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

trendmicro.com and visualstudio.com

trendmicro.com #537 visualstudio.com #535

Measured takeaway

trendmicro.com publishes a genuine /llms.txt; visualstudio.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.

Evidencetrendmicro.com visualstudio.com
robots.txt Served and parsed Returned HTTP 301
Google crawl posture Open Open
Unnamed crawler fallback Partly Restricted they inherit the wildcard (*) group's rules Unavailable
Base /llms.txt Published 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 purposetrendmicro.com visualstudio.com
Model training Mixed Observation unavailable
AI search Mixed Observation unavailable
Live assistant fetch Mixed Observation unavailable
Opt-out directives Mixed Observation unavailable
Ambiguous / undocumented Not explicitly addressed Observation unavailable

Named agents

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

Agenttrendmicro.com visualstudio.com
ClaudeBot Anthropic Partly blocked Observation unavailable
CCBot Common Crawl Partly blocked Observation unavailable
Bytespider ByteDance Partly blocked Observation unavailable
meta-externalagent Meta Partly blocked Observation unavailable
FacebookBot Meta Partly blocked Observation unavailable
cohere-ai Cohere Partly blocked Observation unavailable
OAI-SearchBot OpenAI Partly blocked Observation unavailable
Claude-SearchBot Anthropic Partly blocked Observation unavailable
Applebot Apple Partly blocked Observation unavailable
PerplexityBot Perplexity Partly blocked Observation unavailable
ChatGPT-User OpenAI Partly blocked Observation unavailable
Claude-User Anthropic Partly blocked Observation unavailable
5 additional tracked agents
Agenttrendmicro.com visualstudio.com
claude-web Partly blockedObservation unavailable
Perplexity-User Partly blockedObservation unavailable
Amazonbot Partly blockedObservation unavailable
DuckAssistBot Partly blockedObservation unavailable
Google-Extended Partly blockedObservation unavailable

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.

Traittrendmicro.com visualstudio.com
Wildcard group Yes 95.1% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 Parsing unavailable 95.1% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Effectively open file No 11.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 Parsing unavailable 11.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Sitemap declared Yes 66.0% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 Parsing unavailable 66.0% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
robots.txt served Yes 53.3% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=1,000 No 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 Parsing unavailable 0.8% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529
Blanket disallow No 8.9% Ranks 1–1,000 · n=529 Parsing unavailable 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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