robots.txt & llms.txt across the Tranco top 1M

Domain explorer

Look up a single domain's robots.txt & llms.txt metrics, effective AI policy, inferred tech stack (labelled hypothesis), and crawl history. Read-only; one indexed lookup per query.

theguardian.com

Tranco rank
188
popularity rank
TLD
com
theguardian.com
robots.txt records
2
across crawls
llms.txt records
1
across crawls

Live files on theguardian.com

Open the file as it exists on the host right now — may differ from what we measured. We link out rather than mirror (we store derived metrics, not raw bodies).

Effective AI / crawl policy (Google posture, §3.3)

CrawlPostureConsec. 5xxReasonAs of
CC-MAIN-2026-25 open 0 2xx: robots.txt present, no full disallow in effect 2026-06-18T14:30:30+00:00

robots.txt

CrawlStatusBytesGroupsAllowDisallow SitemapsWildcard *Disallow-allAI tokensAI verdicts
CC-MAIN-2026-25 200 2,873 3 0 50 2 yes no CCBot, PetalBot, FacebookBot, Bytespider, YouBot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, Applebot-Extended, meta-externalagent, Amazonbot, DuckAssistBot ccbot:block, petalbot:block, facebookbot:block, bytespider:block, youbot:block, perplexitybot:block, anthropic-ai:block, claudebot:block, claude-searchbot:block, claude-user:block, applebot-extended:block, meta-externalagent:block, amazonbot:block, duckassistbot:block
CC-MAIN-2026-25 200 2,844 3 0 50 2 yes no CCBot, PetalBot, FacebookBot, Bytespider, YouBot, PerplexityBot, anthropic-ai, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, Applebot-Extended, meta-externalagent, Amazonbot, DuckAssistBot

llms.txt

Collected by our own polite crawler, not Common Crawl — Common Crawl doesn't capture /llms.txt. See Methodology.

CrawlStatusVariantConformantSections LinksGenerator
CC-MAIN-2026-25 404

llms.txt data reflects adoption + conformance only, never consumption — publishing a file does not mean any AI reads it.

Inferred tech stack hypothesis

No tech inference for this domain.