitly addressed
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta Blocked Not explicitly addressed
FacebookBot Meta Blocked Not explicitly addressed
cohere-ai Cohere Blocked Not explicitly addressed
cohere-training-data-crawler Cohere Blocked Not explicitly addressed
Timpibot Timpi Blocked Not explicitly addressed
omgili Webz.io Blocked Not explicitly addressed
omgilibot Webz.io Blocked Not explicitly addressed
Webzio-Extended Webz.io Blocked Not explicitly addressed
16 additional tracked agents
Agentliveabout.com renderforest.com
OAI-SearchBot Partly blockedNot explicitly addressed
Claude-SearchBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
PerplexityBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
YouBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
PetalBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
ChatGPT-User Partly blockedNot explicitly addressed
Claude-User BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Claude-Web BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Perplexity-User BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Amazonbot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Meta-ExternalFetcher BlockedNot explicitly addressed
MistralAI-user BlockedNot explicitly addressed
DuckAssistBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Google-Extended BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Applebot-Extended BlockedNot explicitly addressed
anthropic-ai BlockedNot 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.

Traitliveabout.com renderforest.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 →

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