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

people.com and welt.de

people.com #797 welt.de #795

Measured takeaway

people.com has mixed rules for model-training crawlers; welt.de blocks model-training crawlers.

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.

Evidencepeople.com welt.de
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 purposepeople.com welt.de
Model training Mixed Blocked
AI search Mixed Blocked
Live assistant fetch Mixed Blocked
Opt-out directives Blocked Blocked
Ambiguous / undocumented Blocked Blocked

Named agents

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

Agentpeople.com welt.de
CCBot Common Crawl Blocked Blocked
Bytespider ByteDance Blocked Blocked
cohere-ai Cohere Blocked Blocked
cohere-training-data-crawler Cohere Blocked Blocked
Timpibot Timpi Blocked Blocked
omgili Webz.io Blocked Blocked
omgilibot Webz.io Blocked Blocked
Webzio-Extended Webz.io Blocked Blocked
PerplexityBot Perplexity Blocked Blocked
YouBot You.com Blocked Blocked
PetalBot Huawei Blocked Blocked
Perplexity-User Perplexity Blocked Blocked
24 additional tracked agents
Agentpeople.com welt.de
MistralAI-user BlockedBlocked
DuckAssistBot BlockedBlocked
Applebot-Extended BlockedBlocked
GPTBot Partly blockedNot explicitly addressed
ClaudeBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
TikTokSpider Not explicitly addressedBlocked
Meta-ExternalAgent BlockedNot explicitly addressed
FacebookBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Diffbot Not explicitly addressedBlocked
img2dataset Not explicitly addressedBlocked
AI2Bot Not explicitly addressedBlocked
Ai2Bot-Dolma Not explicitly addressedBlocked
Kangaroo Bot Not explicitly addressedBlocked
panscient.com Not explicitly addressedBlocked
OAI-SearchBot Partly blockedNot explicitly addressed
Claude-SearchBot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
ChatGPT-User Partly blockedNot explicitly addressed
Claude-User BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Claude-Web BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Amazonbot BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Meta-ExternalFetcher BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Google-Extended BlockedNot explicitly addressed
anthropic-ai BlockedNot explicitly addressed
Scrapy Not explicitly addressedBlocked

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.

Traitpeople.com welt.de
Wildcard group Yes 95.1% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 Yes 95.1% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Effectively open file No 11.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 No 11.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Sitemap declared Yes 66.0% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 Yes 66.0% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
robots.txt served Yes 53.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000 Yes 53.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000
robots.txt returned 404 No 4.6% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000 No 4.6% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000
Over the RFC parse limit No 0.8% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 No 0.8% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Blanket disallow No 8.9% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 No 8.9% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
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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