OpenAI . tier 1
OAI-SearchBot
Builds the index behind ChatGPT search results.
244 of the 3,618 sites we measured deny OAI-SearchBot access to their root, which is 6.7% of the index.
How to allow or block it
A group naming the token wins outright over the wildcard group. It does not inherit from it, so rules set under User-agent: * do not carry over.
# Allow OAI-SearchBot everywhere
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow:
# Block OAI-SearchBot entirely
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Disallow: /Sites blocking OAI-SearchBot
Most-visited first. Showing up to 100 of 244.
| Rank | Domain | Score | Answer-surface crawlers | Stack |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | facebook.com | Score 35 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 6 blocked | unidentified |
| 11 | instagram.com | Score 14 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 12 | mail.ru | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 15 | twitter.com | Score 14 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 25 | amazon.com | Score 16 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | Akamai |
| 49 | x.com | Score 14 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 54 | tiktok.com | Score 15 out of 100, grade F | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 56 | pinterest.com | Score 17 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 71 | myfritz.net | Score 14 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 76 | chatgpt.com | Score 14 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 87 | baidu.com | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 109 | reddit.com | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 159 | nytimes.comrefused GPTBot | Score 21 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | Fastly |
| 189 | soundcloud.com | Score 42 out of 100, grade D, partial assessment | 8 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 204 | cnn.com | Score 31 out of 100, grade F | 10 blocked | Fastly |
| 218 | bbc.com | Score 34 out of 100, grade F | 9 blocked | Next.js . Fastly |
| 236 | bbc.co.uk | Score 37 out of 100, grade F | 9 blocked | Fastly |
| 249 | meraki.com | Score 8 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 268 | imdb.com | Score 9 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 277 | launchpad.netrefused GPTBot | Score 20 out of 100, grade F | 9 blocked | unidentified |
| 307 | weibo.com | Score 18 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 335 | amazon.co.uk | Score 16 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 353 | naver.com | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 379 | bloomberg.comrefused GPTBot | Score 27 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | Fastly |
| 391 | amazon.de | Score 16 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 436 | claude.airefused GPTBot | Score 48 out of 100, grade D | 4 blocked | Cloudflare |
| 459 | gcdn.co | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 462 | edgecdn.ru | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 477 | sohu.com | Score 8 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 483 | amazon.co.za | Score 16 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | Akamai |
| 485 | cnbc.comrefused GPTBot | Score 30 out of 100, grade F | 9 blocked | Akamai |
| 488 | skybridge.click | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 495 | amazon.co.jp | Score 16 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | Akamai |
| 499 | quora.com | Score 13 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | unidentified |
| 586 | usatoday.com | Score 24 out of 100, grade F | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 600 | imgsmail.ru | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 617 | threads.com | Score 14 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 621 | telegraph.co.uk | Score 37 out of 100, grade F | 10 blocked | Adobe Experience Manager . Fastly |
| 626 | amazon.fr | Score 16 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 637 | sharethrough.com | Score 14 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 647 | amazon.ca | Score 22 out of 100, grade F | 10 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 664 | yelp.com | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 668 | hstgr.net | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 687 | hihonorcloud.com | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 690 | amazon.in | Score 16 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 692 | dailymail.co.ukrefused GPTBot | Score 26 out of 100, grade F | 11 blocked | Akamai |
| 698 | vkontakte.ru | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 708 | dailymail.comrefused GPTBot | Score 26 out of 100, grade F | 11 blocked | Akamai |
| 717 | fb.com | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 720 | amazon.es | Score 16 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 721 | pinimg.com | Score 17 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 725 | amazon.it | Score 16 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 730 | quantserve.com | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 732 | cnet.com | Score 44 out of 100, grade D | 10 blocked | WordPress |
| 741 | creativecdn.com | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 817 | adform.net | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 837 | lefigaro.fr | Score 55 out of 100, grade D | 7 blocked | unidentified |
| 843 | daum.net | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 849 | amazon.com.au | Score 15 out of 100, grade F | 10 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 862 | amazon.com.br | Score 16 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | Akamai |
| 868 | figma.com | Score 48 out of 100, grade D | 8 blocked | Sanity . Amazon CloudFront |
| 890 | nbcnews.com | Score 30 out of 100, grade F | 11 blocked | Next.js . Akamai |
| 942 | spiegel.de | Score 40 out of 100, grade D | 8 blocked | Google Cloud / GFE |
| 963 | stbid.ru | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 965 | blackhub.team | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 969 | mailchi.mp | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 987 | btloader.com | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 1005 | elmundo.es | Score 56 out of 100, grade D | 5 blocked | Fastly |
| 1040 | amazon.com.mxrefused GPTBot | Score 15 out of 100, grade F | 10 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 1071 | rocketmoney.dev | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 1074 | skroutz.grrefused GPTBot | Score 54 out of 100, grade D, partial assessment | 6 blocked | Cloudflare |
| 1083 | bfmtv.com | Score 35 out of 100, grade F | 11 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 1084 | marca.com | Score 63 out of 100, grade C | 5 blocked | Fastly |
| 1093 | huffpost.com | Score 46 out of 100, grade D | 11 blocked | Fastly |
| 1113 | theconversation.com | Score 26 out of 100, grade F | 11 blocked | Next.js . Fastly |
| 1118 | xiaohongshu.com | Score 14 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 1124 | gsmarena.com | Score 42 out of 100, grade D | 6 blocked | unidentified |
| 1138 | netcraze.io | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 1171 | pimpbunny.comrefused GPTBot | Score 32 out of 100, grade F | 8 blocked | Cloudflare |
| 1191 | nu.nlrefused GPTBot | Score 38 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 8 blocked | Akamai |
| 1193 | ad.nlrefused GPTBot | Score 38 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 8 blocked | Akamai |
| 1205 | economist.comrefused GPTBot | Score 33 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 10 blocked | Cloudflare |
| 1228 | namu.wiki | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 1236 | namecheaphosting.com | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 1237 | kakao.com | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 1254 | furaffinity.netrefused GPTBot | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | Cloudflare |
| 1257 | hln.berefused GPTBot | Score 38 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 8 blocked | Akamai |
| 1287 | themoviedb.org | Score 24 out of 100, grade F | 11 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 1305 | actu.fr | Score 42 out of 100, grade D | 8 blocked | Cloudflare |
| 1315 | f95zone.torefused GPTBot | Score 27 out of 100, grade F | 9 blocked | Cloudflare |
| 1376 | huffingtonpost.com | Score 46 out of 100, grade D | 11 blocked | Fastly |
| 1404 | dw.com | Score 24 out of 100, grade F | 9 blocked | Akamai |
| 1410 | iltalehti.fi | Score 26 out of 100, grade F | 11 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 1481 | eenadu.net | Score 42 out of 100, grade D | 11 blocked | Amazon CloudFront |
| 1515 | exhentai.org | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 1522 | attn.tv | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 1548 | tjk.org | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 1571 | aka.ms | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 1663 | sportfilm800.com | Score 14 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
| 1670 | keirin.jp | Score 6 out of 100, grade F, partial assessment | 11 blocked | unidentified |
Using these figures
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CrawlIndex by Fidget Labs BV. "Sites blocking OAI-SearchBot." https://crawlindex.org (measured 2026-09-22). Licensed CC BY 4.0.