GPTBot, OpenAI's web crawler, is the most blocked bot among websites with organic traffic, according to data from Site Stats Database tracking 880,858 sites. Over 45,000 websites block GPTBot, surpass…
Cloudflare is updating its AI crawler controls to categorize bots by behavior—search, agent, or training—and will block training and agent crawlers by default on ad-supported sites starting September …
AI crawlers now match Googlebot in traffic to a website that hit the front page of Hacker News, with both categories accounting for 35% of 240,060 bot visits over 30 days. AmazonBot was the most aggre…
A developer discovered that AI crawlers like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot were methodically reading their technical blog. Instead of blocking them, they realized these bots distribute content …
Here is a factual summary of the article: The article clarifies the distinct purposes of three files used to manage AI crawler access to websites: **robots.txt** controls which pages crawlers like Go…