Cloudflare will block AI training and agent crawlers by default on ad-supported pages starting September 15, affecting all new sites and existing free-tier accounts. The company introduced a three-cra…
Cloudflare announced plans to automatically block mixed-use web crawlers that index sites for search engines and also serve AI companies, starting September 15, 2026. The hosting platform will default…
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 …
A new analysis of server logs for CitationIQ.com found that 81.8% of claimed AI assistant traffic was fake, with only 6 of 33 requests verified as legitimate. Googlebot spoofing was even worse, with j…
A developer built Greater Than Services, a platform that audits websites for three pillars: Conversion Rate Optimization (CRO), Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and Agentic Search Optimization (A…
Jeremy Howard from Answer.AI proposed llms.txt, a Markdown file placed at a domain root to describe a site for AI consumption. Unlike robots.txt or sitemap.xml, which are used by continuous crawlers, …
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 …
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince falsely claimed that bot traffic surpassed human traffic for the first time, but the company's own data shows online traffic remains about two-thirds human. Prince select…
A developer's audit of AI crawler performance revealed that bots were timing out on long-tail URLs and encountering JavaScript shells on category templates, while standard PageSpeed monitoring only ch…
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…