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

mindbox.ru and pnas.org

mindbox.ru #1,992 pnas.org #1,993

Measured takeaway

mindbox.ru allows model-training crawlers; pnas.org blocks model-training crawlers.

mindbox.ru allows GPTBot; pnas.org 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.

Evidencemindbox.ru pnas.org
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 Published 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 purposemindbox.ru pnas.org
Model training Allowed Blocked
AI search Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Live assistant fetch Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Opt-out directives Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Ambiguous / undocumented Allowed 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.

Agentmindbox.ru pnas.org
GPTBot OpenAI Allowed Blocked
ClaudeBot Anthropic Allowed Not explicitly addressed
CCBot Common Crawl Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Bytespider ByteDance Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Meta-ExternalAgent Meta Allowed Not explicitly addressed
FacebookBot Meta Allowed Not explicitly addressed
cohere-ai Cohere Allowed Not explicitly addressed
cohere-training-data-crawler Cohere Allowed Not explicitly addressed
AI2Bot Allen Institute Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Kangaroo Bot Kangaroo LLM Allowed Not explicitly addressed
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI Allowed Not explicitly addressed
Claude-SearchBot Anthropic Allowed Not explicitly addressed
14 additional tracked agents
Agentmindbox.ru pnas.org
Applebot AllowedNot explicitly addressed
PerplexityBot AllowedNot explicitly addressed
YouBot AllowedNot explicitly addressed
ChatGPT-User AllowedNot explicitly addressed
Claude-User AllowedNot explicitly addressed
Claude-Web AllowedNot explicitly addressed
Perplexity-User AllowedNot explicitly addressed
Amazonbot AllowedNot explicitly addressed
Meta-ExternalFetcher AllowedNot explicitly addressed
MistralAI-User AllowedNot explicitly addressed
DuckAssistBot AllowedNot explicitly addressed
Google-Extended AllowedNot explicitly addressed
Applebot-Extended AllowedNot explicitly addressed
anthropic-ai AllowedNot 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.

Traitmindbox.ru pnas.org
Wildcard group Yes 94.1% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 Yes 94.1% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
Effectively open file No 16.4% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 No 16.4% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
Sitemap declared Yes 65.6% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 Yes 65.6% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
robots.txt served Yes 60.7% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=9,037 Yes 60.7% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=9,037
robots.txt returned 404 No 5.4% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=9,037 No 5.4% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=9,037
Over the RFC parse limit No 0.2% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 No 0.2% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
Blanket disallow No 3.7% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437 No 3.7% Ranks 1,001–10,000 · n=5,437
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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