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SEO Strategy
We Checked 40 Major Websites' robots.txt — Here's Which AI Bots They Actually Block
We checked the robots.txt files of 40 major websites. ClaudeBot and Bytespider are blocked by 81% of them — while GPTBot, the most famous AI crawler, is blocked by only 62%. Full data inside.
AI Search
Which Industries Block AI Crawlers? News Sites Lead by a Wide Margin (2026 Robots.txt Data)
News sites block AI crawlers more than any other industry: 41 of 69 news robots.txt files (59%) disallow GPTBot, vs 2 of 97 in finance. Fresh Oct 2026 robots.txt data: news leads at 59%, finance barely blocks. See the numbers and what to do.