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

miguelgrinberg.com and warenvergleich.de

miguelgrinberg.com #250,860 warenvergleich.de #250,858

Measured takeaway

miguelgrinberg.com blocks model-training crawlers; warenvergleich.de has mixed rules for model-training crawlers.

miguelgrinberg.com blocks GPTBot; warenvergleich.de partly blocks GPTBot.

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.

Evidencemiguelgrinberg.com warenvergleich.de
robots.txt Served and parsed Served and parsed
Google crawl posture Open Open
Unnamed crawler fallback Unrestricted no wildcard (*) group exists, so no rule applies to them at all Unrestricted no wildcard (*) group exists, so no rule applies to them at all
Base /llms.txt Not probed Not 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 purposemiguelgrinberg.com warenvergleich.de
Model training Blocked Mixed
AI search Blocked Mixed
Live assistant fetch Blocked Mixed
Opt-out directives Blocked Mixed
Ambiguous / undocumented Blocked Mixed

Named agents

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

Agentmiguelgrinberg.com warenvergleich.de
GPTBot OpenAI Blocked Partly blocked
ClaudeBot Anthropic Blocked Partly blocked
CCBot Common Crawl Blocked Partly blocked
Bytespider ByteDance Blocked Partly blocked
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta Blocked Partly blocked
FacebookBot Meta Blocked Partly blocked
cohere-training-data-crawler Cohere Blocked Partly blocked
Diffbot Diffbot Blocked Partly blocked
DeepSeekBot DeepSeek Blocked Partly blocked
Timpibot Timpi Blocked Partly blocked
omgili Webz.io Blocked Partly blocked
AI2Bot Allen Institute Blocked Partly blocked
27 additional tracked agents
Agentmiguelgrinberg.com warenvergleich.de
webzio-extended BlockedPartly blocked
Claude-SearchBot BlockedPartly blocked
PerplexityBot BlockedPartly blocked
ChatGPT-User BlockedPartly blocked
Claude-User BlockedPartly blocked
Claude-Web BlockedPartly blocked
Perplexity-User BlockedPartly blocked
Amazonbot BlockedPartly blocked
Google-Extended BlockedPartly blocked
Applebot-Extended BlockedPartly blocked
anthropic-ai BlockedPartly blocked
TikTokSpider BlockedNot explicitly addressed
cohere-ai BlockedNot explicitly addressed
omgilibot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
img2dataset BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Ai2Bot-Dolma BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Kangaroo Bot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
panscient.com BlockedNot explicitly addressed
OAI-SearchBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Applebot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
YouBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
PetalBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Meta-ExternalFetcher BlockedNot explicitly addressed
MistralAI-User BlockedNot explicitly addressed
DuckAssistBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
GoogleOther BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Scrapy 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.

Traitmiguelgrinberg.com warenvergleich.de
Wildcard group No 89.6% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=680,000 No 89.6% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=680,000
Effectively open file No 26.0% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=680,000 No 26.0% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=680,000
Sitemap declared No 60.6% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=680,000 Yes 60.6% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=680,000
robots.txt served Yes 61.8% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=1,111,034 Yes 61.8% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=1,111,034
robots.txt returned 404 No 8.5% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=1,111,034 No 8.5% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=1,111,034
Over the RFC parse limit No 0.3% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=680,000 No 0.3% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=680,000
Blanket disallow No 10.8% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=680,000 No 10.8% Ranks 100,001–1,000,000 · n=680,000
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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