Question 1

How do I check if AI bots can crawl my website?

Accepted Answer

Enter your domain on AgentPipe to instantly check which AI bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and others) can access your site. AgentPipe analyzes your robots.txt and tests actual bot access to give you a clear picture.

Question 2

What percentage of websites block AI crawlers?

Accepted Answer

Block rates vary by bot. Based on AgentPipe data from the top 1000 websites, GPTBot is blocked by a significant percentage of sites, while newer bots like ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot see different block rates. Check AgentPipe for current figures updated weekly.

Question 3

Which AI bot generates the most web crawl traffic?

Accepted Answer

AI bot traffic shares shift weekly. AgentPipe tracks crawl volumes from Cloudflare Radar data covering bots like GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Bytespider, Google-Extended, and others. Visit the Traffic tab for current rankings and 7-day trends.

Question 4

What are llms.txt and ai.txt standards?

Accepted Answer

llms.txt is a proposed standard for websites to communicate with LLM crawlers about what content they can use. ai.txt serves a similar purpose for AI agents more broadly. These complement robots.txt by providing AI-specific access policies. AgentPipe checks adoption of these standards across the web.

Question 5

How does AgentPipe differ from a regular robots.txt checker?

Accepted Answer

AgentPipe goes beyond robots.txt parsing. It checks access for specific AI bot user agents, compares your site against top websites, tracks historical blocking trends via the Wayback Machine, monitors AI standards adoption, and provides ecosystem-wide data on bot traffic shares and block rates.

Question 6

What data sources does AgentPipe use?

Accepted Answer

AgentPipe aggregates data from Cloudflare Radar (bot traffic volumes), Tranco Top Sites (top 1000 rankings), the Wayback Machine (historical robots.txt snapshots), Common Crawl, and direct domain analysis. Data is refreshed via daily cron jobs.

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