crawlindex

Updated nightly. Method published in full.

The open index of how the web treats AI agents.

We measure the most-visited sites on the web and publish what we find. Which AI crawlers each site blocks. Whether it publishes llms.txt or agents.md. Whether it quietly serves crawlers something different from what it serves you. Every number is recomputable from archived evidence.

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What the last crawl found

3,654 domains measured on 2026-08-09. Sites we could not reach are excluded rather than counted as failures.

18%
Block at least one answer-surface crawler
664 of 3,654 sites
12%
Publish an llms.txt
447 sites
1%
Publish an agents.md
27 sites
64
Mean readiness score
Out of 100, across scored sites

Which crawlers get shut out

Share of measured sites whose robots.txt denies each crawler the site root.

AI crawlers ranked by how many indexed sites block them
CrawlerOperatorBlocked byProportion
CCBotCommon Crawl589 (16.1%)
GPTBotOpenAI554 (15.2%)
BytespiderByteDance552 (15.1%)
ClaudeBotAnthropic534 (14.6%)
meta-externalagentMeta495 (13.5%)
Google-ExtendedGoogle482 (13.2%)
Applebot-ExtendedApple460 (12.6%)
AmazonbotAmazon449 (12.3%)
DiffbotDiffbot389 (10.6%)
cohere-aiCohere388 (10.6%)
PerplexityBotPerplexity386 (10.6%)
YouBotYou.com333 (9.1%)

All 23 tracked crawlers

Least agent-ready right now

Fully measured sites with the lowest scores. Partial assessments are excluded because a renormalised score is not comparable to a complete one.

Lowest scoring domains in the index
RankDomainScoreAnswer-surface crawlersAgent files
56tiktok.comScore 15 out of 100, grade F11 blockednone
25amazon.comScore 18 out of 100, grade F10 blockednone
63msn.comScore 18 out of 100, grade F11 blockednone
317amazon.co.ukScore 18 out of 100, grade F10 blockednone
382amazon.deScore 18 out of 100, grade F10 blockednone
501amazon.co.jpScore 18 out of 100, grade F10 blockednone
612amazon.frScore 18 out of 100, grade F10 blockednone
642amazon.caScore 18 out of 100, grade F10 blockednone
666amazon.inScore 18 out of 100, grade F10 blockednone
707amazon.co.zaScore 18 out of 100, grade F10 blockednone

Full leaderboard, best and worst

Recent movements

Only real changes are recorded. A site's first measurement is a baseline, not an event.

All recorded changes

Why this exists

Publishers are deciding, one robots.txt at a time, whether AI systems may read the web. Those decisions are made quietly, changed without announcement, and are individually trivial to check but collectively invisible.

CrawlIndex checks them on a schedule and keeps the receipts. The scoring rubric is published, every score is arithmetic over archived evidence, and no language model touches the numbers. If you disagree with a result you can read exactly how it was reached.

Read the methodology.