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

mz.de and taxfoundation.org

mz.de #14,889 taxfoundation.org #14,890

Measured takeaway

mz.de blocks model-training crawlers; taxfoundation.org allows model-training crawlers.

mz.de blocks GPTBot; taxfoundation.org allows 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.

Evidencemz.de taxfoundation.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 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 purposemz.de taxfoundation.org
Model training Blocked Allowed
AI search Blocked Allowed
Live assistant fetch Blocked Allowed
Opt-out directives Blocked Not explicitly addressed
Ambiguous / undocumented Blocked Allowed

Named agents

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

Agentmz.de taxfoundation.org
GPTBot OpenAI Blocked Allowed
CCBot Common Crawl Blocked Allowed
Claude-Web Anthropic Blocked Allowed
anthropic-ai Anthropic Blocked Allowed
ClaudeBot Anthropic 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
Diffbot Diffbot Blocked Not explicitly addressed
Timpibot Timpi Blocked Not explicitly addressed
10 additional tracked agents
Agentmz.de taxfoundation.org
omgili BlockedNot explicitly addressed
OAI-SearchBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
PerplexityBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
YouBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
PetalBot Not explicitly addressedAllowed
ChatGPT-User Not explicitly addressedAllowed
Amazonbot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Google-Extended BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Applebot-Extended BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Scrapy Not explicitly addressedAllowed

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.

Traitmz.de taxfoundation.org
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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