sector stringclasses 7
values | gptbot_blocked_pct float64 5.4 82.1 | claudebot_blocked_pct float64 3.2 74.5 | perplexitybot_blocked_pct float64 1 45.3 | google_extended_blocked_pct float64 3.8 68.2 | meta_externalagent_blocked_pct float64 2.1 61 | sample_size int64 3.1k 15.6k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
News & Publishing | 78.4 | 64.2 | 28.5 | 52.1 | 44.8 | 5,200 |
SaaS & Tech | 12.3 | 8.5 | 3.1 | 9.2 | 6.4 | 12,400 |
Finance & Banking | 82.1 | 74.5 | 45.3 | 68.2 | 61 | 3,100 |
E-Commerce | 38.6 | 29.8 | 11.2 | 24.5 | 18.9 | 15,600 |
Healthcare & Medical | 64.8 | 58.2 | 35.1 | 49.3 | 41.5 | 4,200 |
Travel & Hospitality | 42.1 | 33.4 | 14.5 | 28.9 | 21.3 | 4,500 |
Blogs & Personal Sites | 5.4 | 3.2 | 1 | 3.8 | 2.1 | 5,000 |
Global robots.txt AI Bot Blocking Statistics (2026)
Aggregated sector-by-sector statistical index of AI Crawler blocking policies (opt-out rate) based on analysis of robots.txt directives across 50,000 global target domains.
Published by Pixel Office EU.
Included Sectors
- News & Publishing
- SaaS & Tech
- Finance & Banking
- E-Commerce
- Healthcare & Medical
- Travel & Hospitality
- Blogs & Personal Sites
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Dataset Structure
sector: Industry category of analyzed websites.gptbot_blocked_pct: Percentage of sites blocking OpenAI'sGPTBot.claudebot_blocked_pct: Percentage of sites blocking Anthropic'sClaudeBot.perplexitybot_blocked_pct: Percentage of sites blockingPerplexityBot.google_extended_blocked_pct: Percentage of sites opting out of Google Gemini training (Google-Extended).meta_externalagent_blocked_pct: Percentage of sites blocking Meta'sMeta-ExternalAgent.sample_size: Total number of crawled domains in this sector.
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